Well don't you enjoy feeling smug and superior? I joined an online dating site, met the woman who is now my wife, and together we acquired two cats. There's nothing wrong with online dating -- it's much more direct than joining random clubs to try to meet someone and there's nothing inherently superior about a relationship that started in a hiking club compared to one that started online. We know several other married couples who met online and all are happy and stable relationships.
That said, cell phone use while driving is dangerous, but comparing it to intoxication isn't useful.
Of course it's useful. There has been a decades long campaign to (successfully) convince people that driving while intoxicated is too dangerous to be acceptable behavior. Comparing other dangerous forms of driving (driving while under-slept, driving while talking on the cell phone) to DWI is an appropriate and effective way to communicate to people just how dangerous those activities are. People don't have good intuitive understanding of statistics, so (good) analogies can be more useful.
In either case, the genetics excuse for obesity is incompatible with the conservation of energy.
The genetics "excuse" appears to be factual. While it's of course true that energy is conserved, it's incomprehensibly harder for some people for some people to lose weight than others. Consider how much people want to lose weight. Then consider that over 90% of people who lose weight regain it plus more. At this point, I'm not sure it's fair to say that it's even possible for most people to lose weight and keep it off without surgery or some other means having choices regarding calories in and out taken away from them.
I guess what I'm saying is that, in theory, eating less than you burn will make you lose weight. In practice, eating less than you burn is either impossible or extraordinarily difficult (much more difficult than people like you believe) for a majority of overweight people.
Exactly. They tried to create a feature that the software did not support, and they did so in a manner that broke the software.
Except that the software didn't break well. It should have either reported that the action wasn't allowed or calculated correctly. It shouldn't look like it's working but give erroneous results. If a single block with a hole isn't supported, why are you allowed to select it?
Every other religion of the world must be treated respectfully, though.
Do you know why liberals criticise the US and Christianity more than other countries and other religions? Because criticizing "the other" is already taken care of 15x over. Duh, Saddam's bad, but we do bad stuff too. The conservatives aren't going to say it. Islam has a lot of bad, but so does Christianity. Again, you'll hear a lot of the former from talk radio, but little of the latter. That's why the liberals speak ill of Christianity.
They're trying to balance out the moronic, black-and-white Conservative Christian view of the world which is so prevalent.
The discovery of aliens would not shake my religious foundation one bit.
That's a shocker. What would shake it?
On one side, you have the atheists, who think science can replace religion.
Atheists don't believe in God. We aren't (as a whole) trying to "replace" religion, we just don't believe it's factually accurate. Science isn't a replacement for religion anyway. It's just a way of figuring out the truth (while acknowleding it can always be wrong.)
Often I'll look up from one of my screens and realize that my entire body is tense and I haven't taken a full breath in what must be a couple of hours. Between sitting at a computer all day, listening to the radio in my car, and turning the t.v. on at home, I can often spend an entire day under technology's spell. Every now and then I'll come up out of the technotrance and just sit or putter around for a couple of hours with all of the post-lightbulb inventions switched off and feel myself returning to the real world.
It seems I must unplug myself for at least a few hours a day to recharge.
"There always has to be a universal moral ground to fall back on."
Have you ever noticed that everyone who claims that there is a universal morality happens to believe said universal morality exactly coincides with their own morality? Just because you say it's universal doesn't make it so. As you point out, Hitler may have thought it was right. Therefore, by definition, the morality cannot be universal. When people talk about universal morality, they usually just mean that they personally are so sure of their morality that it must be universal.
It could listen but not record until it hears the word "Computer," spoken with a distinct intonation. But yeah, if you're being mic'ed, it's hard to guarantee that nobody's recording it.
There are times when we know the location of a target (e.g. Saddam, a nuke on a truck, etc.) but can't guarantee it's going to sit around for 10 hours waiting for the bombers.
"They are drawn from the citizens, which is the usual mire of good and bad."
Well, they're not drawn randomly. They self-draw. And the ones who decide to become cops are often people who have an unhealthy craving for power and violence. And usually a simplistic good vs. evil belief system to boot.
If you don't believe me, check out the statistics (sorry can't find 'em right now) about how much more likely police officers are likely to abuse their spouses than the average citizen.
For me, running is meditative. If I run in a nice place (e.g., a trail in the woods) than after a short bit I start naturally breathing in rythm to my footfalls and I just feel happy. If you don't like running though, maybe you're the sort who'd like competitive sports instead. (I like both.) You can of course find "competitive" sports at any level of talent -- you don't have to be skilled to play, just find other people of similar, or close enough, skill. Raquetball, basketball, roller hockey, whatever.
Calling atheism a religion is like calling not-collecting-stamps a hobby. Or, more appropriately, like calling not-believing-in-superstition a superstition.
I think I may have caused (or contributed to) my RSI problems by doing push-ups and the like without exercising the opposite back muscles. It tends to make your chest tighter, compressing nerves and blood vessels.
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Well don't you enjoy feeling smug and superior? I joined an online dating site, met the woman who is now my wife, and together we acquired two cats. There's nothing wrong with online dating -- it's much more direct than joining random clubs to try to meet someone and there's nothing inherently superior about a relationship that started in a hiking club compared to one that started online. We know several other married couples who met online and all are happy and stable relationships.
That said, cell phone use while driving is dangerous, but comparing it to intoxication isn't useful. Of course it's useful. There has been a decades long campaign to (successfully) convince people that driving while intoxicated is too dangerous to be acceptable behavior. Comparing other dangerous forms of driving (driving while under-slept, driving while talking on the cell phone) to DWI is an appropriate and effective way to communicate to people just how dangerous those activities are. People don't have good intuitive understanding of statistics, so (good) analogies can be more useful.
Great comment.
Agreed. I have one at the office and one at home. They can be found for around $800 and they're worth every penny.
In either case, the genetics excuse for obesity is incompatible with the conservation of energy. The genetics "excuse" appears to be factual. While it's of course true that energy is conserved, it's incomprehensibly harder for some people for some people to lose weight than others. Consider how much people want to lose weight. Then consider that over 90% of people who lose weight regain it plus more. At this point, I'm not sure it's fair to say that it's even possible for most people to lose weight and keep it off without surgery or some other means having choices regarding calories in and out taken away from them. I guess what I'm saying is that, in theory, eating less than you burn will make you lose weight. In practice, eating less than you burn is either impossible or extraordinarily difficult (much more difficult than people like you believe) for a majority of overweight people.
Except that the software didn't break well. It should have either reported that the action wasn't allowed or calculated correctly. It shouldn't look like it's working but give erroneous results. If a single block with a hole isn't supported, why are you allowed to select it?
Every other religion of the world must be treated respectfully, though.
Do you know why liberals criticise the US and Christianity more than other countries and other religions? Because criticizing "the other" is already taken care of 15x over. Duh, Saddam's bad, but we do bad stuff too. The conservatives aren't going to say it. Islam has a lot of bad, but so does Christianity. Again, you'll hear a lot of the former from talk radio, but little of the latter. That's why the liberals speak ill of Christianity.
They're trying to balance out the moronic, black-and-white Conservative Christian view of the world which is so prevalent.
The discovery of aliens would not shake my religious foundation one bit.
That's a shocker. What would shake it?
On one side, you have the atheists, who think science can replace religion.
Atheists don't believe in God. We aren't (as a whole) trying to "replace" religion, we just don't believe it's factually accurate. Science isn't a replacement for religion anyway. It's just a way of figuring out the truth (while acknowleding it can always be wrong.)
seems to me that what the OSS community need is designer willing to work for free... ...or somebody willing to pay the designer.
Often I'll look up from one of my screens and realize that my entire body is tense and I haven't taken a full breath in what must be a couple of hours. Between sitting at a computer all day, listening to the radio in my car, and turning the t.v. on at home, I can often spend an entire day under technology's spell. Every now and then I'll come up out of the technotrance and just sit or putter around for a couple of hours with all of the post-lightbulb inventions switched off and feel myself returning to the real world.
It seems I must unplug myself for at least a few hours a day to recharge.
"There always has to be a universal moral ground to fall back on."
Have you ever noticed that everyone who claims that there is a universal morality happens to believe said universal morality exactly coincides with their own morality? Just because you say it's universal doesn't make it so. As you point out, Hitler may have thought it was right. Therefore, by definition, the morality cannot be universal. When people talk about universal morality, they usually just mean that they personally are so sure of their morality that it must be universal.
It could listen but not record until it hears the word "Computer," spoken with a distinct intonation. But yeah, if you're being mic'ed, it's hard to guarantee that nobody's recording it.
There are times when we know the location of a target (e.g. Saddam, a nuke on a truck, etc.) but can't guarantee it's going to sit around for 10 hours waiting for the bombers.
"They are drawn from the citizens, which is the usual mire of good and bad."
Well, they're not drawn randomly. They self-draw. And the ones who decide to become cops are often people who have an unhealthy craving for power and violence. And usually a simplistic good vs. evil belief system to boot.
If you don't believe me, check out the statistics (sorry can't find 'em right now) about how much more likely police officers are likely to abuse their spouses than the average citizen.
"It's totally arbitrary."
It's been argued that widescreen more closely resembles our natural visual field, what with having two eyes side-by-side.
Hey I love Go, but anybody who calls chess "a trivial game" shouldn't be modded insightful. :-)
We can't even prove that we have free will.
For me, running is meditative. If I run in a nice place (e.g., a trail in the woods) than after a short bit I start naturally breathing in rythm to my footfalls and I just feel happy. If you don't like running though, maybe you're the sort who'd like competitive sports instead. (I like both.) You can of course find "competitive" sports at any level of talent -- you don't have to be skilled to play, just find other people of similar, or close enough, skill. Raquetball, basketball, roller hockey, whatever.
We'll stop when conservative leaders stop pandering to extremist christians.
Actually, it's easy to say. Statistically speaking, white does significantly (~5%?) better than black.
"Redundant RAID" is redundant. :) Sorry.
"Atheism is a religion..."
Calling atheism a religion is like calling not-collecting-stamps a hobby. Or, more appropriately, like calling not-believing-in-superstition a superstition.
I think I may have caused (or contributed to) my RSI problems by doing push-ups and the like without exercising the opposite back muscles. It tends to make your chest tighter, compressing nerves and blood vessels.
Not a sermon, just a thought.
"Ever notice that /.'ers get excited about DVDs and not new albums? RIAA, START PAYING ATTENTION."
Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the easier availability and storage of mp3s than DVD-quality movies.
You're new here, aren't you?