Well, you can also move the most to the bottom left corner of the screen and hope you don't move off it enough that it disappears before you can click it...
That's the thing. "Genius" in this context is taken to be based on output known to the greatest number of people. Which is a bullshit metric and denigrates those who aren't fortunate enough to get individually famous. Take Teflon for instance. "Invented" by DuPont and world famous. Not "discovered by a research chemist" whose name (Roy Plunkett) is only known by those who take the trouble to look at the Wikipedia entry and / or take part in pub quizzes. And at least he got famous in his field with awards.
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Professor Hawking has better than a Nobel prize (given out all the time). He holds the Lucasian chair of mathematics, as Newton did. *That's* the real prize.
The only reason I keep US layout on my home laptop is because I have no idea where the \ key goes when I switch to UK layout. I don't think there is a key mapped to it. Having Cyrillic chars listed as well on the key caps doesn't help matters either though it is encouraging me to learn Russian...
There's also the "needs an audience" aspect as well. That is so fucked up. What kind of sick society are you that you *volunteer* to watch someone die in orchestrated theatre? Yet you rail against tits on TV.
Considering that Coventry was pretty much erased from the map (hence the revenge bombing of Dresden, subject to much hand-wringing in hindsight) I'd say it was quite accurate.
I venture that he thought the automation would result in more people who, while more than intelligent enough for the jobs that are replaced by it, lack the intellectual capacity for thought, insight and philosophy to further the human species that is usually the preserve of high academia. As such we have an increasing population who exist on a diet of "reality" TV and planet-wide self-promotion of irrelevant detail of their lives because they don't know what to do with all this extra free time.
From the viewpoint of someone who doesn't use Facebook, take selfies when pissed, pictures of cats or what I am about to eat (or, worse, an empty plate) for all to "enjoy" it is disheartening.
You do know the other side is the "you'll burn in hell" brigade don't you? Not to get all schoolyard but they started with the unreasonableness and offensive language.
Looking through the posts the general consensus is SF with the Bible thrown in as a token gesture "just because" and the usual dystopian suspects of nineteen eighty four / Brave New World. Some have tried with Kerouac / Hemingway. IMO you lot should read more and not just the stuff that gets made into movies (or you'd *like* to be).
The problem is the age range. It's too broad to ask this question and get decent answers. It needs breaking down into different age groups (there's nothing wrong with Beatrix Potter for the 2yo for instance)
So ethics is only for those who don't use strong language to denote their dislike of a loud-mouthed minority enforcing their blinkered view upon the populace? Nice.
The likelihood of recurrence is at the discretion of the police. Guess what they'll go for if you don't scarper when ordered even if you aren't doing anything wrong (and technically don't have to).
Perhaps you missed the bit where Tony Blair decreed that all offences are arrestable. Any arrest gets you a criminal record (as does a caution, Section 27 dispersal notice, etc.) but there is still discretion as to whether you do get arrested for something minor due to the paperwork involved...
That's because after every chapter you're hoping the book will keep the tagline promise ("OK, maybe the *next* chapter will tell me what I want to know") only to find at the end that it doesn't.
Big assumption: BitCoin is a currency. If it is then it is confiscated as proceeds of illegal acts. If it isn't then it is an asset, just like converting dollars into works of art, shares, et alia and is *not* confiscated except as means of paying fines. They can't have it both ways.
That BitCoin is "presented" as a currency is immaterial (pun intended) as it can also be "presented" as barter.
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That or she thinks that Obama is Spock where the needs (and wants) of the one outweigh the needs of the many...
Well, you can also move the most to the bottom left corner of the screen and hope you don't move off it enough that it disappears before you can click it...
That's the thing. "Genius" in this context is taken to be based on output known to the greatest number of people. Which is a bullshit metric and denigrates those who aren't fortunate enough to get individually famous. Take Teflon for instance. "Invented" by DuPont and world famous. Not "discovered by a research chemist" whose name (Roy Plunkett) is only known by those who take the trouble to look at the Wikipedia entry and / or take part in pub quizzes. And at least he got famous in his field with awards.
Professor Hawking has better than a Nobel prize (given out all the time). He holds the Lucasian chair of mathematics, as Newton did. *That's* the real prize.
Everybody with a keyboard in Windows 8...
Turning the proprietary mats 90 when leaving the Sun lab at uni caught out so many people it never got old...
Is it me out does the degree sign only appear in textareas on Android?
The only reason I keep US layout on my home laptop is because I have no idea where the \ key goes when I switch to UK layout. I don't think there is a key mapped to it. Having Cyrillic chars listed as well on the key caps doesn't help matters either though it is encouraging me to learn Russian...
At first I was "huh? How can you douse water?"
Then I realised you meant *dowse*...
There's also the "needs an audience" aspect as well. That is so fucked up. What kind of sick society are you that you *volunteer* to watch someone die in orchestrated theatre? Yet you rail against tits on TV.
Assange didn't have a choice after the password to the archive was printed in a book *by the Guardian* for all to see...
"An empty threat, sir. Why do you think I'm on traffic duty in the first place?"
Considering that Coventry was pretty much erased from the map (hence the revenge bombing of Dresden, subject to much hand-wringing in hindsight) I'd say it was quite accurate.
*cough* Nostradamus *cough*
I venture that he thought the automation would result in more people who, while more than intelligent enough for the jobs that are replaced by it, lack the intellectual capacity for thought, insight and philosophy to further the human species that is usually the preserve of high academia. As such we have an increasing population who exist on a diet of "reality" TV and planet-wide self-promotion of irrelevant detail of their lives because they don't know what to do with all this extra free time.
From the viewpoint of someone who doesn't use Facebook, take selfies when pissed, pictures of cats or what I am about to eat (or, worse, an empty plate) for all to "enjoy" it is disheartening.
You do know the other side is the "you'll burn in hell" brigade don't you? Not to get all schoolyard but they started with the unreasonableness and offensive language.
Looking through the posts the general consensus is SF with the Bible thrown in as a token gesture "just because" and the usual dystopian suspects of nineteen eighty four / Brave New World. Some have tried with Kerouac / Hemingway. IMO you lot should read more and not just the stuff that gets made into movies (or you'd *like* to be).
The problem is the age range. It's too broad to ask this question and get decent answers. It needs breaking down into different age groups (there's nothing wrong with Beatrix Potter for the 2yo for instance)
The Girl In The Swing is a better Richard Adams book. It's not for kids though.
Henry Williamson and John Fowles should get a mention too.
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And so is prostate cancer. Not many women get that. What was your point again?
So ethics is only for those who don't use strong language to denote their dislike of a loud-mouthed minority enforcing their blinkered view upon the populace? Nice.
The likelihood of recurrence is at the discretion of the police. Guess what they'll go for if you don't scarper when ordered even if you aren't doing anything wrong (and technically don't have to).
Was that a while ago? I only ask as *all* offences are arrestable nowadays.
Perhaps you missed the bit where Tony Blair decreed that all offences are arrestable. Any arrest gets you a criminal record (as does a caution, Section 27 dispersal notice, etc.) but there is still discretion as to whether you do get arrested for something minor due to the paperwork involved...
"Everyone who starts it finishes it"
That's because after every chapter you're hoping the book will keep the tagline promise ("OK, maybe the *next* chapter will tell me what I want to know") only to find at the end that it doesn't.
Big assumption: BitCoin is a currency. If it is then it is confiscated as proceeds of illegal acts. If it isn't then it is an asset, just like converting dollars into works of art, shares, et alia and is *not* confiscated except as means of paying fines. They can't have it both ways.
That BitCoin is "presented" as a currency is immaterial (pun intended) as it can also be "presented" as barter.