It's even more annoying, considering a judge threw out my case against my city's bus service. I was splashed in the face by a puddle in the bus station, where I was picking up some hookers. Next day: BAM. Herpes.
Well, genital herpes has an incubation period of 2-20 days (according to some random internet site that I found on Google, so it must be right), and that means you got herpes from the puddle that splashed you the previous day to the one you claimed... or up to 17 days earlier than that.
So I would be checking which puddles splashed you during the 3 weeks before the incident you reported, and make sure that they also know they have herpes.
Oh, and you lost your case for perfectly sound reasons. You blamed the wrong puddle.
PS: didn't your momma warn you about hanging around the wrong type of puddle?
can any of the americans explain this to us here ?
As an American, no i can't. We the public did not create this, have no say in this and have nothing to do with this. I wouldn't even know where to send a strongly worded letter to.
It is actually easy: government of the media, by the media, for the media.
That is why our form of government is called mediocrity.
A job is better than prison which is the closest analog to the current school system.
The crime is "immaturity".
The teachers are the wardens.
The object is control, until they have served their time and are old enough to be released into adult society.
The schools contain dull-looking buildings and perimeter fences. Breakouts are not allowed (truancy).
Yep. The prison analogy occurred to me when I was studying Education years ago. They were suggesting things like "garden" (a gardener watering the plants) or "jug" (empty vessel being passively filled with knowledge). I thought "prison".
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All general statements are false.
But some are more false than others. (Thank you, George Orwell)
My daughter reports that smoking is common at her university.
Smarter people are still susceptible to stupid fashions.
And averages are only an indication of tendencies, not absolute differences - there are plenty of people with above average IQs who smoke. Smoking is simply a _bit less_ common among the more intelligent than it is among the less intelligent.
I hope someone is working on a Javascript port of the Linux kernel. I would love to know that Linux can run in my browser.
Then we go recursive: Linux runs in a browser, which runs in Linux, which runs in a browser, which runs in Linux... and it would be Linux and browsers all the way down.
From the MIT article: "they found that the subjects' ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding of other people's intentions".
They don't appear to have claimed a general change to moral judgments of all types. They're saying that people were less able to make moral judgments that involved modeling someone else's internal state.
What it sounds like to me is, someone found humanity's Asperger switch.
You are almost right. The researchers on this project (who have spoken at TED talks) mention that it is about juries, not criminals. It is how we judge other people's behaviour, not how we choose to act ourselves.
People with Asperger's syndrome typically have difficulty understanding feelings (their own and other people's), but not difficulty making moral judgments, as far as I am aware.
So not the Asperger's switch. The jury's switch, however.
If we put democracy on hold, who is to say that it will be the fair-minded scientists that take over and rule the planet?
It just might be the climate-deniers who take over.
After all, in the absence of democracy, whoever has the most power to forcibly take control is the new leader this week. That is why dictatorships keep changing leaders until the most despicable available person gains control.
It is survival of the meanest. (Think Saddam Hussein)
And the future of the planet will take a distant second place to the new leader maintaining control at all costs.
However, I would like to greet our new scientific overlords - for as long they manage to stick around...
Have you ever tried to use an operating system without a built-in html renderer? Or a built-in filesystem browser?
Why yes. For the last 13 years I have been using Linux. After the bare OS installs, without even a lynx or a links2, I install x11, then...
apt-get install... um will I try iceweasel or another browser? konqueror? that gnome browser thingy? links2???? Nothing is "built in". The OS couldn't care less whether I had a browser or not.
The OS doesn't need a browser. I happen to like them, so I install one from the Debian repository - you don't need a browser to pull one down from the web - apt does that quite well.
Browsers are not at all integrated into the OS. Plenty of servers at my work have no browser (or GUI) whatsoever. Why does a server _need_ a browser or GUI?
You seem to be caught up in the Windows monoculture.
I find spending more than a couple of minutes on Facebook mind-numbingly boring.
As for the games and stuff, anyone who spams my account with their game results gets hidden from sight ever after.
Facebook is a huge yawn. It is vaguely OK as a bulletin board for catching up with a few close friends and relatives, but that's it. I don't want to be contacted by people that I haven't been interested enough to contact for the last thirty years. I am not interested in games, or endless mindless thoughts about the piece of cake you just ate, etc etc.
The issue you miss is: Microsoft leapt ahead of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect when they brought out Windows 3. Excel on Windows 2 and MS Word for DOS were behind the leaders in their markets. The emergence of Windows 3.11 as a viable platform for business use gave the Microsoft products a competitive advantage. They were ready for the new environment (Lotus and WordPerfect were not) and they could keep ahead of the competition because they now owned both the OS/GUI and the office suite - a situation that has kept them on top ever since.
You might say that Lotus and WordPerfect bungled the transition. And Microsoft exploited their new market position as (integrated) supplier of OS (DOS), GUI (Windows on top of DOS), and office applications - something they have done well in other markets too (e.g. taking over the browser market from Netscape).
Microsoft's power is based on the mutual strength of Windows and Office, and further back on DOS as the launching pad for the other two. But Windows and Office are the killer combination - so much so that the average user often has difficulty telling them apart.
Hearing this news saddened me at first, then it angered me into action. I've setup an online donation fund here. With a small $50 weekly donation from 30 or 40 million of you, Bill can continue to live the kind of life he's used to. Won't somebody think of Bill Gate's children!
Too late. Bill has already set up an online donation fund for that very purpose here.
Isn't there some law that says you have to put these kinds of films on YouTube? Anyway, there ought to be.
You cannot just announce that a really influential film was made and not put it on YouTube. That's unfair. It's like eating a chocolate bar in front of your friends and refusing to share it.
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It's even more annoying, considering a judge threw out my case against my city's bus service. I was splashed in the face by a puddle in the bus station, where I was picking up some hookers. Next day: BAM. Herpes.
Well, genital herpes has an incubation period of 2-20 days (according to some random internet site that I found on Google, so it must be right), and that means you got herpes from the puddle that splashed you the previous day to the one you claimed ... or up to 17 days earlier than that.
So I would be checking which puddles splashed you during the 3 weeks before the incident you reported, and make sure that they also know they have herpes.
Oh, and you lost your case for perfectly sound reasons. You blamed the wrong puddle.
PS: didn't your momma warn you about hanging around the wrong type of puddle?
can any of the americans explain this to us here ?
As an American, no i can't. We the public did not create this, have no say in this and have nothing to do with this. I wouldn't even know where to send a strongly worded letter to.
It is actually easy: government of the media, by the media, for the media.
That is why our form of government is called mediocrity.
A job is better than prison which is the closest analog to the current school system.
The crime is "immaturity".
The teachers are the wardens.
The object is control, until they have served their time and are old enough to be released into adult society.
The schools contain dull-looking buildings and perimeter fences. Breakouts are not allowed (truancy).
Yep. The prison analogy occurred to me when I was studying Education years ago. They were suggesting things like "garden" (a gardener watering the plants) or "jug" (empty vessel being passively filled with knowledge). I thought "prison".
All general statements are false.
But some are more false than others. (Thank you, George Orwell)
I am still trying to picture a spiritual game.
Do you steer a character up into the mountains to assume the Lotus position and meditate on the oneness of the world?
Are you attacked by demons, but instead of shooting them (Doom) you cast them out with prayer (obviously a movie spin-off from The Exorcist)?
Do you pass through increasingly higher levels of virtue as your avatar accumulates Love, Peace, Hope, etc?
It is an interesting idea anyway - spiritual enlightenment through game playing: the 21st century religion.
My daughter reports that smoking is common at her university.
Smarter people are still susceptible to stupid fashions.
And averages are only an indication of tendencies, not absolute differences - there are plenty of people with above average IQs who smoke. Smoking is simply a _bit less_ common among the more intelligent than it is among the less intelligent.
It also varies considerably by nationality.
I hope someone is working on a Javascript port of the Linux kernel. I would love to know that Linux can run in my browser.
Then we go recursive: Linux runs in a browser, which runs in Linux, which runs in a browser, which runs in Linux ... and it would be Linux and browsers all the way down.
From the MIT article: "they found that the subjects' ability to make moral judgments that require an understanding of other people's intentions".
They don't appear to have claimed a general change to moral judgments of all types. They're saying that people were less able to make moral judgments that involved modeling someone else's internal state.
What it sounds like to me is, someone found humanity's Asperger switch.
You are almost right. The researchers on this project (who have spoken at TED talks) mention that it is about juries, not criminals. It is how we judge other people's behaviour, not how we choose to act ourselves.
People with Asperger's syndrome typically have difficulty understanding feelings (their own and other people's), but not difficulty making moral judgments, as far as I am aware.
So not the Asperger's switch. The jury's switch, however.
Abolish elections and select your legislatures by random sampling of the population.
That completely undermines parties as well as saving the huge costs of elections and the corruption of election financing by big corporations.
If we put democracy on hold, who is to say that it will be the fair-minded scientists that take over and rule the planet?
It just might be the climate-deniers who take over.
After all, in the absence of democracy, whoever has the most power to forcibly take control is the new leader this week. That is why dictatorships keep changing leaders until the most despicable available person gains control.
It is survival of the meanest. (Think Saddam Hussein)
And the future of the planet will take a distant second place to the new leader maintaining control at all costs.
However, I would like to greet our new scientific overlords - for as long they manage to stick around ...
Just spend all your work time on Slashdot, and keep Facebook etc for home. They'll never think of looking here.
Correlation is not causation. Facebook usage may correlate, but doesn't cause it.
"Don't drink and park. Accidents make people."
Of course Facebook usage doesn't cause it.
It is when they stop using Facebook (and the whole computer) that causes it.
No need to shave or change clothes.
A man's paradise.
He just finds bits of old reactors in bins at Harvard...
Now if there could just be a "Pick your OS" pull-down on first boot ...
I felt a strange disturbance in the MSForce when you wrote that.
It was as though a thousand Redmond executives cried out in pain...
Have you ever tried to use an operating system without a built-in html renderer? Or a built-in filesystem browser?
Why yes. For the last 13 years I have been using Linux. After the bare OS installs, without even a lynx or a links2, I install x11, then ...
apt-get install ... um will I try iceweasel or another browser? konqueror? that gnome browser thingy? links2???? Nothing is "built in". The OS couldn't care less whether I had a browser or not.
The OS doesn't need a browser. I happen to like them, so I install one from the Debian repository - you don't need a browser to pull one down from the web - apt does that quite well.
Browsers are not at all integrated into the OS. Plenty of servers at my work have no browser (or GUI) whatsoever. Why does a server _need_ a browser or GUI?
You seem to be caught up in the Windows monoculture.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
Having root access, I had already added
+arsenic
to the file /etc/print/tea.conf
Just think of the clear skin you will have.
I find spending more than a couple of minutes on Facebook mind-numbingly boring.
As for the games and stuff, anyone who spams my account with their game results gets hidden from sight ever after.
Facebook is a huge yawn. It is vaguely OK as a bulletin board for catching up with a few close friends and relatives, but that's it. I don't want to be contacted by people that I haven't been interested enough to contact for the last thirty years. I am not interested in games, or endless mindless thoughts about the piece of cake you just ate, etc etc.
UUUUGGGHHH!
but presumably they excite the system into a superposition
The last time I suggested exciting someone's system into a superposition, I got slapped.
I would stay away from C/C++. In the hands of novices in a timed activity, I would wager it would be more trouble than it's worth.
Who knows? There might be a prize for getting the biggest memory leak.
The issue you miss is: Microsoft leapt ahead of Lotus 1-2-3 and WordPerfect when they brought out Windows 3. Excel on Windows 2 and MS Word for DOS were behind the leaders in their markets. The emergence of Windows 3.11 as a viable platform for business use gave the Microsoft products a competitive advantage. They were ready for the new environment (Lotus and WordPerfect were not) and they could keep ahead of the competition because they now owned both the OS/GUI and the office suite - a situation that has kept them on top ever since.
You might say that Lotus and WordPerfect bungled the transition. And Microsoft exploited their new market position as (integrated) supplier of OS (DOS), GUI (Windows on top of DOS), and office applications - something they have done well in other markets too (e.g. taking over the browser market from Netscape).
Microsoft's power is based on the mutual strength of Windows and Office, and further back on DOS as the launching pad for the other two. But Windows and Office are the killer combination - so much so that the average user often has difficulty telling them apart.
(a) And what exactly does methane turn into as it floats around in the atmosphere?
(b) You're correct - oxidation of one CH4 molecule produces one CO2 molecule and two H2O molecules.
Carbon dioxide and water?
Hey, that's carbonated water! So the by-product of this is lots of cheap sodas for everyone!
Well then, we should keep deforesting the entire planet.
Don't worry. We are.
Hearing this news saddened me at first, then it angered me into action. I've setup an online donation fund here. With a small $50 weekly donation from 30 or 40 million of you, Bill can continue to live the kind of life he's used to. Won't somebody think of Bill Gate's children!
Too late. Bill has already set up an online donation fund for that very purpose here.
Isn't there some law that says you have to put these kinds of films on YouTube? Anyway, there ought to be.
You cannot just announce that a really influential film was made and not put it on YouTube. That's unfair. It's like eating a chocolate bar in front of your friends and refusing to share it.