sure it's a 5% improvement. having one class that's fundamentally different than all the others is a memory aid. of course.
but honestly, if all of your courses -- I had 7 at a time -- had an hour lecture for me to watch at home, would you watch 7 hours of lecture videos on your own? with no ability to interupt and ask for a clarification?
this just totally removes any concept of humans teaching humans. now it's about students learning on their own, and being corrected by teachers. sure it'll work, that's how business management and supervision works. it requires dedicated devotion. it's not something that students have any interest in doing.
if you're not going to teach me, I was always able to learn on my own. I never needed you to supervise the learning process.
so I can't lend my keys to a friend. and when I have had too much to drink, even if I'm still within legal limits, I can't let my sober friend drive. and I can't drive my own car whenever my brain waves -- which ain't under my control -- are unusual. So if I'm the wrong kind of sick, or if I'm scared, or if I'm in love. If I'm nervous, or if I just lost my job or if my wife is in labour, or if I just learned that she's pregnant, or if my child is injured, or just about any emergency situation that I internalize emotionally.
And in the end, like all electronic locking measures, they don't actually control the engine, they only control the power button, or the key. Which means that it can be bypassed.
Memories, techniques, and ideas come with heirlooms, tools, and inspirations. Those are the things which represent the non-things. They support the non-things.
Growing up through childhood, with no inspiration, results in a young adult who has no idea what he wants to do. Contrast that with a young adult who's been staring at his great grandfathers' sculptures for 10 years. Or his sportscar for 16 years. Or his sextant since before he knew what it even was.
Getting someone started in life isn't about money. It's about the drive to improve something.
If you want them to succeed in life with an education, then you'll also need to provide a time travel machine so they can go back to when an education actually paid dollars. It doesn't anymore.
But you can do, if you really value their future, is to sell your home now, and buy a large piece of land outside of the city for the same price. A farm, a country house, whatever. By the time they grow up, the city will have expanded, and that land will be worth a fortune. If they've been farming on it, you'll have given them free food, a strong work ethic, safe food, and a family life-style without commuting, horrible bosses, deadlines, and abstract craziness. They'll have it all and money too. The government will give them all sorts of tax incentives so their life costs will be much lower than everyone else's too. And as a farm, they'll be paid more to sell it. Much more.
SAcred family relics that aren't to be touched are boring. There's nothing wrong with wearing out heirlooms, as long as you're creating new ones of your own. But if you can't afford to produce any relics, and you're just another human of the times, then congratulations you've done nothing in life but replaced yourself. That's seriously uncool.
I've got four giant wooden cabinet speakers from my grandfather's father. They may or may not still work, but they make great end-tables. I'm currently using them as nightstands by the bed, which makes it look like I've spent about six thousand dollars to wire the bedroom for sound.
I've got two very old record players from two disparate grandparents. My parents wanted to sell/chuck them. I insisted on taking them. Whereas women would have nick-knacks and porcelan dolls and bowls of wicker balls lying around, I have old fashioned record players as my nick-knacks.
My first-ever remote-controlled car, from when I was eight, that I built and painted my self is around. I also have a four foot tall cast bronze statue of anubis as the first piece of art that I ever purchased. I've got a few '80's lightshow things -- like those borg-style circles and an infinity box. I also have an eleven foot wide solid wood desk that I had custom built by a dining-room table company, that will easily last for the next 200 years. It can be a desk, a boardroom table, or a dining room table for many generations to come.
It's not about what one person would want. If you're a normal family, then by the time you die there are at least 10 people below you -- children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, neices, nephews, and cousins. Heck, some of my friends have close to 50 hundred younger relatives, and one has nearly 100.
You're saying that of my 10, no one will want a big solid wood desk for anything? Or no one will want two giant 150 year-old speakers? No one will like my record of baby belluga in the deep blue sea? Swims so wild and swims so free. Heaven above and the sea below and the little white whale on the go.
Or perhaps you're specifically talking about my sports car. The engine's good for 800'000km, and I've only put on 100'000km thus far. I take care of it. I've modded it to add scissor-doors. My next mod may be equally interesting. You're saying that my nephew won't want a sports car for his 16th birthday? Perhaps with a self-driving module installed? Or a hover-upgrade?
20% is a great starting point. Of the many many many things that a person could be, 20% is by far the majority.
And as I just said, I've got 20 neighbours, 5 of whom are crap as people, one of whom stole from us, and one of whom still owes me money. All 5 are the same colour.
You've got your citation -- this thread. Cite this. This is first-hand information. If you want actual proof, I'll happily introduce you to my neighbours. You can bring a calculator.
So, have you ever inherited anything? Do you have a book that your grandfather used to read? A record player? A record collection? One record? What about a video tape? A car? A tvision? A set of speaker?
So if you rent your furniture, and your home, and lease your car, and your tvision doesn't last more than 5 years, and your speakers aren't worth more than a few dollars, then what exactly do you give to your children? What gets handed down?
I know, just the words: "I've got nothing, you're on your own from scratch."
Enjoy. But I like to have things that represent me; taken as a set, no one else would ever have them. And most items, aren't owned by more than a handful of people.
But if the only things you use are things that millions of others use too -- iphones, the most popular books, only the most popular movies -- then congrats, you stand out like a chinese person with a chinese phone in china. Hello kitty.
And by the way, that library of over 100'000 books...how many of them are public domain anyway? Oh yeah. Project Gutenberg. Oh yeah. Been reading on a computer for decades. Oh yeah. Just a cash grab. Oh yeah.
Everything is harmful to society. Not recycling is harmful to society. Recycling is harmful to society. Competitg for a promotion hurts everyone who doesn't get it.
I'm allowed to hurt people. People hurt me all the time. I'm allowed to insult people, swear at people, give them the finger. I can be rude, vulgar, and obscene.
I can't threaten to do them any bodily harm. But it's perfectly fine for me to threaten to do them financial harm.
I can't cause anyone to bleed (with rare unintentional exception). But I can make the world more dangerous at my discretion.
Racism isn't a problem so long as those on the receiving end aren't restricted from their own freedoms. I can call you dirty, I can refuse to hire you as an employee of my private company. I can keep you out of my private club. I can never invite you to my birthday parties. I simply can't stop you from buying the house on my street -- although I can convince the seller not to sell to you. And I can certainly choose to not let you buy my house, no matter how much you're willing to pay over my asking price.
Welcome to competition and personal preference. If you want to be my friend, you get to earn it. If I want to start you at a disadvantage, that's my business, it's actually not yours.
And, more importantly, racism doesn't come from nowhere, it comes from stereotypes. Stereotypes don't come out of nowhere either. They come from other people's experiences. I'd argue that most stereotypes tend to be correct about 20% of the time. That makes them a pretty good starting-point for most new encounters. I'd be stupid to maintain someone else's stereotype when given evidence to the contrary, but I'd be equally stupid to ignore the advice of others.
And when a given stereotype seems to consistent with my own experiences, I'd be damn foolish to ignore my own observations. I'd it'd be mean of me to not share my observations with my friends and family.
You want people to not be racist against you? Bake them a cake.
You know, there are many neighbours on my street. And I can tell you how many of them say hi to me, aggregated by the colour of their skin. I can also tell you which ones actually refused my gifts. I can also tell you which ones didn't participate in helping build fences for ten neighbours -- even when they were one of those neighbours. And I can tell you which ones actually stole our wood and made it more difficult. I can also tell you which ones didn't pay for their share of the fences and which ones stopped answering their doors when I came looking for his promissed-payment.
Clearly, those colours aren't interested in contradicting the opinions of others -- instead, they swiftly confirm those opinions.
So, do you want me to still say that colour doesn't affect how they pay their bills? I've got 20 neighbours involved in fences, and the 10 who refused to pay someone they owed are two colours that are different from then 10 who paid right away.
Let me clarify. In those cases, I'm a racist, but it's not "Racism" with a capital R -- it's not illegal. It's not criminal. And it's not something to be resolved.
It's not racism to avoid someone, and it's not racism to choose someone else. It's only racism if what you're doing hurts, stifles, or restricts the freedoms of someone. I can choose not to buy that house, or not to take those streets, or not to patron that restaurant. It's not racist. It's me having a preference.
So if I don't like greeks, and hence don't want to pay greek owners of a greek restaurant, I don't eat there, and it's not racist. If I picket the restaurant and stop others from going there and ask my political representative to tear down that restaurant, then that's racism.
Greeks have the right to not be hindered by my preferences. They don't have any right to my money. See the difference?
(Incidentally, I love greek food, and recently found two fantastically greek-family restaurants in Oshawa and in Whitby.)
Yes, and general psychology can also predict what a person would choose on a given image -- i.e. what they consider foreground.
Good news, we have a dumb solution to the problem. "Your gesture must include at least one background element, one foreground element, and one circle."
It's a thread about data privacy and ownership, not low profiles. I've no problem with the opinions that I publish being known. I've problems with the opinions that I don't publish being known.
If you aren't willing to put your name to your opinions, then I don't need to help you with your request.
I would have argued that buying a static ip on most isp's tends to jump you out of residential class in the first place. but in any event, that's not my concern. I'm not in the U.S.A., and I know nothing of the poster's isp.
I must say, I really do find your checks and balances system of government hilarious. So you can't stop a government-funded association from spying on you directly -- even in a democracy -- but you can stop them from accidentally discovering one particular piece of data that someone once said shouldn't be collected.
If you don't want someone to amass your private data, why are you giving it to them for free in the first place, and why is your solution to keep doing so?
You're talking about e-mail. Buy your own e-mail server from any shared-server host out there. Pay for it. It'll cost you something like $20/month. POP, IMAP, and WebMail isn't difficult.
Quite frankly, if you've got a static IP (or buy one for a few bucks a month), you can just run your own from home.
If you want it to be yours, buy it. Welcome to ownership. And the moment you pay for it directly, there are countless laws to protect you and your information.
If you want free, then you're going to pay for it with your information instead of with your dollars. It's that simple. It's always been that simple.
Apparently, their education sucks. If they think that wireless technology came after wired technology, they are very much mistaken. Perhaps they should focus on actually learning first.
Personally, I could care less just how ignorant they are. After all the help that we give to them, and the no help that they give to themselves, I'm really not surprised. Tell me again how much money it costs to send a child to school. Go ahead. Tell me how much it costs to have parents teach their children. Oh right, they don't teach their own children. They also live far away from school, and food, and water -- that's why we supply bicycles too. You'd think that after 50 years of the same commercials (oozing sores, flies, injuries, all during food-network shows) perhaps they'd have learned to live closer to water.
For those as stupid as they are: over-the-air television came before cable. radio came before itunes. But infrastructure is far more reliable than air, precisely because it's grounded -- literally. The dream is to have space elevators and tethers, again because rockets, cool as they are, aren't stable.
Maybe, just maybe, they've got many problems to solve on their own, long before they get "connected". Others have suggested quite a few.
First off, tomato pie is more casually known as pizza pie.
Second, I don't live in the U.S.A., and everyone I know has heard of and eaten key lime pie -- it's served in most restaurants that serve any kind of fruit pie.
It's common many places outside of the the Amurica.
Not readily available, but you've obviously heard of pie made with limes. You've heard of pie. And you've heard of fruit pie. What's the difference which fruit?
All true. But I've never been to Florida, and none of my friends are anywhere near Florida. But we've been eating and making key lime pie for decades. Anyone who's ever made a pie, and has access to some kind of lime, key or otherwise, should have heard of key lime pie. It's nothing complicated. It's lime pie, no different in concept from lemon pie or pumpkin pie.
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sure it's a 5% improvement. having one class that's fundamentally different than all the others is a memory aid. of course.
but honestly, if all of your courses -- I had 7 at a time -- had an hour lecture for me to watch at home, would you watch 7 hours of lecture videos on your own? with no ability to interupt and ask for a clarification?
this just totally removes any concept of humans teaching humans. now it's about students learning on their own, and being corrected by teachers. sure it'll work, that's how business management and supervision works. it requires dedicated devotion. it's not something that students have any interest in doing.
if you're not going to teach me, I was always able to learn on my own. I never needed you to supervise the learning process.
so I can't lend my keys to a friend. and when I have had too much to drink, even if I'm still within legal limits, I can't let my sober friend drive. and I can't drive my own car whenever my brain waves -- which ain't under my control -- are unusual. So if I'm the wrong kind of sick, or if I'm scared, or if I'm in love. If I'm nervous, or if I just lost my job or if my wife is in labour, or if I just learned that she's pregnant, or if my child is injured, or just about any emergency situation that I internalize emotionally.
And in the end, like all electronic locking measures, they don't actually control the engine, they only control the power button, or the key. Which means that it can be bypassed.
I didn't say things. I said handed down.
Memories get handed down.
Techniques get handed down.
Ideas get handed down.
Memories, techniques, and ideas come with heirlooms, tools, and inspirations. Those are the things which represent the non-things. They support the non-things.
Growing up through childhood, with no inspiration, results in a young adult who has no idea what he wants to do. Contrast that with a young adult who's been staring at his great grandfathers' sculptures for 10 years. Or his sportscar for 16 years. Or his sextant since before he knew what it even was.
Getting someone started in life isn't about money. It's about the drive to improve something.
So, what techniques are you handing down?
If you want them to succeed in life with an education, then you'll also need to provide a time travel machine so they can go back to when an education actually paid dollars. It doesn't anymore.
But you can do, if you really value their future, is to sell your home now, and buy a large piece of land outside of the city for the same price. A farm, a country house, whatever. By the time they grow up, the city will have expanded, and that land will be worth a fortune. If they've been farming on it, you'll have given them free food, a strong work ethic, safe food, and a family life-style without commuting, horrible bosses, deadlines, and abstract craziness. They'll have it all and money too. The government will give them all sorts of tax incentives so their life costs will be much lower than everyone else's too. And as a farm, they'll be paid more to sell it. Much more.
SAcred family relics that aren't to be touched are boring. There's nothing wrong with wearing out heirlooms, as long as you're creating new ones of your own. But if you can't afford to produce any relics, and you're just another human of the times, then congratulations you've done nothing in life but replaced yourself. That's seriously uncool.
I've got four giant wooden cabinet speakers from my grandfather's father. They may or may not still work, but they make great end-tables. I'm currently using them as nightstands by the bed, which makes it look like I've spent about six thousand dollars to wire the bedroom for sound.
I've got two very old record players from two disparate grandparents. My parents wanted to sell/chuck them. I insisted on taking them. Whereas women would have nick-knacks and porcelan dolls and bowls of wicker balls lying around, I have old fashioned record players as my nick-knacks.
My first-ever remote-controlled car, from when I was eight, that I built and painted my self is around. I also have a four foot tall cast bronze statue of anubis as the first piece of art that I ever purchased. I've got a few '80's lightshow things -- like those borg-style circles and an infinity box. I also have an eleven foot wide solid wood desk that I had custom built by a dining-room table company, that will easily last for the next 200 years. It can be a desk, a boardroom table, or a dining room table for many generations to come.
It's not about what one person would want. If you're a normal family, then by the time you die there are at least 10 people below you -- children, grandchildren, greatgrandchildren, neices, nephews, and cousins. Heck, some of my friends have close to 50 hundred younger relatives, and one has nearly 100.
You're saying that of my 10, no one will want a big solid wood desk for anything? Or no one will want two giant 150 year-old speakers? No one will like my record of baby belluga in the deep blue sea? Swims so wild and swims so free. Heaven above and the sea below and the little white whale on the go.
Or perhaps you're specifically talking about my sports car. The engine's good for 800'000km, and I've only put on 100'000km thus far. I take care of it. I've modded it to add scissor-doors. My next mod may be equally interesting. You're saying that my nephew won't want a sports car for his 16th birthday? Perhaps with a self-driving module installed? Or a hover-upgrade?
20% is a great starting point. Of the many many many things that a person could be, 20% is by far the majority.
And as I just said, I've got 20 neighbours, 5 of whom are crap as people, one of whom stole from us, and one of whom still owes me money. All 5 are the same colour.
You've got your citation -- this thread. Cite this. This is first-hand information. If you want actual proof, I'll happily introduce you to my neighbours. You can bring a calculator.
So, have you ever inherited anything? Do you have a book that your grandfather used to read? A record player? A record collection? One record? What about a video tape? A car? A tvision? A set of speaker?
So if you rent your furniture, and your home, and lease your car, and your tvision doesn't last more than 5 years, and your speakers aren't worth more than a few dollars, then what exactly do you give to your children? What gets handed down?
I know, just the words: "I've got nothing, you're on your own from scratch."
Enjoy. But I like to have things that represent me; taken as a set, no one else would ever have them. And most items, aren't owned by more than a handful of people.
But if the only things you use are things that millions of others use too -- iphones, the most popular books, only the most popular movies -- then congrats, you stand out like a chinese person with a chinese phone in china. Hello kitty.
And by the way, that library of over 100'000 books...how many of them are public domain anyway? Oh yeah. Project Gutenberg. Oh yeah. Been reading on a computer for decades. Oh yeah. Just a cash grab. Oh yeah.
Everything is harmful to society. Not recycling is harmful to society. Recycling is harmful to society. Competitg for a promotion hurts everyone who doesn't get it.
I'm allowed to hurt people. People hurt me all the time. I'm allowed to insult people, swear at people, give them the finger. I can be rude, vulgar, and obscene.
I can't threaten to do them any bodily harm. But it's perfectly fine for me to threaten to do them financial harm.
I can't cause anyone to bleed (with rare unintentional exception). But I can make the world more dangerous at my discretion.
Racism isn't a problem so long as those on the receiving end aren't restricted from their own freedoms. I can call you dirty, I can refuse to hire you as an employee of my private company. I can keep you out of my private club. I can never invite you to my birthday parties. I simply can't stop you from buying the house on my street -- although I can convince the seller not to sell to you. And I can certainly choose to not let you buy my house, no matter how much you're willing to pay over my asking price.
Welcome to competition and personal preference. If you want to be my friend, you get to earn it. If I want to start you at a disadvantage, that's my business, it's actually not yours.
And, more importantly, racism doesn't come from nowhere, it comes from stereotypes. Stereotypes don't come out of nowhere either. They come from other people's experiences. I'd argue that most stereotypes tend to be correct about 20% of the time. That makes them a pretty good starting-point for most new encounters. I'd be stupid to maintain someone else's stereotype when given evidence to the contrary, but I'd be equally stupid to ignore the advice of others.
And when a given stereotype seems to consistent with my own experiences, I'd be damn foolish to ignore my own observations. I'd it'd be mean of me to not share my observations with my friends and family.
You want people to not be racist against you? Bake them a cake.
You know, there are many neighbours on my street. And I can tell you how many of them say hi to me, aggregated by the colour of their skin. I can also tell you which ones actually refused my gifts. I can also tell you which ones didn't participate in helping build fences for ten neighbours -- even when they were one of those neighbours. And I can tell you which ones actually stole our wood and made it more difficult. I can also tell you which ones didn't pay for their share of the fences and which ones stopped answering their doors when I came looking for his promissed-payment.
Clearly, those colours aren't interested in contradicting the opinions of others -- instead, they swiftly confirm those opinions.
So, do you want me to still say that colour doesn't affect how they pay their bills? I've got 20 neighbours involved in fences, and the 10 who refused to pay someone they owed are two colours that are different from then 10 who paid right away.
You want me to ignore that?
it's perfectly legal. it's not "racism".
Let me clarify. In those cases, I'm a racist, but it's not "Racism" with a capital R -- it's not illegal. It's not criminal. And it's not something to be resolved.
It's not racism to avoid someone, and it's not racism to choose someone else. It's only racism if what you're doing hurts, stifles, or restricts the freedoms of someone. I can choose not to buy that house, or not to take those streets, or not to patron that restaurant. It's not racist. It's me having a preference.
So if I don't like greeks, and hence don't want to pay greek owners of a greek restaurant, I don't eat there, and it's not racist. If I picket the restaurant and stop others from going there and ask my political representative to tear down that restaurant, then that's racism.
Greeks have the right to not be hindered by my preferences. They don't have any right to my money. See the difference?
(Incidentally, I love greek food, and recently found two fantastically greek-family restaurants in Oshawa and in Whitby.)
Nice; I approve.
I like how you use "normally" and "you" (referring to me), as though you know my location, situation, and ISP.
Yes, and general psychology can also predict what a person would choose on a given image -- i.e. what they consider foreground.
Good news, we have a dumb solution to the problem. "Your gesture must include at least one background element, one foreground element, and one circle."
Uhuh.
I'm obviously willing to give answers in a public forum. Look at my many answers.
And you do need my answer, because you asked for it with the words "Please tell me...".
What I don't need is you.
And yes, I'm not a fan of cowards around here.
It's a thread about data privacy and ownership, not low profiles. I've no problem with the opinions that I publish being known. I've problems with the opinions that I don't publish being known.
If you aren't willing to put your name to your opinions, then I don't need to help you with your request.
Cowards don't get advice from me.
I would have argued that buying a static ip on most isp's tends to jump you out of residential class in the first place. but in any event, that's not my concern. I'm not in the U.S.A., and I know nothing of the poster's isp.
I must say, I really do find your checks and balances system of government hilarious. So you can't stop a government-funded association from spying on you directly -- even in a democracy -- but you can stop them from accidentally discovering one particular piece of data that someone once said shouldn't be collected.
Interesting. Screwed up, but interesting.
If you don't want someone to amass your private data, why are you giving it to them for free in the first place, and why is your solution to keep doing so?
You're talking about e-mail. Buy your own e-mail server from any shared-server host out there. Pay for it. It'll cost you something like $20/month. POP, IMAP, and WebMail isn't difficult.
Quite frankly, if you've got a static IP (or buy one for a few bucks a month), you can just run your own from home.
If you want it to be yours, buy it. Welcome to ownership. And the moment you pay for it directly, there are countless laws to protect you and your information.
If you want free, then you're going to pay for it with your information instead of with your dollars. It's that simple. It's always been that simple.
Apparently, their education sucks. If they think that wireless technology came after wired technology, they are very much mistaken. Perhaps they should focus on actually learning first.
Personally, I could care less just how ignorant they are. After all the help that we give to them, and the no help that they give to themselves, I'm really not surprised. Tell me again how much money it costs to send a child to school. Go ahead. Tell me how much it costs to have parents teach their children. Oh right, they don't teach their own children. They also live far away from school, and food, and water -- that's why we supply bicycles too. You'd think that after 50 years of the same commercials (oozing sores, flies, injuries, all during food-network shows) perhaps they'd have learned to live closer to water.
For those as stupid as they are: over-the-air television came before cable. radio came before itunes. But infrastructure is far more reliable than air, precisely because it's grounded -- literally. The dream is to have space elevators and tethers, again because rockets, cool as they are, aren't stable.
Maybe, just maybe, they've got many problems to solve on their own, long before they get "connected". Others have suggested quite a few.
Again, I'm not in the U.S.A. I eat pumpkin pie whenever it's in season. Moron.
First off, tomato pie is more casually known as pizza pie.
Second, I don't live in the U.S.A., and everyone I know has heard of and eaten key lime pie -- it's served in most restaurants that serve any kind of fruit pie.
It's common many places outside of the the Amurica.
Not readily available, but you've obviously heard of pie made with limes. You've heard of pie. And you've heard of fruit pie. What's the difference which fruit?
All true. But I've never been to Florida, and none of my friends are anywhere near Florida. But we've been eating and making key lime pie for decades. Anyone who's ever made a pie, and has access to some kind of lime, key or otherwise, should have heard of key lime pie. It's nothing complicated. It's lime pie, no different in concept from lemon pie or pumpkin pie.