and tell the world the details of how we spy [...]
If we're to have an open and democratic system, the American people must be told when their laws are being violated by their supposed servants. In an open system, you cannot tell the people without telling the world.
And, for what purpose did it serve? It did nothing to help the American people.
Nothing?
[...] he revealed some shady intelligence gathering programs the US was running against its own people [...]
Welcome to the internet. Just yesterday, there was an article about Kentucky and most of the initial comments were bigoted nonsense. Blame nationalism if you like, but understand that such comments come from people who are just as likely to denigrate their own countrymen. If you value your sanity, please don't take such behavior personally.
Actually we, (almost uniquely), tend to say, "you all" as often as anything else. This is especially true in Louisville. The most important thing to understand about KY is that it's an Appalachian border state. OH and IN say, "You guys" while TN and VA say, "Y'all." We try to steer between that Scylla and Charybdis. But the shine and bluegrass, yeah, some stereotypes have a basis in reality.
It's like a straw-man has just been burned at the stake. The notion of religion you're citing seems to be derived from Jack Chick tracts (and the like). Read what he has to say about evolution sometime. I can assure you that his knowledge of historical Christianity goes no deeper.
Incidentally, one of the most disturbing bits of bathroom graffiti I've ever read was at a classics library. I was in the stall and looked up to see, scribbled on the tiles, the following:
Peccavi nimis cogitatione, verbo et opere.
Spiritus promptus est, caro autem infirma.
I really and truly didn't want to know what had been done on that toilet before I'd arrived.
\dot? Isn't that the pro-Windows/DOS site where everyone complains endlessly about Linu$ the Locutus, they all say that Gnome shell and Ubuntu Unity are improvements because they comes closer to Windows 8's superior interface, they complain that piracy is undermining creativity, they say that DRM's are the way of the future, and everyone wears a goatee.
The increased use of "apps" generally should have some impact as well. It wasn't very many years ago that many average internet users typed every website into Google (or whatever default homepage/search engine they used) to find them, even if they'd been to the site before. Now they press the app on their tablets or phones as often as not.
Hey, I think I've probably as much experience behind the stick as the article's author. Therefore, I can speak on this subject with internet levels of authority. In my experience, if you don't have a big, open area to land, you've just got to tell your crew to bail out and then do so yourself. The helo generally has enough momentum to avoid landing on you and all you need to do is deploy your parachute and you'll land safely.
At that point, you've destroyed your ride but a new one will spawn at base. The important thing is that you've gotten your guys to the objective safely, which is stupid hard to do if you try to land any aircraft. As a matter of fact, flying anything should be avoided. Given this fact, it's easy to see why an aircraft you can drive would be useful.
Ah, man! I just realized that, in retrospect, I managed to direct a thread I started about this having nothing to do with geekdom in a decidedly geeky direction. It's just like Lincoln said, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and prove yourself a nerd." Or something like that.
No kidding. I learned this usage of "lampshade" from Stargate SG1, Episode 200. That episode was somehow radically different from every other episode while at the same time representing everything that was right about that show.
I've never been the one to raise the "How is this News for Nerds?" cry. In fact, I'm often the one trying to explain how it could interest a nerd. But I'm really at a loss here. The lampshade hung over the first two sentences didn't help.
Now physicists have tested this idea theoretically and experimentally and say it doesn't hold water.
In my experience, rubber sheets are actually very good at holding water. I'm guessing one of these guys has a wife who, due to the number of years her husband spent on his Ph.D., is feeling the old biological clock ticking and she's taken a needle to every rubber she can find.
Heh. I expect within hours to see a bill in the U.S. Senate banning the 3-D printing of fighter planes. Someone might sneak those things through metal detectors, though he might have to do it one piece at a time. Of course, 3-D printing a fighter plane (rather than just replacement parts for the console) is impractical and printing one that would actually work as a fighter plane is impossible, but the likelihood of someone doing so has never really been the issue.
If the above statement seems a little exaggerated, I'll confess that it is. But it's no more exaggerated than giving this article the title "RAF Fighter Flies On Printed Parts", when we're just talking about console parts. The original title was, "RAF jets fly with 3D printed parts." I am saddened that the/. version is both less accurate and more sensationalist.
And, of course, we need good empirical evidence to help determine what we should be willing to believe about these things. Hence, we need studies like this. Otherwise, all we're able to do is speculate about what the senses (ours and other animals) are capable of.
Many fine books (especially in fiction) are offered above, so I thought I'd take a different approach to the question. The following ten books are, in my view, fundamental for anyone who wishes a broad education. That being said, I didn't pick these from some list of "classics." Each of these books have challenged me and have changed my life, even those I vehemently disagree with. They chiefly address that most important question: How we shall live a good life? These are worth reading, which is to say they're worth reading more than once. It's a bit of a mélange, but I wanted to limit myself to only ten works.
1. Plato, Republic (add Phaedo and Phaedrus if you like that)
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
3. Confucius, The Analects
4. Cicero, On Duties (esp. Book III)
5. Plotinus, Enneads (I.6)
6. Dorotheos of Gaza, Discourses (esp. "On Renunciation" and "On Refusal to Judge our Neighbor")
7. Augustine, The Confessions
8. Marx, Communist Manifesto
9. Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum
10. Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle
I was wondering how taking a pic of a kidnapped victim holding a news paper with the current date would still be proof of being alive when you now have to make them close their eyes to avoid being caught.
I'm sure kidnappers don't do that anymore anyway. Too great a risk of being caught as the only guy to buy a newspaper that day.
A heat bulb or heat lamp for chickens doesn't work well. It puts too much heat out and you have to move it back away from them effectively heating a larger area.
Bingo. I'll readily admit the inadequacy of 60(etc.)-watt bulbs to the task of lighting. Hence why I've moved away from the things for lighting purposes. But for a few tasks, they're really well adapted.
This is exactly why I don't toast regulations against things like 60-watt incandescent bulbs. It's too simplistic and showy a solution to a complex problem. And such are often the solutions we get when we try to achieve good ends on a federal (or higher) level. When we simply outlaw things, we fail to take into account the possibility that people on the most local level might have found a good use for them on that same level. We assume that we, in the center, know everything and have every solution for the rubes on the periphery. Besides being hubristic and presumptive, this is bigoted.
Would that more should realize the value of subsidiarity! Sometimes people on the most local level do not need people a thousand miles away to make decisions for them. Sometimes people on the most local level know a thing or two. Sometimes, they think local, act local, and it's good for the globe.
The politician's solution is always a solution to one problem: How shall I get re-elected? Once upon a time, enough pols concluded that going after incandescents for the sake of global warming would help them attain this end. I'm not about to deny that climate change is an immanent danger which ought to be addressed. But I rather doubt I'll find many politicians ready to go after the highly centralized industrial-capitalist system built and reliant on cheap energy.
Removing incandescent bulbs from the market is a showy and minimal sacrifice. This makes it perfect to the politician's end. For my part, I'll find another way to provide a balance of heat and light to cold birds whose ancestors originated nearer the equator. Really, it's little more than annoying. But I'll always despise the pretentious ass who acts like he's saving the planet by outlawing potentially useful tools while supporting an ever centralizing system that itself relies on cheap oil, coal, and gas.
Long distances mean reliance upon fossil fuels and that includes long distance solutions. You want to save the world? Spend less time outlawing incandescent bulbs in D.C. and more time with chickens (or buying eggs from the nearest person who has them).
When we used to raise chickens, we'd use incandescent bulbs for heat lamps during the winter. The chickens appreciated the extra light (it increased laying) and the "waste" heat wasn't a waste at all.
Bullshit, outlay of $200 to replace all bulbs in house, electric bill dropped by about the same in the first month.
Good grief. Turn off some lights when you're not using them man! Your drop in price for changing bulbs more than doubles my total monthly electric bill.
Of course, the fact that people who do not pay so much for electricity will not make the money back so quickly might suggest why some do not upgrade so quickly. Different circumstances result in different calculations. (I note this even though I myself moved away from incandescents years ago.)
I think you missed the point of the article. The point of the article is that software quality matters on the SmartBear blog, where you can find resources for Mobile, Agile, and Cloud. While you're there, check out their line of development and web monitoring products. They also have webinars!
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Mitt? Is that you?
If we're to have an open and democratic system, the American people must be told when their laws are being violated by their supposed servants. In an open system, you cannot tell the people without telling the world.
Nothing?
That's not nothing.
Welcome to the internet. Just yesterday, there was an article about Kentucky and most of the initial comments were bigoted nonsense. Blame nationalism if you like, but understand that such comments come from people who are just as likely to denigrate their own countrymen. If you value your sanity, please don't take such behavior personally.
Actually we, (almost uniquely), tend to say, "you all" as often as anything else. This is especially true in Louisville. The most important thing to understand about KY is that it's an Appalachian border state. OH and IN say, "You guys" while TN and VA say, "Y'all." We try to steer between that Scylla and Charybdis. But the shine and bluegrass, yeah, some stereotypes have a basis in reality.
It's like a straw-man has just been burned at the stake. The notion of religion you're citing seems to be derived from Jack Chick tracts (and the like). Read what he has to say about evolution sometime. I can assure you that his knowledge of historical Christianity goes no deeper.
Yes. Exactly. Now, why do you suppose someone would write that while sitting on a toilet?
Incidentally, one of the most disturbing bits of bathroom graffiti I've ever read was at a classics library. I was in the stall and looked up to see, scribbled on the tiles, the following:
I really and truly didn't want to know what had been done on that toilet before I'd arrived.
\dot? Isn't that the pro-Windows/DOS site where everyone complains endlessly about Linu$ the Locutus, they all say that Gnome shell and Ubuntu Unity are improvements because they comes closer to Windows 8's superior interface, they complain that piracy is undermining creativity, they say that DRM's are the way of the future, and everyone wears a goatee.
The increased use of "apps" generally should have some impact as well. It wasn't very many years ago that many average internet users typed every website into Google (or whatever default homepage/search engine they used) to find them, even if they'd been to the site before. Now they press the app on their tablets or phones as often as not.
But wouldn't that be an honest response?
Hey, I think I've probably as much experience behind the stick as the article's author. Therefore, I can speak on this subject with internet levels of authority. In my experience, if you don't have a big, open area to land, you've just got to tell your crew to bail out and then do so yourself. The helo generally has enough momentum to avoid landing on you and all you need to do is deploy your parachute and you'll land safely.
At that point, you've destroyed your ride but a new one will spawn at base. The important thing is that you've gotten your guys to the objective safely, which is stupid hard to do if you try to land any aircraft. As a matter of fact, flying anything should be avoided. Given this fact, it's easy to see why an aircraft you can drive would be useful.
Ah, man! I just realized that, in retrospect, I managed to direct a thread I started about this having nothing to do with geekdom in a decidedly geeky direction. It's just like Lincoln said, "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and prove yourself a nerd." Or something like that.
No kidding. I learned this usage of "lampshade" from Stargate SG1, Episode 200. That episode was somehow radically different from every other episode while at the same time representing everything that was right about that show.
I've never been the one to raise the "How is this News for Nerds?" cry. In fact, I'm often the one trying to explain how it could interest a nerd. But I'm really at a loss here. The lampshade hung over the first two sentences didn't help.
In my experience, rubber sheets are actually very good at holding water. I'm guessing one of these guys has a wife who, due to the number of years her husband spent on his Ph.D., is feeling the old biological clock ticking and she's taken a needle to every rubber she can find.
Heh. I expect within hours to see a bill in the U.S. Senate banning the 3-D printing of fighter planes. Someone might sneak those things through metal detectors, though he might have to do it one piece at a time. Of course, 3-D printing a fighter plane (rather than just replacement parts for the console) is impractical and printing one that would actually work as a fighter plane is impossible, but the likelihood of someone doing so has never really been the issue.
If the above statement seems a little exaggerated, I'll confess that it is. But it's no more exaggerated than giving this article the title "RAF Fighter Flies On Printed Parts", when we're just talking about console parts. The original title was, "RAF jets fly with 3D printed parts." I am saddened that the /. version is both less accurate and more sensationalist.
Could have been Notorious B.I.G. Then we'd have had Mo Currencies Mo Problems.
Or, if you have control issues, you can feed it White Castle before you put it in the box.
Putting magnets next to a dog's bed to see if he'll turn in fewer circles before lying down.
And, of course, we need good empirical evidence to help determine what we should be willing to believe about these things. Hence, we need studies like this. Otherwise, all we're able to do is speculate about what the senses (ours and other animals) are capable of.
Many fine books (especially in fiction) are offered above, so I thought I'd take a different approach to the question. The following ten books are, in my view, fundamental for anyone who wishes a broad education. That being said, I didn't pick these from some list of "classics." Each of these books have challenged me and have changed my life, even those I vehemently disagree with. They chiefly address that most important question: How we shall live a good life? These are worth reading, which is to say they're worth reading more than once. It's a bit of a mélange, but I wanted to limit myself to only ten works.
1. Plato, Republic (add Phaedo and Phaedrus if you like that)
2. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
3. Confucius, The Analects
4. Cicero, On Duties (esp. Book III)
5. Plotinus, Enneads (I.6)
6. Dorotheos of Gaza, Discourses (esp. "On Renunciation" and "On Refusal to Judge our Neighbor")
7. Augustine, The Confessions
8. Marx, Communist Manifesto
9. Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum
10. Wendell Berry, Life is a Miracle
I'm sure kidnappers don't do that anymore anyway. Too great a risk of being caught as the only guy to buy a newspaper that day.
Bingo. I'll readily admit the inadequacy of 60(etc.)-watt bulbs to the task of lighting. Hence why I've moved away from the things for lighting purposes. But for a few tasks, they're really well adapted.
This is exactly why I don't toast regulations against things like 60-watt incandescent bulbs. It's too simplistic and showy a solution to a complex problem. And such are often the solutions we get when we try to achieve good ends on a federal (or higher) level. When we simply outlaw things, we fail to take into account the possibility that people on the most local level might have found a good use for them on that same level. We assume that we, in the center, know everything and have every solution for the rubes on the periphery. Besides being hubristic and presumptive, this is bigoted.
Would that more should realize the value of subsidiarity! Sometimes people on the most local level do not need people a thousand miles away to make decisions for them. Sometimes people on the most local level know a thing or two. Sometimes, they think local, act local, and it's good for the globe.
The politician's solution is always a solution to one problem: How shall I get re-elected? Once upon a time, enough pols concluded that going after incandescents for the sake of global warming would help them attain this end. I'm not about to deny that climate change is an immanent danger which ought to be addressed. But I rather doubt I'll find many politicians ready to go after the highly centralized industrial-capitalist system built and reliant on cheap energy.
Removing incandescent bulbs from the market is a showy and minimal sacrifice. This makes it perfect to the politician's end. For my part, I'll find another way to provide a balance of heat and light to cold birds whose ancestors originated nearer the equator. Really, it's little more than annoying. But I'll always despise the pretentious ass who acts like he's saving the planet by outlawing potentially useful tools while supporting an ever centralizing system that itself relies on cheap oil, coal, and gas.
Long distances mean reliance upon fossil fuels and that includes long distance solutions. You want to save the world? Spend less time outlawing incandescent bulbs in D.C. and more time with chickens (or buying eggs from the nearest person who has them).
When we used to raise chickens, we'd use incandescent bulbs for heat lamps during the winter. The chickens appreciated the extra light (it increased laying) and the "waste" heat wasn't a waste at all.
Good grief. Turn off some lights when you're not using them man! Your drop in price for changing bulbs more than doubles my total monthly electric bill.
Of course, the fact that people who do not pay so much for electricity will not make the money back so quickly might suggest why some do not upgrade so quickly. Different circumstances result in different calculations. (I note this even though I myself moved away from incandescents years ago.)
I think you missed the point of the article. The point of the article is that software quality matters on the SmartBear blog, where you can find resources for Mobile, Agile, and Cloud. While you're there, check out their line of development and web monitoring products. They also have webinars!