Can you please persuade the mysterious Mr Pinkerton to read 1984 before the meeting? I find the parallels between his organisation and the Thought Police particularly disturbing.
The broad principle of speaking to the disturbed kids is an interesting one. I've been a and if you have at least one eye open, you can identify many of the unhappy ones. And also which one's are bullies (often the same kids, I would surmise.)
I would say that schools should encourage heads of year to speak to kids they're worried about (in terms of the child's own well-being, not out of fear of violence) to let them know that they are concerned and are available should they wish to talk about anything.
When I was at school (not university) I was downright miserable. I don't think even my parents were aware (having spoken to them since.) This wasn't particularly anything to do with geekiness. It may also be relevant to the discussion that I am British and went to UK. One of my teachers stopped me for a moment after class once and told me that he'd noticed how I obsessively bit my nails and asked if anything was wrong. Now, I told him that it was just a habit, but the fact that he bothered to care meant a lot to me.
Teachers spend more time with the children in "quality time" than many parents do - I think we need to look to them as more than educators, but also as guardians.
Regards, Damian Smith
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...we have road cameras by the side of the road on certain bits of motorway - They scan number plates and use the information to check whether you speed by averaging your speed between individual checkpoints. A lot more accurate than traditional radar-guns (and thus radar-guns become useless).
Point is that if you work out how much data is stored (assuming that they don't bother with keeping photographs of the cars unless they have been speeding) then there is very little and they could easily keep records of where all cars travelling over a reasonable period in a certain region go.
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I know where you live --- Revelation 2:13
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If you had any idea how many drivers and pedestrians were killed each year by other drivers going too fast... Slow Down - It's not big, and it's not clever.
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At least with a probe some reasonable attempt can be made to keep it clean (in a genuine sense, not a "now please wash your hands" sense). The sooner we send ppl up, the sooner we dirty the planet with our bacteria, viruses and waste. I say let's keep off there until there's a purpose to having wo/men up there. It's only landing on another planet for cripes sake.
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What you are doing here is exciting atoms and ions. The electrons around the nucleus become separated from the nucleus and light is emitted as they go change their energy levels. It is a plasma. It is not fusion. Fusion is a nuclear thing, not an electronic thing. You have to smash atoms into eachother so that the nuclei combine, not so that the electrons get excited. If the point of your comment was that it's difficult to control said reaction then you're absolutely correct. If you were trying to suggest that one can do fusion in a microwave oven then you've been misled, I'm afraid.
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Ok, so we're at the end of the twentieth century and it still isn't considered acceptable for a girl to ask out a guy?!!! I'd hoped that feminism had moved us on from there a little.
In the meantime, here's a little article that will be sadly familiar to the rest of us sad losers who still can't get that girl to like them.:-P
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Well, I'm British and I have to say I don't use the word Period to mean anything other than a unit of time or menstruation. I would say we use "slash" or "oblique" and "dot" or "full stop" or "point".
Pretentious?...Moi?
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From what I recall were going to call one of their models "silver mist". However, in German 'mist' refers to an unpleasant odour of a farmyard nature so it got called the "silver ghost".
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I went to a college party last night and there were scientists there - I can only remember up until midnight. This morning I wake up, my head hurts like someone has drilled a hole in it and my vision is screwed. Bastards - if you're reading this through my eyes now, I'm coming to get you.
This is an interesting field. People on both sides of the debate are often fueled by religious influences - and/or through knowing people with physical or mental handicaps.
I know a couple of people who were born with partial limbs due to thalidomide (sp?). When the big thalidomide scare was in progress, parents with "malformed" foetuses were often advised to have them aborted (by doctors). They were told that the children would have no quality of life and it was kinder to kill them at that stage.
Well, the two peeps I know are now in their 20s and very happy and successful.
Friends who have worked with the handicapped tell me that despite being restricted by communication abilities or learning difficulties, most people seem very happy.
It is too easy to think to ourselves, "Gosh, if I lost the use of my eyes I would rather die than go on like that." A fair question does arise as to how reasonable it is to transpose those feelings onto someone else.
On the other hand, anyone who has seen/heard One by Metallica may well be able to understand this professor's attitude to the matter.
I think that the main difficulty in legislating for euthanasia is in control...what will count as severely disabled?...who should decide?...Are the parents' feelings of difficulty in coping with the child overriding the rights of the child who, with appropriate assistance, may well be very happy in life?
I'm not pro-life but do feel that there are serious questions that are difficult to cope with as regards the law.
In the Republic of Ireland, abortion is illegal. However, if a judge permits it, a pregnant woman may travel to another country for an abortion. If the US were to introduce pro-euthansia legislation, how would it cope with parents from other countries bringing their children over to have them euthanised?
Makes me think that maybe one part of the solution to making tech less male dominated, might be to look at ways of helping younger (and older) geek blokes to cope with speaking to women.
It might be that a part of the reason that so many guys are geeks is that they feel insecure around women, and others, and feel more comfortable around computers as a computer can't reject you or judge you. (What about you ladies, did a feeling of not fitting in drive you towards computers?)
So, maybe part of the solution lies in assisting everyone to integrate better through adolescence.
This isn't mentioned in that article, however, given that this plastic would be made from a replenishable supply, it doesn't matter if you burn it as the plants can only contain as much carbon as they abosorb during their lifetimes (no net carbon input to the atmosphere)
absolutely right, resolution is around the angstrom scale here. The picture shows the top of the electron distribution for the surface of graphite. Although it does not show the same detail as the results in Scientific American (and by no means is the experiment I did a novel thing - it was practically the first thing done after the STM was invented) it does demonstrate something about the shape of orbitals; namely that the electrons are not just aranged spherically around each atom.
It can be seen that the hexagonal arrangement here includes a maximum at the centre of each hexagon - this would not be observed if only spherical orbits were present. disclaimer - I was not trying to suggest that this experiment (a tiny part of a third year project at uni) was comparable to that of the scientists in SA - only that theirs is not the first experimental evidence of orbital shapes. That much was done many years ago.
I don't get why this is so new (excepting the technique possibly) I was able to demonstrate the shape of orbitals in graphyite using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope last year. Click here to have a peek yourself.
Well, this article on the bbc news website seems to think that relaxation of the law is through - along with £80m for (presumably) the NSA to improve it's code cracking power. looks like times are a-changing!
OK, so if export by hard copy is permitted, (as per these books that have been mentioned - and a couple of T-shirts I've seen) then what is to stop me (living in England) from copytyping the code, compiling, and making available to mirrors around europe? I'm a non-us citizen, it is not illegal to produce crypto software in Britain. Alternatively, what if people were to publish, on the web on US servers, parts of the code to SSH. I could then cut-and-paste (hooray!) and create a whole program. Noone would have exported any useful code and I would not have imported any useful code. Maybe the latter would be about as useful in court as "I don't understand the problem. These were only the detonators" though. thoughts/feedback?
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Can you please persuade the mysterious Mr Pinkerton to read 1984 before the meeting? I find the parallels between his organisation and the Thought Police particularly disturbing.
The broad principle of speaking to the disturbed kids is an interesting one. I've been a and if you have at least one eye open, you can identify many of the unhappy ones. And also which one's are bullies (often the same kids, I would surmise.)
I would say that schools should encourage heads of year to speak to kids they're worried about (in terms of the child's own well-being, not out of fear of violence) to let them know that they are concerned and are available should they wish to talk about anything.
When I was at school (not university) I was downright miserable. I don't think even my parents were aware (having spoken to them since.) This wasn't particularly anything to do with geekiness. It may also be relevant to the discussion that I am British and went to UK. One of my teachers stopped me for a moment after class once and told me that he'd noticed how I obsessively bit my nails and asked if anything was wrong. Now, I told him that it was just a habit, but the fact that he bothered to care meant a lot to me.
Teachers spend more time with the children in "quality time" than many parents do - I think we need to look to them as more than educators, but also as guardians.
Regards,
Damian Smith
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
Goddamn I suck.
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
Point is that if you work out how much data is stored (assuming that they don't bother with keeping photographs of the cars unless they have been speeding) then there is very little and they could easily keep records of where all cars travelling over a reasonable period in a certain region go.
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Revelation 2:13
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
I say let's keep off there until there's a purpose to having wo/men up there. It's only landing on another planet for cripes sake.
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
It is a plasma.
It is not fusion.
Fusion is a nuclear thing, not an electronic thing. You have to smash atoms into eachother so that the nuclei combine, not so that the electrons get excited. If the point of your comment was that it's difficult to control said reaction then you're absolutely correct. If you were trying to suggest that one can do fusion in a microwave oven then you've been misled, I'm afraid.
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
How to date the kind of guy you want to date
How about asking him out yourself?
Ok, so we're at the end of the twentieth century and it still isn't considered acceptable for a girl to ask out a guy?!!!
I'd hoped that feminism had moved us on from there a little.
In the meantime, here's a little article that will be sadly familiar to the rest of us sad losers who still can't get that girl to like them. :-P
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
Pretentious?...Moi?
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
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To hell with you, I never liked you, you are no friend of mine...
This morning I wake up, my head hurts like someone has drilled a hole in it and my vision is screwed.
Bastards - if you're reading this through my eyes now, I'm coming to get you.
I know a couple of people who were born with partial limbs due to thalidomide (sp?). When the big thalidomide scare was in progress, parents with "malformed" foetuses were often advised to have them aborted (by doctors). They were told that the children would have no quality of life and it was kinder to kill them at that stage.
Well, the two peeps I know are now in their 20s and very happy and successful.
Friends who have worked with the handicapped tell me that despite being restricted by communication abilities or learning difficulties, most people seem very happy.
It is too easy to think to ourselves, "Gosh, if I lost the use of my eyes I would rather die than go on like that."
A fair question does arise as to how reasonable it is to transpose those feelings onto someone else.
On the other hand, anyone who has seen/heard One by Metallica may well be able to understand this professor's attitude to the matter.
I think that the main difficulty in legislating for euthanasia is in control...what will count as severely disabled?...who should decide?...Are the parents' feelings of difficulty in coping with the child overriding the rights of the child who, with appropriate assistance, may well be very happy in life?
I'm not pro-life but do feel that there are serious questions that are difficult to cope with as regards the law.
In the Republic of Ireland, abortion is illegal. However, if a judge permits it, a pregnant woman may travel to another country for an abortion.
If the US were to introduce pro-euthansia legislation, how would it cope with parents from other countries bringing their children over to have them euthanised?
Many, many questions all round.
Cambridge Undergraduate Advocates Euthanising Princeton Prof
It might be that a part of the reason that so many guys are geeks is that they feel insecure around women, and others, and feel more comfortable around computers as a computer can't reject you or judge you. (What about you ladies, did a feeling of not fitting in drive you towards computers?)
So, maybe part of the solution lies in assisting everyone to integrate better through adolescence.
This is in glibc only - grrr!
Although it does not show the same detail as the results in Scientific American (and by no means is the experiment I did a novel thing - it was practically the first thing done after the STM was invented) it does demonstrate something about the shape of orbitals; namely that the electrons are not just aranged spherically around each atom.
It can be seen that the hexagonal arrangement here includes a maximum at the centre of each hexagon - this would not be observed if only spherical orbits were present.
disclaimer - I was not trying to suggest that this experiment (a tiny part of a third year project at uni) was comparable to that of the scientists in SA - only that theirs is not the first experimental evidence of orbital shapes. That much was done many years ago.
Obviously, graphyite is a typo. I meant graphite.
I don't get why this is so new (excepting the technique possibly) I was able to demonstrate the shape of orbitals in graphyite using a Scanning Tunneling Microscope last year. Click here to have a peek yourself.
Well, this article on the bbc news website seems to think that relaxation of the law is through - along with £80m for (presumably) the NSA to improve it's code cracking power. looks like times are a-changing!
Jesus, don't go giving them ideas!
Alternatively, what if people were to publish, on the web on US servers, parts of the code to SSH. I could then cut-and-paste (hooray!) and create a whole program. Noone would have exported any useful code and I would not have imported any useful code.
Maybe the latter would be about as useful in court as "I don't understand the problem. These were only the detonators" though.
thoughts/feedback?