That is why other sites moderate heavily postings before allowing them to see the FP daylight.
The Jedi thing is one of the most stupid paragraphs I have read in several days, with so many politicians in the news recently that is a very damning statement.
The defintion of "kids-safe" of Big Brother is the one we all should obey. Big Brother is all wise and fair. And he loves us and the children (unless you are a fucking gay, swear too much, or dare to enjoy sex for no reproductive purposes. You terrorist).
I want my soma and my ration of soylen green!
Oh the sanctimonious holier than thou hath spoken.
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Wherever the line is drawn, there'll be assholes who want to push it to make some kind of dumb-ass freedom of speech comment, like those that think they need to teach about homosexuality in kindergarten.
My niece who is 5 years old asked me yesterday why those two gentlemen in the train were kissing.
Now, oh wise one, guardian of the moral rectitude and the correct free speech, tell me how do we hide the real world [tm] from children without somehow explaining it (in the kindergarten, the train or at home).
To follow teachings based on old writings done by sheperds is a sign of a bright intelligence.
Moreso if one denies any facts that undermine those teachings and ignores all the contradictions poured in those teachings' wisdom.
I agree with the original poster, most religious people need to put to sleep their critical thinking (i.e. become stoopid) to be able to fit such ludicrous claims as religion does with daily life.
There may be stupid people that is also very nice, but that does not mean they are not stupid.
Examples:
Osama bin Laden (ha! the Quoran says one should not commit suicide, nevertheless I train suicide bombers).
The Pope (no to contraceptives. Intimate relations are only permissible if they have the purpose to procreate).
US religious right (abortion=murder).
I could go on and on, but religous people become so predictible that you can come with examples of your own I am sure.
You can perfectly teach technical subjects without forgetting the reason these tools came to exist in the first place.
If you want that wonderkids don't have problems down the line in 5 or 10 years what a better moment to educate them. The Napster guy comes to mind: made something very useful but was completely unaware of the consequences out of the technical sphere. Any good technician, engineer of computer user should not dissociate himself from the wider issues that surround computing.
Teaching is not indoctrination, you can say "Linux costs nothing and you are free to modify it as you wish, Windows costs 150 (or whatever, I do not know neither care) and you are explicitly forbidden to make any modifications" and you are being absolutely spot on. If that sounds like indoctrination, tough luck, it sounds like information to me.
Indoctrination reads more like "You should use Linux because I say so", education is "You should use Linux for this, and this and that reason".
These children will have many chances to be exposed to people with other opinions, so I don't see any reason why we should be shy to teach political stuff that is perfectly pertinent to a technological subject.
1. Don't politicize your teaching. The last thing the world needs are more brain-blocked hysterical zealots.
And then in a show of defiance of common logic:
4. Teach them what is good about open source and why it exists and what it's all about. Don't let them grow up to be confused thinking that "free" means "I should get everything for free" instead of "freedom"
And then, to descontextualize everything:
Don't mention RMS.
The fear of some people to take a principled stand is quite amusing, the fear to treat young people like idiots is even worst. Passivity is to take a political position as well, the worst one if you ask me.
I am a fscking rabid capitalist, lover of personal property.
Get that in your anonymous cowardly brain.
But property does not exist in a vacuum, and whatever Maggie Thatcher told you, there is such a thing as society. Do not believe me? He, give me your address, I need somewhere to dump my rubish.
Property without assuming responsibility for that property is a nice construct of people like you (i.e. Anonymous Cowards) that has no place in the lifes of real people.
One of them should be to help clean out the mess your commercial activity creates, if you enter a market in which big businesses are already established then you are in trouble, if you enter a niche market then you will be OK, what we can't do is continue ignoring the costs of our habits.
Correct! Do nothing. Ignore the costs that pollution have in the economy (eventually somebody has to clean the mess) and lets ignore the alarmist zealots that dare to suggest that dumping chemicals and plastics in landfills may not be such a brilliant idea.What a bunch of idiots...
You seem too worried about consumer rights but very unconcerned about consumer moral obligations (that in some instances should be reflected in enforceable laws).
And you also forget that consumers are also tax payers. Your pitiful attempt at creating sympathy for poor consumers blissfully ignores that they will have to foot the bill of the Mother of all Cleanups. How charming of you.
Do you think that people carried around skulls for hundreds or thusends of kilometers then?
The most likely explanation is that the owner of the skull either lived or was travelling in today's Mexico City area long time ago, earlier than previously belived.
Tell me wise one, how do you measure a 7th of an inch? Show me your ruler.
Now, which every day tasks was you teacher talking about? What is difficult about measuring 20, 30 , 70 or 90 centimeters of something?
Is 6 feet easier to comprehend than 2.4 meters? How easy it is to comprehend 3 and 13/16 feet. ANd can you comprehend 3 meters? Convert that to English system and let me know how clear is that.
And that is not all, apart from shear memorization, how do you realte units of volume and lebght in ENglish system? In the metric system you just keep multiplying. In the English system? A bushel? A gallon? how does that relate to the feet and inches? They don't.
Your teacher reasoning was simplistic, but alas, his problems were small. A good system, like the metric, addresses those small problems and the big ones in an elegant scalable manner easy for anybody toi understand.
Can you kindly tell us in which sense it is better 8footx4foot than 1220x2440mm? Inquiring minds want to know.
And of course in metric system you would ask for something measuring 3 meters, not 3050 mm unless you need perfect exactitude, in which case one would ask for something measuring 3 meters and 5 centimeters, which neatly converts to 3050mm without major mental exertion.
Neither we ask for 1.2324232424 litres of milk (or wahtever a paint is), we buy 1 litre of milk. Or half a litre if you don't want to drink much.
Neither we buy 435.4534364362235 grams of meat, we order half a kg or if we are really annoying we ask for 400 grams.
The problem is that as long as you don't use and embrace a system regularly you will continue thinking in the old system all the time.
... and it royaly pisses me off that all around the world I can use the metric system and is only in the US and the UK that some backwards nostalgic traders try to please 2 or 3 even more backwards and nostalgic people (normaly crumpy old farts) selling using Imperial system.
All younger people understand metric, and it is not rocket science even for the older folk (in the UK they moved to a decimal system of currency replacing the previous cumbersome one that nobody in the UK seems to miss much).
I am also a client, I may not be British, but with the constant movement of people around Europe and the world it only makes sense to use the same system that as a bonus is easier to use.
And as regarding putting people in jail: that is done as a protection to the consumer, to ensure that consumers have a reliable measurements system all of them can refer to. This happens everywhere, so don't try to make heroes of people that lack common sense.
Anythoing that bores the mythical average viewer is in general adressing important or interesting issues that require a longer development and a cinemagoer willing to be engaged in the cinematic experience.
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Honestly, some people enjoy abuse. Masochists.
It is not that anybody objects to companies making a buck the way they see fit.
The whole point is that they put forward a legal commitment to refund you some money and then they completely ignore that commitment.
I did not ask for it, you did not ask for it: they offered it, they bound themselves to give you your money back if you don't accept the EULA.
Why is that such a difficult concept to grasp for some people?
Jeeez.
That is why other sites moderate heavily postings before allowing them to see the FP daylight.
The Jedi thing is one of the most stupid paragraphs I have read in several days, with so many politicians in the news recently that is a very damning statement.
The defintion of "kids-safe" of Big Brother is the one we all should obey. Big Brother is all wise and fair. And he loves us and the children (unless you are a fucking gay, swear too much, or dare to enjoy sex for no reproductive purposes. You terrorist).
I want my soma and my ration of soylen green!
Wherever the line is drawn, there'll be assholes who want to push it to make some kind of dumb-ass freedom of speech comment, like those that think they need to teach about homosexuality in kindergarten.
My niece who is 5 years old asked me yesterday why those two gentlemen in the train were kissing.
Now, oh wise one, guardian of the moral rectitude and the correct free speech, tell me how do we hide the real world [tm] from children without somehow explaining it (in the kindergarten, the train or at home).
What about some troll got this guy's name and posted pretending he was him.
A half serious journalistic outlet would have got in touch with this person requesting to know if he posted that and his opinion in the matter.
Inquiring minds want to know.
Another tear-jerker of techno-serfs pretending that slaving in a keyboard is somehow artistic.
/.ers are the hope of a sane technological future I am betting in favour of Palladium, MS and the DMCA....
Most unpleasent.
When we program we invent something new every time!
I wish we had payed more attention to concepts like code reuse.
And then the cavaliers that say it is better to be high in drugs in opossition to apply sensible Engineering techniques to software design.
If
Any task well done pleases an specialist of the same field.
That is all tired.
If it was not for the use of Evolution as a scientific tool many people today will be sick and starving.
Google for AIDS adn mutation and have fun.
To follow teachings based on old writings done by sheperds is a sign of a bright intelligence.
Moreso if one denies any facts that undermine those teachings and ignores all the contradictions poured in those teachings' wisdom.
I agree with the original poster, most religious people need to put to sleep their critical thinking (i.e. become stoopid) to be able to fit such ludicrous claims as religion does with daily life.
There may be stupid people that is also very nice, but that does not mean they are not stupid.
Examples:
Osama bin Laden (ha! the Quoran says one should not commit suicide, nevertheless I train suicide bombers).
The Pope (no to contraceptives. Intimate relations are only permissible if they have the purpose to procreate).
US religious right (abortion=murder).
I could go on and on, but religous people become so predictible that you can come with examples of your own I am sure.
You can perfectly teach technical subjects without forgetting the reason these tools came to exist in the first place.
If you want that wonderkids don't have problems down the line in 5 or 10 years what a better moment to educate them. The Napster guy comes to mind: made something very useful but was completely unaware of the consequences out of the technical sphere. Any good technician, engineer of computer user should not dissociate himself from the wider issues that surround computing.
Teaching is not indoctrination, you can say "Linux costs nothing and you are free to modify it as you wish, Windows costs 150 (or whatever, I do not know neither care) and you are explicitly forbidden to make any modifications" and you are being absolutely spot on. If that sounds like indoctrination, tough luck, it sounds like information to me.
Indoctrination reads more like "You should use Linux because I say so", education is "You should use Linux for this, and this and that reason".
These children will have many chances to be exposed to people with other opinions, so I don't see any reason why we should be shy to teach political stuff that is perfectly pertinent to a technological subject.
1. Don't politicize your teaching. The last thing the world needs are more brain-blocked hysterical zealots.
And then in a show of defiance of common logic:
4. Teach them what is good about open source and why it exists and what it's all about. Don't let them grow up to be confused thinking that "free" means "I should get everything for free" instead of "freedom"
And then, to descontextualize everything:
Don't mention RMS.
The fear of some people to take a principled stand is quite amusing, the fear to treat young people like idiots is even worst. Passivity is to take a political position as well, the worst one if you ask me.
One week, one week, one week.
Not one year.
... but I will respond to you, AC.
I am a fscking rabid capitalist, lover of personal property.
Get that in your anonymous cowardly brain.
But property does not exist in a vacuum, and whatever Maggie Thatcher told you, there is such a thing as society. Do not believe me? He, give me your address, I need somewhere to dump my rubish.
Property without assuming responsibility for that property is a nice construct of people like you (i.e. Anonymous Cowards) that has no place in the lifes of real people.
One of them should be to help clean out the mess your commercial activity creates, if you enter a market in which big businesses are already established then you are in trouble, if you enter a niche market then you will be OK, what we can't do is continue ignoring the costs of our habits.
Correct! Do nothing. Ignore the costs that pollution have in the economy (eventually somebody has to clean the mess) and lets ignore the alarmist zealots that dare to suggest that dumping chemicals and plastics in landfills may not be such a brilliant idea.What a bunch of idiots...
You seem too worried about consumer rights but very unconcerned about consumer moral obligations (that in some instances should be reflected in enforceable laws).
And you also forget that consumers are also tax payers. Your pitiful attempt at creating sympathy for poor consumers blissfully ignores that they will have to foot the bill of the Mother of all Cleanups. How charming of you.
.... we have other methods to corroborate if C14 dating is the right ball park.
Do you think that people carried around skulls for hundreds or thusends of kilometers then?
The most likely explanation is that the owner of the skull either lived or was travelling in today's Mexico City area long time ago, earlier than previously belived.
When I'm cooking, the scale of gallon/4= quart/2 =pint (a pound of water) /2 =cup/8 =ounce/2 =tablespoon/3 =teaspoon works quite well
And then people ask why metric is easier.
Tell me wise one, how do you measure a 7th of an inch? Show me your ruler.
Now, which every day tasks was you teacher talking about? What is difficult about measuring 20, 30 , 70 or 90 centimeters of something?
Is 6 feet easier to comprehend than 2.4 meters? How easy it is to comprehend 3 and 13/16 feet. ANd can you comprehend 3 meters? Convert that to English system and let me know how clear is that.
And that is not all, apart from shear memorization, how do you realte units of volume and lebght in ENglish system? In the metric system you just keep multiplying. In the English system? A bushel? A gallon? how does that relate to the feet and inches? They don't.
Your teacher reasoning was simplistic, but alas, his problems were small. A good system, like the metric, addresses those small problems and the big ones in an elegant scalable manner easy for anybody toi understand.
Miles, furlongs, feet, inches. Yikes!
Can you kindly tell us in which sense it is better 8footx4foot than 1220x2440mm? Inquiring minds want to know.
And of course in metric system you would ask for something measuring 3 meters, not 3050 mm unless you need perfect exactitude, in which case one would ask for something measuring 3 meters and 5 centimeters, which neatly converts to 3050mm without major mental exertion.
Neither we ask for 1.2324232424 litres of milk (or wahtever a paint is), we buy 1 litre of milk. Or half a litre if you don't want to drink much.
Neither we buy 435.4534364362235 grams of meat, we order half a kg or if we are really annoying we ask for 400 grams.
The problem is that as long as you don't use and embrace a system regularly you will continue thinking in the old system all the time.
... and it royaly pisses me off that all around the world I can use the metric system and is only in the US and the UK that some backwards nostalgic traders try to please 2 or 3 even more backwards and nostalgic people (normaly crumpy old farts) selling using Imperial system.
All younger people understand metric, and it is not rocket science even for the older folk (in the UK they moved to a decimal system of currency replacing the previous cumbersome one that nobody in the UK seems to miss much).
I am also a client, I may not be British, but with the constant movement of people around Europe and the world it only makes sense to use the same system that as a bonus is easier to use.
And as regarding putting people in jail: that is done as a protection to the consumer, to ensure that consumers have a reliable measurements system all of them can refer to. This happens everywhere, so don't try to make heroes of people that lack common sense.
Mandrake and many other installations are as easy (or difficult) to install as whatever MS offering of MS.
And now, tell me something: how do you customize a corporate install for MS platform and then install it in 20, 200 or 2000 machines?
I would tell you how to do it in Linux, but I guess you would clasify that as MS hate speech.
it is telling that you (and many others) Y-A-W-N at good Sci-Fi that makes you think in a visually interesting setting and that was nicely acted.
In enhances the standing of the movie and, well, pearls for the pigs comes to mind.
Anythoing that bores the mythical average viewer is in general adressing important or interesting issues that require a longer development and a cinemagoer willing to be engaged in the cinematic experience.
I'am ordering my tickets now.
You are talking Andrei Tarkovsky here. One of the greatest cinematographers.
Such a passing mention of that film and that director shows that you should keep your film reviews to yourself.