As a New Zealander, all I can say is:
For the love of God, get me out of this P F@#$%$# C hellhole now!
Some facts for those who want to feel sorry for us:
- Ngai Tahu has had two "full and final" settlements awarded to it in the past 50 years.
- If a Maori does worse in any way, in anything, than me, that's my fault. Not my long dead ancestors. Not their long dead ancestors. And certainly not their own fault! Oh no, it's mine.
(This is the meaning of "Equal Opportunity" according to one of my management lecturers*)
- At the University I study at, Medical school is competitive entry (surprise surprise). But there are two guaranteed spots for Maori. If there are only two Maori doing first year Health Sci, and they come somewhere near the middle, they are admitted to 2nd year Med - ahead of people who scored significantly better than them.
Can you imagine the reaction if there were two guaranteed spots for whites? Or foreign students?
- Again, in the medical school, if you fail a course, thats it basically - your out. But if your one of the magic two then you can resit. And if you fail again, you get extra, personal help from your tutors and lecturers. And if you fail again, they will essentially sit beside you in the exam and talk you through it.
Needless to say this is hideously unfair to the smart, hard working Maori who end up as brilliant doctors, but get unfairly tarnished with the PFC brush.
- Last year, the Maori were awarded several cellphone spectra to auction off. The "professional" legal reasoning behind this was that, in the form of visible light from the stars, the Maori used the electromagnetic spectrum to navigate to New Zealand, hence, under the Treaty of Waitangi, they have a lien on this electromagnetic spectrum.
- The Maori weren't even here first - the Moriori (sp?) were here some centuries before. There aren't any left today because the Maori's killed them all. If they want us to own up to what our ancestors did then they can damn well do the same.
If saying that this situation is wrong makes me racist, then f%$# it, I'm a racist, and proud of it.
*Management is bad for soooooooooo many reasons it's not funny.
It was good, but essentially their society is the same as ours is today. Yet if you compare modern, western society to mediaeval western society you will see significant differences.
My personal opinion: Eon and Eternity, a two book series by Greg Bear (IIRC) are the best sci-fi I have ever read. The scope and sweep is so incredible it's breathtaking. And, more importantly in terms of realism, it depicts a human society totally alien to what we have today. We, as a society, probably won't look like the humans of Eon and Eternity, but I would bet a lot of money that we won't look (as a society) as we do today.
JM2C.
Lets see.
Bill Gates are Larry Ellison perhaps the two most famous uni drop outs. Obviously their life works deserve to be mocked.
He's a multi-millionare due to the numerous childrens toy's he's invented through his own creativity and entrepreneurship. Naturally, that is an "achievement" worthy of mockery.
He's now spent two years of his life attempting to do something only government agencies have previously suceeded at.
If he fails, so what? At least he's acted on his dreams, and not spent his life cutting down tall poppies.
It doesn't beat your's for style, but for quanitity (and as we all know from MART 101, frequency counts!)...
In the space of 24 hours, my hotmail account received somewhere on the order of 12 thousand emails, suggesting I order some viagra for only 4.98 per 100mg:P
Why they thought 12000 adverts would convince me more than one I don't know - but then again, maybe they were right, since it actually got me to look in my spam block folder for once when I saw it had ballooned to many many megs...:)
Actually, I use namespaces a lot, mainly for logically seperating different modules of a program (timing, input, sound, graphics etc etc).
True, I could do this another way - directorys or name prefixes perhaps, but namespaces is a lot more elegant in my opinion, and errors can be caught at compile time, rather than link time which leads to much more helpful error messages.
JM2C
Actually, there have been a number of successful, practical uses of AI.
Unfortunately I don't have any of my AI books to hand, so I can only provide a limited number of examples.
MYCIN was basically a medical diagnosis program dealing with a fairly narrow field - I forget exactly what - however in blind tests with human experts it scored in the middle of the pack, and it was used in real hospitals for real diagnosis.
Likewise, DEC used a knowledge-base to configure their VAXes, and, as far as I know, probably still do use it, or a similar one, in their current products (anyone have more info?).
Then of course, the best chess player in the world is Deep Blue...
Suffice to say, that AI, while it improves slowly, improves steadily, and there are a large number of practical, real world applications for it already.
Don't blame the porn industry for handing us a mirror to see how disgusting we are. The problem is not porn, the problem is men who hate women
I'm going to, if I may, focus entirely on this wee statement here, for the simple reason that I see a minor problem with the logic...
Why exactly does it follow that men who watch porn hate women? What about women who watch porn? Do they hate men? Or women? Do the men who watch porn hate men? Or do they hate the men in porn? If not, why just the women in porn?
I think you see what I'm getting at here...
And that is quite apart from my belief and experience that men and women watch porn for a fantasy experience - and I don't know many people who fantasise about hating members of the opposite sex.
Do people fantasise about doing things to people they hate? Maybe, but fantasising about hating a random actor on a video? Now _that_ is weird.
Regarding the metal connectors, there are already various polymers that will conduct electricity. Presumably some variant could be found that could be sprayed on like ink to form the conducting paths.
But on a related note... how would you plug your paper CPU into your paper motherboard?
It won't melt... it's made of paper remember: it will BURN!!
"Yeah, I was trying to overclock my new CPU to 6.5GHz, and the damn thing overheated, caught fire, and burnt my mother board, my video card, my hard drive and my screen to ash... Yeah I'm printing another box now."
If you were to play the character of Hamlet, be sure not to illegally gain access to and make alterations in a Kent State University web
server. To do so not only damages the contents, disrupts the system, but also is a felony in the State of Ohio.
(The Hamlet reference refers to my email where I compared arresting a trash talker with arresting an actor who plays Hamlet for killing the actor who plays his Uncle.)
IMHO, this kind of stuff shouldn't be allowed to continue, so, I suggest (and am probably already beaten to) an email campaign:
The email address for the Chief of the Campus police is:
mailto:U301@peale.kent.edu
(His name is John Peach)
And their webpage is:
http://dept.kent.edu/vph/police/ksupd.htm
My humble suggestion: a brief email explaining, politely, why this is idiocy, and then a request for an answer/explanation/refutation of what you emailed. Then if he doesn't reply, kindly remail him your message asking him why he doesn't answer.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Slashdot Mirror
As a New Zealander, all I can say is:
For the love of God, get me out of this P F@#$%$# C hellhole now!
Some facts for those who want to feel sorry for us:
- Ngai Tahu has had two "full and final" settlements awarded to it in the past 50 years.
- If a Maori does worse in any way, in anything, than me, that's my fault. Not my long dead ancestors. Not their long dead ancestors. And certainly not their own fault! Oh no, it's mine.
(This is the meaning of "Equal Opportunity" according to one of my management lecturers*)
- At the University I study at, Medical school is competitive entry (surprise surprise). But there are two guaranteed spots for Maori. If there are only two Maori doing first year Health Sci, and they come somewhere near the middle, they are admitted to 2nd year Med - ahead of people who scored significantly better than them.
Can you imagine the reaction if there were two guaranteed spots for whites? Or foreign students?
- Again, in the medical school, if you fail a course, thats it basically - your out. But if your one of the magic two then you can resit. And if you fail again, you get extra, personal help from your tutors and lecturers. And if you fail again, they will essentially sit beside you in the exam and talk you through it.
Needless to say this is hideously unfair to the smart, hard working Maori who end up as brilliant doctors, but get unfairly tarnished with the PFC brush.
- Last year, the Maori were awarded several cellphone spectra to auction off. The "professional" legal reasoning behind this was that, in the form of visible light from the stars, the Maori used the electromagnetic spectrum to navigate to New Zealand, hence, under the Treaty of Waitangi, they have a lien on this electromagnetic spectrum.
- The Maori weren't even here first - the Moriori (sp?) were here some centuries before. There aren't any left today because the Maori's killed them all. If they want us to own up to what our ancestors did then they can damn well do the same.
If saying that this situation is wrong makes me racist, then f%$# it, I'm a racist, and proud of it.
*Management is bad for soooooooooo many reasons it's not funny.
It was good, but essentially their society is the same as ours is today. Yet if you compare modern, western society to mediaeval western society you will see significant differences. My personal opinion: Eon and Eternity, a two book series by Greg Bear (IIRC) are the best sci-fi I have ever read. The scope and sweep is so incredible it's breathtaking. And, more importantly in terms of realism, it depicts a human society totally alien to what we have today. We, as a society, probably won't look like the humans of Eon and Eternity, but I would bet a lot of money that we won't look (as a society) as we do today. JM2C.
You moron.
Lets see.
Bill Gates are Larry Ellison perhaps the two most famous uni drop outs. Obviously their life works deserve to be mocked.
He's a multi-millionare due to the numerous childrens toy's he's invented through his own creativity and entrepreneurship. Naturally, that is an "achievement" worthy of mockery.
He's now spent two years of his life attempting to do something only government agencies have previously suceeded at.
If he fails, so what? At least he's acted on his dreams, and not spent his life cutting down tall poppies.
F**k the armchair generals.
Doubtme
It doesn't beat your's for style, but for quanitity (and as we all know from MART 101, frequency counts!)...
In the space of 24 hours, my hotmail account received somewhere on the order of 12 thousand emails, suggesting I order some viagra for only 4.98 per 100mg :P
Why they thought 12000 adverts would convince me more than one I don't know - but then again, maybe they were right, since it actually got me to look in my spam block folder for once when I saw it had ballooned to many many megs... :)
Been done before. :)
Saw it in an Air and Space mag about 6-8 months ago for memory.
To lazy to go drag it out though
Save us from those dastardly Chinese! How dare they look after their own interests ahead of ours!
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http://www.satirewire.com/news/0103/usfirst.sht
Actually, I use namespaces a lot, mainly for logically seperating different modules of a program (timing, input, sound, graphics etc etc). True, I could do this another way - directorys or name prefixes perhaps, but namespaces is a lot more elegant in my opinion, and errors can be caught at compile time, rather than link time which leads to much more helpful error messages. JM2C
Actually, there have been a number of successful, practical uses of AI.
Unfortunately I don't have any of my AI books to hand, so I can only provide a limited number of examples.
MYCIN was basically a medical diagnosis program dealing with a fairly narrow field - I forget exactly what - however in blind tests with human experts it scored in the middle of the pack, and it was used in real hospitals for real diagnosis.
Likewise, DEC used a knowledge-base to configure their VAXes, and, as far as I know, probably still do use it, or a similar one, in their current products (anyone have more info?).
Then of course, the best chess player in the world is Deep Blue...
Suffice to say, that AI, while it improves slowly, improves steadily, and there are a large number of practical, real world applications for it already.
Actually, by induction you could shorten it to a program with zero lines of code and one bug - presumably a compiler-created bug.
Whether or not you could reduce it to a negative size I don't know, but I suspect that that would introduce yet more bugs...
I'm going to, if I may, focus entirely on this wee statement here, for the simple reason that I see a minor problem with the logic...
Why exactly does it follow that men who watch porn hate women? What about women who watch porn? Do they hate men? Or women? Do the men who watch porn hate men? Or do they hate the men in porn? If not, why just the women in porn?
I think you see what I'm getting at here...
And that is quite apart from my belief and experience that men and women watch porn for a fantasy experience - and I don't know many people who fantasise about hating members of the opposite sex.
Do people fantasise about doing things to people they hate? Maybe, but fantasising about hating a random actor on a video? Now _that_ is weird.
Regarding the metal connectors, there are already various polymers that will conduct electricity. Presumably some variant could be found that could be sprayed on like ink to form the conducting paths. But on a related note... how would you plug your paper CPU into your paper motherboard?
It won't melt... it's made of paper remember: it will BURN!! "Yeah, I was trying to overclock my new CPU to 6.5GHz, and the damn thing overheated, caught fire, and burnt my mother board, my video card, my hard drive and my screen to ash... Yeah I'm printing another box now."
If you were to play the character of Hamlet, be sure not to illegally gain access to and make alterations in a Kent State University web server. To do so not only damages the contents, disrupts the system, but also is a felony in the State of Ohio. (The Hamlet reference refers to my email where I compared arresting a trash talker with arresting an actor who plays Hamlet for killing the actor who plays his Uncle.)
IMHO, this kind of stuff shouldn't be allowed to continue, so, I suggest (and am probably already beaten to) an email campaign:
The email address for the Chief of the Campus police is:
mailto:U301@peale.kent.edu
(His name is John Peach)
And their webpage is:
http://dept.kent.edu/vph/police/ksupd.htm
My humble suggestion: a brief email explaining, politely, why this is idiocy, and then a request for an answer/explanation/refutation of what you emailed. Then if he doesn't reply, kindly remail him your message asking him why he doesn't answer.
Wash, rinse, repeat.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
Doubtme