The first video posted shows the first quarter of the guy being tazered. I'm seeing a lot of, "this guy deserved it" posts, but try saying that again after watching this video.
He's cuffed, and being dragged by 4 guys. He's been tazered so much he can't move, and they keep saying "get up or we'll tazer you again". I count at least 4 LONG tazings, after the original video stops, before I just stopped watching, and I was only half way through.
Whether or not he deserved the initial response from the first video is ambiguous, but he was CLEARLY a victim of police brutality, and excessive force in the second.
what's the cost difference between an 80 gig and a 160 gig drive these days? not much. Thank you for making my point. Space is so cheap, there's no excuse for Only having 16 Gigs on a video device.
So it's $50 more for one 10th the storage of the regular ipod. Hmmm... nope, I don't think so. You have all this video ability in this device, but not enough space to really make use of it, and it costs MORE than a similar device with 10x the storage. I expect a premium, but not that big a premium.
Then again, this is an apple product, so I guess it's par for the course.
He had prior boxing experience, and trained for 4 months in order to kick ass on some geeks with no fighting experience (except for the 17 year old with a little experience, you go big man).
Am I surprised he won, no, but it would have been fun to see one of the geeks take the same interest and have boned up on how to throw a punch. That having been said, it's not like I think he deserves any more respect than the zero respect I already have for him thanks to that stunt.
Frankly I for one would have liked to have shot in that ring, but 1) I'm just some guy, not really relevant except that I think Uwe's a douche. 2) I know how to fight, which I think disqualifies me. 3) I'm a couple pounds out of the weight class he restricted it to, so even if I was somebody "important", I'm disqualified.
While "copying" for pay content may be wrong, it isn't "stealing". Stealing requires there to be a physical removal of something, such that when you "steal" it, the original owner no longer possesses it. Hence why there's a separate charge for copyright infringement.
But I do think it's poor form for Zonk to be suggesting this is acceptable behavior.
Yeah, there it is. So the hard part of setting a precident has already been done, though someone still has to jump through the hoops of challenging comcast's version.
To save anyone having to follow the link, I will reveal the principle and relevant use of the word:
1) to form possessives of nouns Microsoft is the noun, the campaign belongs to it, hence "it's Anti-Linux Campaign" is the correct spelling.
The use of the apostrophe is not limited to the following:
2) to show the omission of letters 3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.
Those refer to the level of difficulty of the courses, they don't restrict you by telling you what subjects you MUST take, which is what the proposed Florida system would do.
I think they've made a lot of bad decisions with the education system, at least here in Ontario. I agree with the point you made about not telling people they need to be a level lower. Destreaming is useless (Where they dropped the basic/general/advanced stuff from grade 9). Then there's the fact that it's almost impossible to fail someone in grade school now (my mom's a grade 2-3 teacher, and it frustrates her endlessly that she can't hold children back who need it, because it might be discouraging). And I think dropping grade 13 (OAC) was a mistake too.
Between destreaming grade 9, and dropping grade 13, it's almost like high school is 3 years long. It's just not enough time. And dropping grade 13 adds an extra year to university, which adds a lot to an already expensive endeavor.
If the title of the/. article had read: "HS Students Allowed to Specialize", would there have been this uproar?
Um... no I suppose if the title was wrong there wouldn't be an uproar. Allowed != Forced It's pretty basic. The rest of your comments are equally wrong.
* There are four main ways to improve an economy; specialization is one of them. That's what we're discussing here. Have you noticed that we haven't seen any Mozart's or Chaplin's lately? Given any thought as to why? They essentially _majored_ in their field at an early age and stayed with it! Where in the US will you find an educational system that will allow specialization at an early age? Home school. That's it. Until this plan came along. I'm not claiming it's perfect, but specialization isn't the Big Bad Wolf.
There are lots of ways of improving an economy, many of which are socially damaging or outright immoral. If they work (and I still question this way would) it doesn't change the fact that they're wrong. As for Mozart, etc. your argument is speculative at best, seeing as Mozart was composing by age 5, which is BEFORE we put children in kindergarten. Mozart was special beyond his education, he was a savant.
*I suspect that most of you how have responded negatively haven't taught high school or college, ever. We have high schools that turn out students who need Basic and Intermediate Algebra and sometimes Remedial Composition I _and_ II in college. Something must change in public school systems. At least if an older student can pursue something s/he finds relevant, there would be initiative to pursue quality work. That might help a the students who recognize that public school is a jail from which they can't escape until they turn 18.
I had a hard time with this "point" because it talks about a lot of fairly different things, yet draws no conclusion. Needless to say I think it's not important for people to have taught high school in order to have an opinion about high school, seeing as most of us have been through it, and remember it. The rest doesn't actually seem to say anything about specialization at all.
*As for the 'let the kids be kids!' argument: crap. They demand to be treated like adults when it comes to sex, alcohol, drugs, and the use of a parent's car. But when they enter the school, they want Mommy and Daddy to threaten a lawsuit if their homework becomes "too hard". As others have posted, we're facing fierce competition in India and Asia from hyper-educated grads who are willing to work for $1/hour. It's time to throw out the idea of a leisurely stroll through K-12 or K-BS.
This is a straw man argument. We can let kids be kids, or not, and specialize, or not. The 2 don't necessarily affect each other. And if I had a 13 year old (the age we're talking about starting specializing at) having sex, drinking, doing drugs, and using my car, I think there would be bigger problems than what they took in school. And the "hyper-educated" foreign workforce doesn't have anything to do with specialization either.
*Re: 'They don't know what they want to do yet!' Do they want to eat? Do they want to be able to move out of Mommy and Daddy's house and live on their own? If so, they need money. If they can't inherit it, they'll have to work for it. That requires a job. A job requires training. They may not like it, but I won't pay for their Welfare checks just because they couldn't find the inspiration to be a fill-in-the-blank.
Fact: people need to work for money(Unless they inherit it/whatever). Fact: you need to be trained for any job, no matter how simple. How does this mean someone in grade 9 needs to know what they want to be when they grow up?
*And if they don't know what they want to do yet, then we, the adults, with scars on our bodies from what Life was done to us, have the right to choose for them. They're not adults yet. If they were, they'd pay taxes and have
It doesn't change handedness, but is available in either one. It's not built into a device, but it is available in bluetooth. With the right device it could be pretty cool.
You say "thermal properties" really means "heat", then say "thermal properties" have nothing to do with "(heat)". Huh?
Ok, let me be clear here. The speed and direction of a molecule's motion would be the "properties" that govern the "heat" it has stored, hence they could be called... that's right, "thermal properties". I suppose I could have just said "the motion and direction of the molecules, which determines the substances heat", I guess I'll know better next time.
I never said anything about the feasibility of transportation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, or anything else. Just that stuff won't suddenly freeze if you _could_ transport it, because the "snapshot" you take (asuming you can take one) will (in theory) include information pertaining to the temperature of the object.
It's really funny that you'll jump all over my head for saying "thermal properties" but think mystery freezing is perfectly acceptable.
Actually I chose clay for exactly that reason. The particles you use to reconstruct someone/thing, whether you make the particles or just have tanks of them or something, would be of whatever temperature they're at, not suddenly become absolute zero as the original post suggested.
I don't know if it would need to be "instantaneous". There's a bunch of possibilities, especially if you have some idea of the quantum state you started with, which should "in theory" let you figure out what it would change to for the next time slice (Planck Second?) when you make the next atom/molecule/whatever. It's all kinda sementic until you actually have a "this is the method we've decided to try" type of theory in front of you. That having been said, I think it's a given that any miscalculations would end up with a very thorough mess of whatever you were originally trying to transport.
That's a good point. If the Wii could use any standard bluetooth Keyboard, that would be pretty cool too. Mind you it'd be nice to be able to plug usb keyboards in too, just cause I think more people have them than bluetooth. At least for the moment.
I'd rather see a keyboard attachment for the WiiMote, though if the Wii got a firmware update that allowed it to accept any USB keyboard, that would be basically awesome.
I'm pretty sure you're way off base on that one. You're taking a "snapshot" of every property of every atom/sub-atomic particle in an object, and reassembling it. Which would by proxy include thermal properties.
Also, when you make a sculpture from clay, the clay doesn't magically freeze because it's a still, it started at room temperature, so it stays there. So the "stuff" (technical term) you reassemble someone with just needs to start at room temperature, or whatever temperature is appropriate.
If we're talking about the rediculous ammount of power required to break a person down, and reconstitute them, and the unfathomable ammount of data involved, I think making sure we get the temperature right should be child's play by comparison.
You don't need to have gone through something to be in a position to talk about it. Going through it may give you more insight (I say "may" 'cause some people are apparently immune to insight), but that's it. You don't get the right to say someone's opinion is invalid for not going through it anymore than telling someone who's experience differed from yours that they're wrong too. This type of dismissal is one of the worst kind. "Here's my opinion, and you can't say anything about it." Absolute rubbish.
That having been said, it IS more logical to say she could just log off. No one is restraining her from clicking the appropriate button or whatever, as opposed to being held down in real life. If you mean that if the "victum" has been raped IRL that they may relive the trauma, fine, but we aren't talking about that. Rape is more than just physical (I think it's even legally defined as more), but it *includes* the physical. Being beaten isn't just physical, but it *includes* the physical. In the virtual, there's no physical, so it's not rape. It may be gross, tasteless, harassment, etc. It may even be a crime. It is not rape. If it were proper VR, maybe there would be a case, but it's not.
It's no more rape in second life than if I said, "I just cybered you. I'm finished. I had sex with you on slashdot. LOL". Is that rape too? What if I kill someone in a 3D shooter? Am I a murderer?
There are people who are sensitive in certain ways, I'm not going to make the call as to what qualifies as over sensitive. This could be quite traumatic if it happened to those people. The laws on the other hand are there to deal with the general case. The way most people would deal with this (I would hope) is, "dude, that's sick, I'm gonna complain to admin about this".
That's "arsepiles" and shitloads. After all they're imperial and metric respectively. I'm from Canada, so I'm not to sure what the arsepile conversion is...
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Whoops, my bad. Looked/sounded the same though...
The first video posted shows the first quarter of the guy being tazered. I'm seeing a lot of, "this guy deserved it" posts, but try saying that again after watching this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyvrqcxNIFs
He's cuffed, and being dragged by 4 guys. He's been tazered so much he can't move, and they keep saying "get up or we'll tazer you again". I count at least 4 LONG tazings, after the original video stops, before I just stopped watching, and I was only half way through.
Whether or not he deserved the initial response from the first video is ambiguous, but he was CLEARLY a victim of police brutality, and excessive force in the second.
So it's $50 more for one 10th the storage of the regular ipod. Hmmm... nope, I don't think so. You have all this video ability in this device, but not enough space to really make use of it, and it costs MORE than a similar device with 10x the storage. I expect a premium, but not that big a premium.
Then again, this is an apple product, so I guess it's par for the course.
He had prior boxing experience, and trained for 4 months in order to kick ass on some geeks with no fighting experience (except for the 17 year old with a little experience, you go big man).
;)
Am I surprised he won, no, but it would have been fun to see one of the geeks take the same interest and have boned up on how to throw a punch. That having been said, it's not like I think he deserves any more respect than the zero respect I already have for him thanks to that stunt.
Frankly I for one would have liked to have shot in that ring, but 1) I'm just some guy, not really relevant except that I think Uwe's a douche. 2) I know how to fight, which I think disqualifies me. 3) I'm a couple pounds out of the weight class he restricted it to, so even if I was somebody "important", I'm disqualified.
Now... weren't we talking about Jack Thompson?
Pointed this out once already, but hey, I'm bored...
Copy != Steal
(Still wrong, just not the same thing as stealing)
Thanks.
You bought the hype.
While "copying" for pay content may be wrong, it isn't "stealing". Stealing requires there to be a physical removal of something, such that when you "steal" it, the original owner no longer possesses it. Hence why there's a separate charge for copyright infringement.
But I do think it's poor form for Zonk to be suggesting this is acceptable behavior.
Wasn't there a story recently about arbitration clauses being declared illegal? Checking...
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/19/2
Yeah, there it is. So the hard part of setting a precident has already been done, though someone still has to jump through the hoops of challenging comcast's version.
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_
To save anyone having to follow the link, I will reveal the principle and relevant use of the word: 1) to form possessives of nouns Microsoft is the noun, the campaign belongs to it, hence "it's Anti-Linux Campaign" is the correct spelling.
The use of the apostrophe is not limited to the following: 2) to show the omission of letters
3) to indicate certain plurals of lowercase letters.
Those refer to the level of difficulty of the courses, they don't restrict you by telling you what subjects you MUST take, which is what the proposed Florida system would do.
;)
I think they've made a lot of bad decisions with the education system, at least here in Ontario. I agree with the point you made about not telling people they need to be a level lower. Destreaming is useless (Where they dropped the basic/general/advanced stuff from grade 9). Then there's the fact that it's almost impossible to fail someone in grade school now (my mom's a grade 2-3 teacher, and it frustrates her endlessly that she can't hold children back who need it, because it might be discouraging). And I think dropping grade 13 (OAC) was a mistake too.
Between destreaming grade 9, and dropping grade 13, it's almost like high school is 3 years long. It's just not enough time. And dropping grade 13 adds an extra year to university, which adds a lot to an already expensive endeavor.
Guess I have a few peeves of my own.
If the title of the /. article had read: "HS Students Allowed to Specialize", would there have been this uproar?
Um... no I suppose if the title was wrong there wouldn't be an uproar. Allowed != Forced It's pretty basic. The rest of your comments are equally wrong.
* There are four main ways to improve an economy; specialization is one of them. That's what we're discussing here. Have you noticed that we haven't seen any Mozart's or Chaplin's lately? Given any thought as to why? They essentially _majored_ in their field at an early age and stayed with it! Where in the US will you find an educational system that will allow specialization at an early age? Home school. That's it. Until this plan came along. I'm not claiming it's perfect, but specialization isn't the Big Bad Wolf.
There are lots of ways of improving an economy, many of which are socially damaging or outright immoral. If they work (and I still question this way would) it doesn't change the fact that they're wrong. As for Mozart, etc. your argument is speculative at best, seeing as Mozart was composing by age 5, which is BEFORE we put children in kindergarten. Mozart was special beyond his education, he was a savant.
*I suspect that most of you how have responded negatively haven't taught high school or college, ever. We have high schools that turn out students who need Basic and Intermediate Algebra and sometimes Remedial Composition I _and_ II in college. Something must change in public school systems. At least if an older student can pursue something s/he finds relevant, there would be initiative to pursue quality work. That might help a the students who recognize that public school is a jail from which they can't escape until they turn 18.
I had a hard time with this "point" because it talks about a lot of fairly different things, yet draws no conclusion. Needless to say I think it's not important for people to have taught high school in order to have an opinion about high school, seeing as most of us have been through it, and remember it. The rest doesn't actually seem to say anything about specialization at all.
*As for the 'let the kids be kids!' argument: crap. They demand to be treated like adults when it comes to sex, alcohol, drugs, and the use of a parent's car. But when they enter the school, they want Mommy and Daddy to threaten a lawsuit if their homework becomes "too hard". As others have posted, we're facing fierce competition in India and Asia from hyper-educated grads who are willing to work for $1/hour. It's time to throw out the idea of a leisurely stroll through K-12 or K-BS.
This is a straw man argument. We can let kids be kids, or not, and specialize, or not. The 2 don't necessarily affect each other. And if I had a 13 year old (the age we're talking about starting specializing at) having sex, drinking, doing drugs, and using my car, I think there would be bigger problems than what they took in school. And the "hyper-educated" foreign workforce doesn't have anything to do with specialization either.
*Re: 'They don't know what they want to do yet!' Do they want to eat? Do they want to be able to move out of Mommy and Daddy's house and live on their own? If so, they need money. If they can't inherit it, they'll have to work for it. That requires a job. A job requires training. They may not like it, but I won't pay for their Welfare checks just because they couldn't find the inspiration to be a fill-in-the-blank.
Fact: people need to work for money(Unless they inherit it/whatever). Fact: you need to be trained for any job, no matter how simple. How does this mean someone in grade 9 needs to know what they want to be when they grow up?
*And if they don't know what they want to do yet, then we, the adults, with scars on our bodies from what Life was done to us, have the right to choose for them. They're not adults yet. If they were, they'd pay taxes and have
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http://www.frogpad.com/information/bluefroginfo.a
It doesn't change handedness, but is available in either one. It's not built into a device, but it is available in bluetooth. With the right device it could be pretty cool.
A bit offtopic but, did anyone else think this sounds like a plot device for a zombie movie?
Dude, you took the brown acid didn't you?
You really like to argue about nothing don't you?
Ok, from the top now...
You say "thermal properties" really means "heat", then say "thermal properties" have nothing to do with "(heat)". Huh?
Ok, let me be clear here. The speed and direction of a molecule's motion would be the "properties" that govern the "heat" it has stored, hence they could be called... that's right, "thermal properties". I suppose I could have just said "the motion and direction of the molecules, which determines the substances heat", I guess I'll know better next time.
I never said anything about the feasibility of transportation, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, or anything else. Just that stuff won't suddenly freeze if you _could_ transport it, because the "snapshot" you take (asuming you can take one) will (in theory) include information pertaining to the temperature of the object.
It's really funny that you'll jump all over my head for saying "thermal properties" but think mystery freezing is perfectly acceptable.
Actually I chose clay for exactly that reason. The particles you use to reconstruct someone/thing, whether you make the particles or just have tanks of them or something, would be of whatever temperature they're at, not suddenly become absolute zero as the original post suggested.
I don't know if it would need to be "instantaneous". There's a bunch of possibilities, especially if you have some idea of the quantum state you started with, which should "in theory" let you figure out what it would change to for the next time slice (Planck Second?) when you make the next atom/molecule/whatever. It's all kinda sementic until you actually have a "this is the method we've decided to try" type of theory in front of you. That having been said, I think it's a given that any miscalculations would end up with a very thorough mess of whatever you were originally trying to transport.
That's a good point. If the Wii could use any standard bluetooth Keyboard, that would be pretty cool too. Mind you it'd be nice to be able to plug usb keyboards in too, just cause I think more people have them than bluetooth. At least for the moment.
I'd rather see a keyboard attachment for the WiiMote, though if the Wii got a firmware update that allowed it to accept any USB keyboard, that would be basically awesome.
Asguard?
I'm pretty sure you're way off base on that one. You're taking a "snapshot" of every property of every atom/sub-atomic particle in an object, and reassembling it. Which would by proxy include thermal properties.
Also, when you make a sculpture from clay, the clay doesn't magically freeze because it's a still, it started at room temperature, so it stays there. So the "stuff" (technical term) you reassemble someone with just needs to start at room temperature, or whatever temperature is appropriate.
If we're talking about the rediculous ammount of power required to break a person down, and reconstitute them, and the unfathomable ammount of data involved, I think making sure we get the temperature right should be child's play by comparison.
You don't need to have gone through something to be in a position to talk about it. Going through it may give you more insight (I say "may" 'cause some people are apparently immune to insight), but that's it. You don't get the right to say someone's opinion is invalid for not going through it anymore than telling someone who's experience differed from yours that they're wrong too. This type of dismissal is one of the worst kind. "Here's my opinion, and you can't say anything about it." Absolute rubbish.
That having been said, it IS more logical to say she could just log off. No one is restraining her from clicking the appropriate button or whatever, as opposed to being held down in real life. If you mean that if the "victum" has been raped IRL that they may relive the trauma, fine, but we aren't talking about that. Rape is more than just physical (I think it's even legally defined as more), but it *includes* the physical. Being beaten isn't just physical, but it *includes* the physical. In the virtual, there's no physical, so it's not rape. It may be gross, tasteless, harassment, etc. It may even be a crime. It is not rape. If it were proper VR, maybe there would be a case, but it's not.
It's no more rape in second life than if I said, "I just cybered you. I'm finished. I had sex with you on slashdot. LOL". Is that rape too? What if I kill someone in a 3D shooter? Am I a murderer?
There are people who are sensitive in certain ways, I'm not going to make the call as to what qualifies as over sensitive. This could be quite traumatic if it happened to those people. The laws on the other hand are there to deal with the general case. The way most people would deal with this (I would hope) is, "dude, that's sick, I'm gonna complain to admin about this".
That's "arsepiles" and shitloads. After all they're imperial and metric respectively. I'm from Canada, so I'm not to sure what the arsepile conversion is...
Wow... I think you just said the one thing that could make me want to buy that game...
Um... Raving Rabbids? Elebits? And Zelda makes liberal use of the new control as well. I think "gimmick" is a hell of an understatement.
Oh, and the new Sonic game is pretty slick too.