And there lies the answer to the original question, what to tell these people. Instead of opposing them by telling them their fears are false and irrational, tell them their fears are valid but they will be saved by superheros.
No, I'm pretty sure believing what you see in a movie is stupid.
Honestly, these people see 'Transformers', 'Superman', 'Batman', 'Star Trek', 'Dogma', 'Godzilla', and '2012'. Then they choose to believe the world is ending but they won't be saved by Superman or Batman. They won't be killed first by giant robots or a giant lizard. And angels and demons... well ok they probably do believe in Dogma.
Actually these people probably already have a mental problem and fear the world is ending BEFORE seeing 2012. Seeing the movie just gives them an excuse to bring it out. Why else would they choose this one as the real one?
Personally, I choose to believe in 'The Last Starfighter'. I am practicing, Centauri, I'm practicing...
> reality. We do in fact have magnet schools, gifted and talented programs,
I'm guessing you don't actually have kids in school.
We are in one of the highest rated school districts in the country (USA) and our third grade "gifted program" consists of ONE HOUR a week of gifted instruction. We pulled our kids and are home schooling now.
I canceled cable and put away my Tivo almost a year ago.
I have an original XBox running XBMC, and an old PC in the corner with an S-Video out and a looooooong cable going to the TV. Between them I can watch downloaded video, Netflix, and Hulu. That covers everything. It's been great.
Choice three: No corporate content producers, music art and drama are produced by everyone "in the small". No blockbusters. Everyone enjoys gathering around telling stories, playing music, singing. Particularly creative people make videos, movies, write plays, books, lyrics. Shakespeare wasn't signed by a label.
The way "content" is owned controlled and restricted now most people only "consume" entertainment. In my grandparent's time everyone produced entertainment. Sure, it wasn't as polished or grand as the professionally produced entertainment we are fed today. But is passive consumption of entertainment really that entertaining compared to interacting?
Your mistake is thinking any pre-packaged food-like substance will be healthy, no matter what "marketing" is on the box.
Eat real food. Things that grow in the ground, hand from trees, or walk around. If your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, it's probably not good for you.
Of course not. The real purpose of this exercise is as a military training against widely dispersed terrorist cells. Anyone who gets close to winning will be killed and "disappeared".
So while we are searching for the red balloons, a crack military team is searching for the blue balloons with every high tech resource at their disposal. Let the better metaphor win!
While the internet public at large is attempting to mobilize to find the red balloons, DARPA will be monitoring the 'net attempting to stay on top of an unknown number of organizations comprised of an unknown number of individuals coordinating using unknown protocols and communications channels. This will be valuable information similar to finding and shutting down terrorist cells. Expect the front-runner group to be infiltrated by a covert DARPA agent and some key people to "disappear" until after the deadline. (OK, did I go too far there?)
Someone needs to take an open source filesystem and develop it into a seamlessly cross-platform filesystem. Release drivers for all popular filesystems. Maybe start with ext2, maybe with something better. Release a simple install for Windows, Mac, and Linux so we can all share it easily. Release proof of concepts drivers for RockBox so the MP3 player manufacturers will have an easy time porting it. etc. etc.
> Yeah, pity H1N1 is particularly dangerous to those with nice, strong immune systems because it causes it to overreact to the virus, resulting in severe illness or death.
Here, you can have mine. I don't want it. I'm not going to get it and neither are my wife or kids. We eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep and none of us has compromised immune systems. We've gotten the flu once or twice before and it wasn't a big deal. From all reports Swine Flu is no more virulent than any other flu variant.
I'm also not afraid of liquids on airplanes. And my kids are allowed to walk in town without a leash. Even if white vans have been spotted in the area. I have a pocketknife, and so does my son. He may cut himself some day, but I'll live with that. He can't bring it to school, however, because he might get suspended for having a deadly weapon. He can't bring a "spork" to school either for the same reason.
Anyway, I don't think there will be as much of a shortage of Swine Flu vaccine as they predict because of all the shut-ins that are too afraid to leave their homes to actually go out and GET a Swine Flu shot.
Clearly the parent poster was commenting that the ratio is currently stars/planets > 1 (more stars than planets) and he was wondering if the ratio would invert stars/planets 1 (more planets than stars). If we continue to find planets at some point we may find that 90% of the stars we CAN see well enough have more than 1 planet and it would be a safe bet at that point to say that there are more planets than stars.
I don't think he was suggesting that each star could ever have more than a billion planets. Sorry if you were just being sarcastic or trolling and I didn't get it.
> Who's going to stop this? >> We are! Slashdot is thé community to do this. We have the brainpower, the knowledge, and lots of time. If we can't do this, who can?
No, Anonymous could stop this. Unfortunately, they only care if "they" disrupt the flow of porn.
The widely held belief that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, has gradually been replaced by the notion that the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma. Just thought you should know.
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And there lies the answer to the original question, what to tell these people. Instead of opposing them by telling them their fears are false and irrational, tell them their fears are valid but they will be saved by superheros.
> "Ignorant" is not the same as "stupid",
No, I'm pretty sure believing what you see in a movie is stupid.
Honestly, these people see 'Transformers', 'Superman', 'Batman', 'Star Trek', 'Dogma', 'Godzilla', and '2012'. Then they choose to believe the world is ending but they won't be saved by Superman or Batman. They won't be killed first by giant robots or a giant lizard. And angels and demons... well ok they probably do believe in Dogma.
Actually these people probably already have a mental problem and fear the world is ending BEFORE seeing 2012. Seeing the movie just gives them an excuse to bring it out.
Why else would they choose this one as the real one?
Personally, I choose to believe in 'The Last Starfighter'. I am practicing, Centauri, I'm practicing...
The real point of my post was to show the parent my new sig.
There's something profound in the sound of that...
No but if you were a fucking ballerina it would.
In New York IEPs are only available to students with a disability. They are NOT available to gifted students.
> reality. We do in fact have magnet schools, gifted and talented programs,
I'm guessing you don't actually have kids in school.
We are in one of the highest rated school districts in the country (USA) and our third grade "gifted program" consists of ONE HOUR a week of gifted instruction. We pulled our kids and are home schooling now.
I canceled cable and put away my Tivo almost a year ago.
I have an original XBox running XBMC, and an old PC in the corner with an S-Video out and a looooooong cable going to the TV.
Between them I can watch downloaded video, Netflix, and Hulu. That covers everything. It's been great.
Choice three: No corporate content producers, music art and drama are produced by everyone "in the small". No blockbusters. Everyone enjoys gathering around telling stories, playing music, singing. Particularly creative people make videos, movies, write plays, books, lyrics. Shakespeare wasn't signed by a label.
The way "content" is owned controlled and restricted now most people only "consume" entertainment. In my grandparent's time everyone produced entertainment. Sure, it wasn't as polished or grand as the professionally produced entertainment we are fed today. But is passive consumption of entertainment really that entertaining compared to interacting?
I bring you peace. It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death. The choice is yours.
Your mistake is thinking any pre-packaged food-like substance will be healthy, no matter what "marketing" is on the box.
Eat real food. Things that grow in the ground, hand from trees, or walk around. If your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food, it's probably not good for you.
"Web History" is not available on MY dashboard. No mention of it at all, no listing of it being enabled or disabled. Nothing.
I voted for Kodos.
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> I could see it for write-only media.
The best thing about write-only media is it has infinite capacity. You can just keep writing to it forever and it never fills up.
> My guess is nobody gets the 40k though.
Of course not. The real purpose of this exercise is as a military training against widely dispersed terrorist cells. Anyone who gets close to winning will be killed and "disappeared".
So while we are searching for the red balloons, a crack military team is searching for the blue balloons with every high tech resource at their disposal. Let the better metaphor win!
While the internet public at large is attempting to mobilize to find the red balloons, DARPA will be monitoring the 'net attempting to stay on top of an unknown number of organizations comprised of an unknown number of individuals coordinating using unknown protocols and communications channels. This will be valuable information similar to finding and shutting down terrorist cells. Expect the front-runner group to be infiltrated by a covert DARPA agent and some key people to "disappear" until after the deadline. (OK, did I go too far there?)
So there is a great opportunity here.
Someone needs to take an open source filesystem and develop it into a seamlessly cross-platform filesystem. Release drivers for all popular filesystems. Maybe start with ext2, maybe with something better. Release a simple install for Windows, Mac, and Linux so we can all share it easily. Release proof of concepts drivers for RockBox so the MP3 player manufacturers will have an easy time porting it. etc. etc.
> Yeah, pity H1N1 is particularly dangerous to those with nice, strong immune systems because it causes it to overreact to the virus, resulting in severe illness or death.
Citation please.
Opposite of what I've read.
Here, you can have mine. I don't want it. I'm not going to get it and neither are my wife or kids.
We eat well, exercise, and get enough sleep and none of us has compromised immune systems. We've gotten the flu once or twice before and it wasn't a big deal. From all reports Swine Flu is no more virulent than any other flu variant.
I'm also not afraid of liquids on airplanes. And my kids are allowed to walk in town without a leash. Even if white vans have been spotted in the area.
I have a pocketknife, and so does my son. He may cut himself some day, but I'll live with that. He can't bring it to school, however, because he might get suspended for having a deadly weapon. He can't bring a "spork" to school either for the same reason.
Anyway, I don't think there will be as much of a shortage of Swine Flu vaccine as they predict because of all the shut-ins that are too afraid to leave their homes to actually go out and GET a Swine Flu shot.
Clearly the parent poster was commenting that the ratio is currently stars/planets > 1 (more stars than planets) and he was wondering if the ratio would invert stars/planets 1 (more planets than stars). If we continue to find planets at some point we may find that 90% of the stars we CAN see well enough have more than 1 planet and it would be a safe bet at that point to say that there are more planets than stars.
I don't think he was suggesting that each star could ever have more than a billion planets. Sorry if you were just being sarcastic or trolling and I didn't get it.
Well, to bring this back on topic, how will you feel when the government sends you to a reeducation camp because you smell your own farts?
> Who's going to stop this?
>> We are! Slashdot is thé community to do this. We have the brainpower, the knowledge, and lots of time. If we can't do this, who can?
No, Anonymous could stop this. Unfortunately, they only care if "they" disrupt the flow of porn.
An important point you should understand:
The widely held belief that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas, has gradually been replaced by the notion that the sun is a miasma of incandescent plasma.
Just thought you should know.
Don't get too excited, this changes nothing. By tomorrow these same people will be spelling it 'loose' again, so your point is mute.