From TFA: "The dangerous message being sent to young people is clear: 1) you are scum; 2) classical music is not a wonder of the human world, it's a repellent against mildly anti-social behavior."
If (2) you find classical music repellent, then (1) you _are_ scum.
It's also possible he's smart enough to realise he'll sound like a right little fucker if he calls himself a genius. A bit of false modesty goes a long way.
Do they mean fire some teeny tiny particles 30m into copper, or blow a giant 30m crater in an enormous ingot of copper? Cos it kinda sounds like the second one in the article.
In France, do you have to give your social security number to get an internet connection? Or pay by direct debit from your own bank account? If not, what's to stop people signing up with a false name and paying in cash?
"The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory"
So, IF I'm using a specific motherboard and IF I have 2GB of memory and IF I've been dumb enough to give someone root access, I have to buy another 1GB of ram?
Sweet, I've been looking for a good excuse to spend money.
For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
In other words, people are not inherently bad because they choose to deal drugs, but the illegality of dealing drugs attracts bad people to it.
Well exactly, But few activities are lucrative enough to allow these bad people to wield the kind of power that drug money brings.
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who wants to do drugs in our society is already doing them. Why give the potential taxes to criminals?
No, we own guns to prevent the government from having a monopoly on deadly force. Governments have different options available to them when the people are armed, than they do when the people are unarmed.
-jcr
The idea that an armed populace could effectively fight a government trained and equipped army is patently ludicrous. Soccer moms and business men with pistols vs trained killers with tanks and artillery only ends one way.
Firstly, my apologies for taking a long time to reply. I'm afraid we had a power outage at my house for a few days, and when it came back, this had slipped from my mind. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
You seem to imply that you don't see a big difference between religion and philosophy. I can see where you are coming from, but I feel you are mistaken. Religion, or Theology at least, is some sort of philosophy, but philosophy is not a religion. Lots of philosophers believe in god, or some sort of "first cause". Lots don't. Lots of scientists believe in god. Lots don't. It is possible to be a believer in God/Allah/Buddha/The FSM, and to be a good scientist or a good philosoper. If someone claims to be a member of a church based on the teachings of a particular philosopher then they either haven't read widely enough (or at all), or they had a bias when they started to study.
I would argue also about the very sharp line you draw between philosophy and science. "Way back when", science was done by philosophers, as you say yourself. I'd argue that it still is, and we've just had longer to get better at it. The inventor of calculus was a philosopher and a scientist. Science is a philosophy. A philosophy where experiments (provably correctly) are used to investigate hypotheses. But still a philosophy. To be a scientist is to stand on the shoulders of the giants (and the normal sized people) of the past, and not to acknowledge this is at best ingracious.
You refer to the scientific method as a series of "mundane, easily understood and followed steps". There is nothing mundane, or easily understood, about the formulation of hypotheses. Many times the explanation will be obvious (how disease spreads, once you've invented the microscope), and many times it will not (why is Mercury's orbit around the Sun so funny looking). The scientific method is an example of something born of pure reason, which has no real existance except in the minds of people, Which has no power unless people believe in it. And yes, it does work.
We should be skeptical of philosophy for this very reason; it is often wrong, and spectacularly so - and it doesn't have a mechanism to correct itself the way science does It's true, some philosophies come down to no more than hand waving and hot air. However, the achievement of a better understanding of the universe/enviroment by reason alone is something that was done first by people who were philosophers. Now these people are called scientists, and have much more powerful tools with which to investigate. Particle accelerators, microscopes, the theories and work of earlier scientists. But these things are just tools, and reason is still the primary tool applied to the problem. Therefore, the most powerful error correction system we have is critical thinking and reasoning, something which is often one of the benefits from a study of philosophy.
so once wrong, it often stays wrong based on nothing but sheer conceptual inertia. In the case of philosophy, I don't know of any widely accepted views that don't have their critics. Could you give some examples?
It should be pointed out as well that the BMI makes no distinction based on race, sex or body type.
A good example is a 6'3" 240 pound body builder vs a 6'3" 240 couch potato. Both of these are obese, according to the BMI. In reality, even the couch potato is probably not obese. At least not in a common sense, I'll-know-it-when-I-see-it definition of obese.
If the burst are "extremely short", only ~half the surface of the planet would be affected. Sure this kills all the plankton, and does a shedload of damage to the biosphere, but would it actually wipe out humanity? Even humans on the wrong side of the planet are a lot hardier than plankton. And we have other ways of making food,that aren't dependant on crops and animals. Sure, we don't use them a whole lot atm, but if we had to, we probably could.
Mightn't be able to supply everyone, but enough people surely to ensure continuance of the race.
Episode 2 had a lot of good parts in it. A buddy of mine edited out all the crap (Anakin and Amidala) and just left in the good bits (stormtroopers and lightsabers). Natalie Portman gets about 20 seconds of screen time, about 2 lines, and the movie improves immeasurably. It was actually enjoyable to watch.
Contrast this with the Han and Leia love story in the original trilogy. That was far more believable, and didn't even interfere with the narrative. What happened to GL in the meantime? Where did the talent go?
There's ads on slashdot? I've been reading this site for a number of years, and I actually had to scroll up to see if there was an ad on the top of the page. And there was. I was genuinly surprised. I swear I don't even notice ads on websites anymore, it's like my brain filters them out without even telling me.
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From TFA: "The dangerous message being sent to young people is clear: 1) you are scum; 2) classical music is not a wonder of the human world, it's a repellent against mildly anti-social behavior."
If (2) you find classical music repellent, then (1) you _are_ scum.
It's also possible he's smart enough to realise he'll sound like a right little fucker if he calls himself a genius. A bit of false modesty goes a long way.
Do they mean fire some teeny tiny particles 30m into copper, or blow a giant 30m crater in an enormous ingot of copper? Cos it kinda sounds like the second one in the article.
Even a crass, commercial value system?
It's great how big companies really care these days. We should feel privileged to have such vigilant guardians of our "healthy, vibrant culture".
In France, do you have to give your social security number to get an internet connection? Or pay by direct debit from your own bank account? If not, what's to stop people signing up with a false name and paying in cash?
"The attack works best on a Linux system with an Intel DQ35 motherboard with 2GB of memory"
So, IF I'm using a specific motherboard and IF I have 2GB of memory and IF I've been dumb enough to give someone root access, I have to buy another 1GB of ram?
Sweet, I've been looking for a good excuse to spend money.
..come to mind.
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unpopular != flamebait
For example, the Mafia didn't cease to exist when Prohibition ended and they couldn't run their speakeasys anymore; they just stepped up their extortion, money laundering, etc. to compensate.
In other words, people are not inherently bad because they choose to deal drugs, but the illegality of dealing drugs attracts bad people to it.
Well exactly, But few activities are lucrative enough to allow these bad people to wield the kind of power that drug money brings.
I think it's safe to assume that everyone who wants to do drugs in our society is already doing them. Why give the potential taxes to criminals?
Same thing with smokers. They go from "I can quit any time" to "I can't stop."
Smoke 20 a day for six months. Then try to stop. Maybe you'll be able to, but you won't think it's easy anymore.
No, we own guns to prevent the government from having a monopoly on deadly force. Governments have different options available to them when the people are armed, than they do when the people are unarmed.
-jcr
The idea that an armed populace could effectively fight a government trained and equipped army is patently ludicrous. Soccer moms and business men with pistols vs trained killers with tanks and artillery only ends one way.
Firstly, my apologies for taking a long time to reply. I'm afraid we had a power outage at my house for a few days, and when it came back, this had slipped from my mind. Thank you for taking the time to respond.
You seem to imply that you don't see a big difference between religion and philosophy. I can see where you are coming from, but I feel you are mistaken. Religion, or Theology at least, is some sort of philosophy, but philosophy is not a religion. Lots of philosophers believe in god, or some sort of "first cause". Lots don't. Lots of scientists believe in god. Lots don't. It is possible to be a believer in God/Allah/Buddha/The FSM, and to be a good scientist or a good philosoper. If someone claims to be a member of a church based on the teachings of a particular philosopher then they either haven't read widely enough (or at all), or they had a bias when they started to study.
I would argue also about the very sharp line you draw between philosophy and science. "Way back when", science was done by philosophers, as you say yourself. I'd argue that it still is, and we've just had longer to get better at it. The inventor of calculus was a philosopher and a scientist. Science is a philosophy. A philosophy where experiments (provably correctly) are used to investigate hypotheses. But still a philosophy. To be a scientist is to stand on the shoulders of the giants (and the normal sized people) of the past, and not to acknowledge this is at best ingracious.
You refer to the scientific method as a series of "mundane, easily understood and followed steps". There is nothing mundane, or easily understood, about the formulation of hypotheses. Many times the explanation will be obvious (how disease spreads, once you've invented the microscope), and many times it will not (why is Mercury's orbit around the Sun so funny looking). The scientific method is an example of something born of pure reason, which has no real existance except in the minds of people, Which has no power unless people believe in it. And yes, it does work.
More than fifteen days of jail time seems excessive? Anything more then being booted out of the cinema seems like a violation of human rights to me.
Seriously, who is this guy harming that he deserves to spend time in jail? Who's being protected?
>I hate to say it, but women are good at some things and men at others.
>>Noo, thats not sexist, not at all.
No, actually it's not. Acknowledging there's a difference between women and men isn't sexism.
How about this:
Instead of whining about it being a dupe. Just don't read the article. What a concept.
It should be pointed out as well that the BMI makes no distinction based on race, sex or body type.
A good example is a 6'3" 240 pound body builder vs a 6'3" 240 couch potato. Both of these are obese, according to the BMI. In reality, even the couch potato is probably not obese. At least not in a common sense, I'll-know-it-when-I-see-it definition of obese.
Surely this wouldn't actually kill us all?
If the burst are "extremely short", only ~half the surface of the planet would be affected. Sure this kills all the plankton, and does a shedload of damage to the biosphere, but would it actually wipe out humanity? Even humans on the wrong side of the planet are a lot hardier than plankton. And we have other ways of making food,that aren't dependant on crops and animals. Sure, we don't use them a whole lot atm, but if we had to, we probably could.
Mightn't be able to supply everyone, but enough people surely to ensure continuance of the race.
Episode 2 had a lot of good parts in it. A buddy of mine edited out all the crap (Anakin and Amidala) and just left in the good bits (stormtroopers and lightsabers). Natalie Portman gets about 20 seconds of screen time, about 2 lines, and the movie improves immeasurably. It was actually enjoyable to watch.
Contrast this with the Han and Leia love story in the original trilogy. That was far more believable, and didn't even interfere with the narrative. What happened to GL in the meantime? Where did the talent go?
Why oh why isn't there a moderator option that pithily sums up "your post is well written, and has grammer and stuff, but you're full of sh1t".
There's ads on slashdot? I've been reading this site for a number of years, and I actually had to scroll up to see if there was an ad on the top of the page. And there was. I was genuinly surprised. I swear I don't even notice ads on websites anymore, it's like my brain filters them out without even telling me.
Now, that's useful ad blocking software.
I can see MP3 players of the future becoming like cars in the movies. Drop it, and watch the spectacular explosion as all the fuel goes up.