If you have the ability to look at a problem and say "oh yeah, 3 variable calculus", you will be able to be more effective than the guy or gal who goes "I don't see how we can make much progress here, let's shelve this."
Granted, this differentiation (get it? get it?) only occurs in rare scenarios in real life. But I will submit that those 1% of scenarios might decide the difference between success and failure on the project that makes you a success or failure.
Much of life is about having that extra edge. Math is an edge that is worth the investment. Not everyone can swing it though, but I have no problem impressing on as many kids as possible as much math as they can stomach. Like eating your greens, it's good for you.
in that a person can lie, and this is protected speech
so maybe we need to more forcefully commit to the notion that a corporation is NOT a person and does NOT deserve the same protections
in the USA, anonymous trolls lying and making shit up is analogous to corporations and rich people committing secret soft money to untraceable political actions. when will we have our first scandal where Chinese money tinkers with American politics in this way? so why exactly is it allowed that rich people and corporations can influence our politics anonymously, without have to disclose the sources and expenditures?
secret corporate cash is the greatest threat to the health of our democracies
As in "this story is not adequate for slashdot according to my judgment"
Good for you assholes. So next time don't read, and like the parent said: don't comment.
You're really not so important that anyone should care that your holiness finds a story inadequate, and you just look like a douchebag when you think we need to know you disapprove.
nicotine is highly addicting, but not highly inebriating
something like cocaine, heroin, and meth compel you to use them to the same degree as nicotine, but they add the extra "benefit" of making you unable to hold a job or continue a relationship (the inebriation does that, unlike with nicotine)
marijuana, alcohol, lsd, mushrooms, etc., should be legal because they do not easily addict (although you shouldn't use drugs that produce strong hallucinations without a babysitter, and the irresponsible assholes that do will mean these drugs will stay illegal)
but strongly addicting and inebriating substances (this excludes nicotine, because it is not strongly inebriating), such as heroin, cocaine, meth, etc., when made easily and freely available, become the "solution" to many more people for the average problems of life, to the point they can no longer maintain a job and a relationship, and the "solution" becomes a much larger life destroying problem
of course, you can still get these drugs, but there are financial and distribution barriers to acquiring them, which means these drugs destroy far less lives than if they were legal and freely available. the war on drugs will never be perfect. that's not the point. marijuana should be made legal and the highly addicting and inebriating substances should be focused on more effectively. to simply keep the addict population as low as is possible. THAT's the point
also of course, for those who are addicted, HEATH CARE, not incarceration, is the key to rebuilding destroyed lives
but i will never understand, and never respect, the blind idealistic opinions of people who only consider the evil effects of prohibition on society, and do not consider the far greater evil effects of highly addicting + inebriating drugs themselves on destroyed lives. and for those of you who say it is your right to destroy your life if you want, you don't ever do that in a vacuum, you drag your family, friends, community, and random innocents who you damage while inebriated or you wind up stealing from to support your habit (right, like government should hand out free drugs, like i want my tax dollars to bankroll your empty life: no i want to bankroll your recovery)
no one has infinite willpower, everyone has moments of weakness, and most people don't act with responsibility (especially in regards to drugs, since that is the whole point: escape from responsibility and the stress). and when something like cocaine or heroin or meth becomes more easily available during those times of weakness we all have because some magically thinking society made them legal, you have introduced a permanently hobbling deficit on many more people's lives. if you don't understand this phenomenon, stop talking about drug policy, as you know absolutely nothing about drugs, or are being dishonest in the service of your own blindness on the subject, perhaps even your own addiction or addictive personality
more than war, slavery, government brutality: drugs have destroyed more human lives in the history of homo sapiens. understand that, or understand nothing about the subject. the idea that just prohibition is the problem, that a bunch of controlling busy bodies just go to all this effort because they just don't want you to have any fun, is the opinion of an idiot 12 year old. hard drugs will ruin your life. know it or learn it
who wants their personal freedom destroyed by introducing a permanent interrupt switch in your mind that constantly asks for a drug, pretty much for the rest of your life, when you are feeling down? anyone who isn't warning the hell out of people to stay the hell far away from hard drugs is an idiot, anyone who actually knows these drugs from experience and is actually a person miraculously still interested in their own well-being or the well-being of others is making that warning
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This is NOT taxing the CPU, this is all hardware controller chip.
I haven't tried it out yet, but you pair any old SSD you want with any old HD you want, and voila.
there is a perception that anonymous accounts must be stamped out by google, facebook, twitter, etc. wrong approach
in truth, let anonymous accounts blossom by the ten, hundred, or thousandfold
instead, the option should be provided for people to choose one of their accounts to be certified as real, whatever that process may be (the process must be thought out, you can hack anything, but the process must be as foolproof as possible)
people who want real metrics, real voting, real value, real financials, etc., can therefore choose to refrain certian transactions to only certified accounts. then let the bilgewater anonymous drek do as it wants, not affecting those things which the internet holds great promise to do, but is currently held back to due anonymous douchebaggery
ps: of course there are valid uses for anonymity. i don't need to the hear the arguments for anonymity, i understand them. you need to understand i am making a place for anonymity in this scheme of certification, and you also need to understand that there is plenty the internet promises to do (such as voting and certain financial transactions) that anonymity ruins
so the emphasis then becomes on not negative proof: stamping out every anonymous account, which is impossible and a ridiculously huge undertaking. the emphasis becomes one of positive proof: self-chosen inclusiveness and opt-in. for those who choose not to be anonymous, certain new abilities on the internet become possible. for everyone else who chooses to remain anonymous, carry on, status quo unaffected
so much of the argument about regulation and monopolies in the USA is just so many Americans unfamiliar with their own history in the Gilded Ages.
Just read your history folks. The USA is currently repeating history because we seemed to have forgotten our lessons the last time we had little regulations and large corporations were allowed the trample our rights and our livelihoods. there was a backlash, as people were poisoned, abused, and impoverished. it seems we now have to do go through that backlash all over again, because so many fools distrust the government so strongly, and don't even think about the real threat: corporations
the basis of monopoly/ oligopoly is completely natural. there will be large players and small players in any market
the large players will collude and abuse the consumers and smaller players in a thousand different ways. read your economic history
the only effective counterweight to the larger players is the government. if the government can't or won't regulate the large players (such as because the large players have corrupted the government), then the larger players will commit abuses
this is all perfectly logical, reasonable, and obvious, to anyone with even a surface level understanding of economics
what is it with free market fundamentalists and their quasireligious belief in the infallibility of markets, in opposition to all factual lessons of economic history?
"Prattling on about how things should be without the faintest idea of how to put it into practice."
Ever hear of the United Kingdom? How about Canada? Or here is a crazy example: the state of Massachusetts, which passed universal healthcare, under Governor Romney, ironically.
Would you like me to carefully annotate how those healthcare systems work, for your educational benefit? Am I your father? How about that I trust that you have enough intelligence and Internet skills that you can find these things out for yourself? You made your way to Slashdot by yourself. You figured out how to comment.
Good boy! Now you have enough advanced Internet skillz to find Wikipedia and enter a search term. I leave it to your boundless intellect about what search term to enter. You can do it good boy! Good doggie! I believe in you!
What is your problem with me exactly you stalkerish asshole? Is it that you are angry that I say marijuana should be legalized and harder drugs stay illegal, which is rapidly becoming average public opinion in the United States?
Here's an idea: fuck off, you creepy stalker. Work on your personality problems on someone else's dime.
You will see some responses to this comment of mine attempting to falsely equate Chinese authoritarian control of political opinion with various vile things the West does. Don't get me wrong: the West does plenty of evil things and there is plenty I criticize about my government. The difference is: they can express this political opinion of theirs freely, here in the West, and ironically, as they indulge false equivalency, they do not admit or do not know they would experience fear and intimidation if they tried to equally criticize Beijing, from within China.
I myself disagree with those who falsely believe that the West is just as bad as China in regards to suppression of freedoms, but I fully support their right to spout their nonsense, unhindered by fear of government backlash.
i already said everything you think you are telling me. you think what you have written is some sort of amazing original thought of yours that never occured to anyone?
the ad hominem attacks comes from dealing with fucking morons like yourself, who don't even bother reading or thinking before responding!
furthermore, you are a hypocrite. how can i say this?
tell me what country you are from
i will then google that country, find something evil form your country's past, and then declare you are incapable of ever criticizing me, or the USA, or another country ever again, based on that evil your country did. because you would be a hypocrite
does that sound reasonable to you? no?
then shut up and start thinking based on principles and not based on nationalistic chest thumping. of COURSE i can criticize any country i want. this is my right, as is your right, and it does not mean i excuse or absolve my own country of any sins. can you possibly wrap your mind around this amazing concept?
it's not a team sport, moron, this is not a football game
i said my country has done plenty evil in the world. now do you want to move beyond the nationalist tribal chest thumping nonsense?
where are you from? perhaps some magical land squeaky clean and without any evil actions in its history?
but maybe, since such a country does not exist, maybe you yourself should refrain your comments to principles and ideas, and not project mindless hate in the name of nationalist rancor as you currently do, thereby making you just as stupid and evil as everything you hate about the USA
you don't beat your enemy, genius, by becoming as bad as him
thank you for your gross mischaracterization. when you mature psychologically and intellectually, do try to participate more constructively. unless sounding like a jackass is your primary goal. in which case "Mission Accomplished";-)
and I wish Facebook an accelerated death as is certain as people grow more wise to their feeding of personal details to an ad making machine
but in reality, Losse's words and opinion seem to have more to do with Losse's own life trajectory than with Facebook itself
human beings are social animals. this has powered Facebook's growth. but the Internet is still young, and you can forgive the world for not understanding the nature of the beast it was feeding. as it dawns on them what Facebook really means to their lives and their society, they will continue to be just as social, but on sites that do not exist for the goal that Facebook does
meanwhile, humans are not universally social, or social their entire lives. some are more introspective and seek a more monklike existence in order to plumb the depths of their spirit or their mind. this is 100% fine and I myself have this tendency. but i recognize that this tendency of mine, and as it exists also in Losse, is not an enemy of human sociability, nor should it be, nor should we evangelize that everyone should tune out and drop out, just like we should not evangelize that everyone should plug in and focus in
to each their own. Losse is making the mistake of projecting her own life's trajectory on the story of Facebook and/ or social networking in general. don't make the same mistake as Losse. unless you yourself are equally interested in tuning out and dropping out. in which case, this is fine, power to you. i hope something constructive comes out of it, for Losse, and for you. now unplug the computer
you're stalking me because i didn't regurgitate and patiently explain to you how universal healthcare works, which can be found in any number of online sources?
Slashdot Mirror
If you have the ability to look at a problem and say "oh yeah, 3 variable calculus", you will be able to be more effective than the guy or gal who goes "I don't see how we can make much progress here, let's shelve this."
Granted, this differentiation (get it? get it?) only occurs in rare scenarios in real life. But I will submit that those 1% of scenarios might decide the difference between success and failure on the project that makes you a success or failure.
Much of life is about having that extra edge. Math is an edge that is worth the investment. Not everyone can swing it though, but I have no problem impressing on as many kids as possible as much math as they can stomach. Like eating your greens, it's good for you.
in that a person can lie, and this is protected speech
so maybe we need to more forcefully commit to the notion that a corporation is NOT a person and does NOT deserve the same protections
in the USA, anonymous trolls lying and making shit up is analogous to corporations and rich people committing secret soft money to untraceable political actions. when will we have our first scandal where Chinese money tinkers with American politics in this way? so why exactly is it allowed that rich people and corporations can influence our politics anonymously, without have to disclose the sources and expenditures?
secret corporate cash is the greatest threat to the health of our democracies
African American female SciFi author
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler
"Kindred" is pretty awesome. Hollywood movie bait.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindred_(novel)
finances, voting, wallet replacement, identification: it is all converging onto cell phones
therefore, for any country concerned with social justice (I guess this excludes the USA then) the poor must have a supplemented device
As in "this story is not adequate for slashdot according to my judgment"
Good for you assholes. So next time don't read, and like the parent said: don't comment.
You're really not so important that anyone should care that your holiness finds a story inadequate, and you just look like a douchebag when you think we need to know you disapprove.
it's a marvell controller
it has different features (SSD size doesn't matter, ease of setup)
nicotine is highly addicting, but not highly inebriating
something like cocaine, heroin, and meth compel you to use them to the same degree as nicotine, but they add the extra "benefit" of making you unable to hold a job or continue a relationship (the inebriation does that, unlike with nicotine)
marijuana, alcohol, lsd, mushrooms, etc., should be legal because they do not easily addict (although you shouldn't use drugs that produce strong hallucinations without a babysitter, and the irresponsible assholes that do will mean these drugs will stay illegal)
but strongly addicting and inebriating substances (this excludes nicotine, because it is not strongly inebriating), such as heroin, cocaine, meth, etc., when made easily and freely available, become the "solution" to many more people for the average problems of life, to the point they can no longer maintain a job and a relationship, and the "solution" becomes a much larger life destroying problem
of course, you can still get these drugs, but there are financial and distribution barriers to acquiring them, which means these drugs destroy far less lives than if they were legal and freely available. the war on drugs will never be perfect. that's not the point. marijuana should be made legal and the highly addicting and inebriating substances should be focused on more effectively. to simply keep the addict population as low as is possible. THAT's the point
also of course, for those who are addicted, HEATH CARE, not incarceration, is the key to rebuilding destroyed lives
but i will never understand, and never respect, the blind idealistic opinions of people who only consider the evil effects of prohibition on society, and do not consider the far greater evil effects of highly addicting + inebriating drugs themselves on destroyed lives. and for those of you who say it is your right to destroy your life if you want, you don't ever do that in a vacuum, you drag your family, friends, community, and random innocents who you damage while inebriated or you wind up stealing from to support your habit (right, like government should hand out free drugs, like i want my tax dollars to bankroll your empty life: no i want to bankroll your recovery)
no one has infinite willpower, everyone has moments of weakness, and most people don't act with responsibility (especially in regards to drugs, since that is the whole point: escape from responsibility and the stress). and when something like cocaine or heroin or meth becomes more easily available during those times of weakness we all have because some magically thinking society made them legal, you have introduced a permanently hobbling deficit on many more people's lives. if you don't understand this phenomenon, stop talking about drug policy, as you know absolutely nothing about drugs, or are being dishonest in the service of your own blindness on the subject, perhaps even your own addiction or addictive personality
more than war, slavery, government brutality: drugs have destroyed more human lives in the history of homo sapiens. understand that, or understand nothing about the subject. the idea that just prohibition is the problem, that a bunch of controlling busy bodies just go to all this effort because they just don't want you to have any fun, is the opinion of an idiot 12 year old. hard drugs will ruin your life. know it or learn it
who wants their personal freedom destroyed by introducing a permanent interrupt switch in your mind that constantly asks for a drug, pretty much for the rest of your life, when you are feeling down? anyone who isn't warning the hell out of people to stay the hell far away from hard drugs is an idiot, anyone who actually knows these drugs from experience and is actually a person miraculously still interested in their own well-being or the well-being of others is making that warning
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This is NOT taxing the CPU, this is all hardware controller chip.
I haven't tried it out yet, but you pair any old SSD you want with any old HD you want, and voila.
The obvious selling point is that it is so easy.
there is a perception that anonymous accounts must be stamped out by google, facebook, twitter, etc. wrong approach
in truth, let anonymous accounts blossom by the ten, hundred, or thousandfold
instead, the option should be provided for people to choose one of their accounts to be certified as real, whatever that process may be (the process must be thought out, you can hack anything, but the process must be as foolproof as possible)
people who want real metrics, real voting, real value, real financials, etc., can therefore choose to refrain certian transactions to only certified accounts. then let the bilgewater anonymous drek do as it wants, not affecting those things which the internet holds great promise to do, but is currently held back to due anonymous douchebaggery
ps: of course there are valid uses for anonymity. i don't need to the hear the arguments for anonymity, i understand them. you need to understand i am making a place for anonymity in this scheme of certification, and you also need to understand that there is plenty the internet promises to do (such as voting and certain financial transactions) that anonymity ruins
so the emphasis then becomes on not negative proof: stamping out every anonymous account, which is impossible and a ridiculously huge undertaking. the emphasis becomes one of positive proof: self-chosen inclusiveness and opt-in. for those who choose not to be anonymous, certain new abilities on the internet become possible. for everyone else who chooses to remain anonymous, carry on, status quo unaffected
brilliant
no, the underarm B.O.
you forgot the crystals
you can't make any transcendent voyages without crystals
and incense
and lsd
and mountain girl...
where are you mountain girl, i need your loving, help me touch the face of the stars baby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square_Deal
so much of the argument about regulation and monopolies in the USA is just so many Americans unfamiliar with their own history in the Gilded Ages.
Just read your history folks. The USA is currently repeating history because we seemed to have forgotten our lessons the last time we had little regulations and large corporations were allowed the trample our rights and our livelihoods. there was a backlash, as people were poisoned, abused, and impoverished. it seems we now have to do go through that backlash all over again, because so many fools distrust the government so strongly, and don't even think about the real threat: corporations
the basis of monopoly/ oligopoly is completely natural. there will be large players and small players in any market
the large players will collude and abuse the consumers and smaller players in a thousand different ways. read your economic history
the only effective counterweight to the larger players is the government. if the government can't or won't regulate the large players (such as because the large players have corrupted the government), then the larger players will commit abuses
this is all perfectly logical, reasonable, and obvious, to anyone with even a surface level understanding of economics
what is it with free market fundamentalists and their quasireligious belief in the infallibility of markets, in opposition to all factual lessons of economic history?
false equivalency
find where i mention that concept in the comment you are responding to
understand the stupidity of it
thank you
asshole
"Prattling on about how things should be without the faintest idea of how to put it into practice."
Ever hear of the United Kingdom? How about Canada? Or here is a crazy example: the state of Massachusetts, which passed universal healthcare, under Governor Romney, ironically.
Would you like me to carefully annotate how those healthcare systems work, for your educational benefit? Am I your father? How about that I trust that you have enough intelligence and Internet skills that you can find these things out for yourself? You made your way to Slashdot by yourself. You figured out how to comment.
Good boy! Now you have enough advanced Internet skillz to find Wikipedia and enter a search term. I leave it to your boundless intellect about what search term to enter. You can do it good boy! Good doggie! I believe in you!
What is your problem with me exactly you stalkerish asshole? Is it that you are angry that I say marijuana should be legalized and harder drugs stay illegal, which is rapidly becoming average public opinion in the United States?
Here's an idea: fuck off, you creepy stalker. Work on your personality problems on someone else's dime.
can you read?
i already said everything you think you are telling me. you think what you have written is some sort of amazing original thought of yours that never occured to anyone?
the ad hominem attacks comes from dealing with fucking morons like yourself, who don't even bother reading or thinking before responding!
furthermore, you are a hypocrite. how can i say this?
tell me what country you are from
i will then google that country, find something evil form your country's past, and then declare you are incapable of ever criticizing me, or the USA, or another country ever again, based on that evil your country did. because you would be a hypocrite
does that sound reasonable to you? no?
then shut up and start thinking based on principles and not based on nationalistic chest thumping. of COURSE i can criticize any country i want. this is my right, as is your right, and it does not mean i excuse or absolve my own country of any sins. can you possibly wrap your mind around this amazing concept?
hurrr durrr snort
it's not a team sport, moron, this is not a football game
i said my country has done plenty evil in the world. now do you want to move beyond the nationalist tribal chest thumping nonsense?
where are you from? perhaps some magical land squeaky clean and without any evil actions in its history?
but maybe, since such a country does not exist, maybe you yourself should refrain your comments to principles and ideas, and not project mindless hate in the name of nationalist rancor as you currently do, thereby making you just as stupid and evil as everything you hate about the USA
you don't beat your enemy, genius, by becoming as bad as him
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rational_scale_to_assess_the_harm_of_drugs_(mean_physical_harm_and_mean_dependence).svg
thank you for your gross mischaracterization. when you mature psychologically and intellectually, do try to participate more constructively. unless sounding like a jackass is your primary goal. in which case "Mission Accomplished" ;-)
and I wish Facebook an accelerated death as is certain as people grow more wise to their feeding of personal details to an ad making machine
but in reality, Losse's words and opinion seem to have more to do with Losse's own life trajectory than with Facebook itself
human beings are social animals. this has powered Facebook's growth. but the Internet is still young, and you can forgive the world for not understanding the nature of the beast it was feeding. as it dawns on them what Facebook really means to their lives and their society, they will continue to be just as social, but on sites that do not exist for the goal that Facebook does
meanwhile, humans are not universally social, or social their entire lives. some are more introspective and seek a more monklike existence in order to plumb the depths of their spirit or their mind. this is 100% fine and I myself have this tendency. but i recognize that this tendency of mine, and as it exists also in Losse, is not an enemy of human sociability, nor should it be, nor should we evangelize that everyone should tune out and drop out, just like we should not evangelize that everyone should plug in and focus in
to each their own. Losse is making the mistake of projecting her own life's trajectory on the story of Facebook and/ or social networking in general. don't make the same mistake as Losse. unless you yourself are equally interested in tuning out and dropping out. in which case, this is fine, power to you. i hope something constructive comes out of it, for Losse, and for you. now unplug the computer
you're stalking me because i didn't regurgitate and patiently explain to you how universal healthcare works, which can be found in any number of online sources?
good point. the power of irony?
sir:
i respect your right to spout factually wrong, dimwitted nonsense
there's really nothing else one can say otherwise in response to what you think and believe