thats because one of the greatest tragedies america has ever suffered happened today. I'd say this is "stuff that matters". Is it not? Does it not matter that tens of thousands of innocent people were killed in a terrorist attack that will wreak global havoc for decades?
Who hates you? Could you give me a list of names? What is it you think is wrong with people who are rascist against americans? You'll find its the same thing wrong with blaming a race of people for hating you when you have no fucking clue which individuals hate you and which individuals are just like me. I agree with you in half: anyone celebrating right now can rot in hell forever, but anyone who isn't should be left the fuck alone. And until we know who's who, we shouldn't pass judgement.
Re:Remain rational for months - no witchhunts
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name me a succesfull government that isn't wrought with treachery. I made the comment in hopes and support of pre-emptively thwarting a continuing trend and hopefully focusing people on the "ideal" american way; the one which many people have strayed from durring the events you mentioned, and continue to stray from. The most specific ideal would be that in the US, people have tried to foster the ideal that you are innocent before proven guilty. An ideal that did not previously exist in force, and an ideal which changed the world for the better. Defend it.
Condemn witch-hunts and fix systems that create and support them. The "american way", in the ideal, is NOT witch-hunts. Make sure american actions match them as closely as possible.
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I fear somthing worse than random beatings of asian-americans by intolerant morons screaming "give us back our pilot" as we experienced when a US spyplane crashed in china. Everyone must make a pledge to not only be rational today, not only be rational for months, but to defend rationalism, wherever you see it diminished. There will be a wave of racism and search for scapegoats like we've never seen. Make sure this enourmous tragedy doesn't get any worse. Do not prejudge any race or person as "terroist", and be sure not to tolerate anyone who does, before they actually have been convicted. Remember, the american way is under attack. Protect it. Don't give in to witch-hunts. The only call for blood we should worry about right now is the one from the red cross!
Don't assume that I think there is no possibility of an omnipotent god creating all that shit. I'm not only a darwinist, but an agnostic, so I've already thought about this one. If I were to believe that some omnipotent being did all this to trick me, I might as well have faith in some other arbitrary belief, like it will rain dogs full of dynamite tomarow. I mean, for chrissake, maybe this trickster god was waiting for the right moment(tomarow) to confuse us all by making it rain explosive dogs. The point is, its much more likely that the accepted scientific theories are more correct than god creating the universe yesterday. You can come up with an infinite number of god theories, so any one instance will have an infintely small likelyhood of happening. Therefore, its pointless to worry about them, because you wouldn't know which one to worry about. The only possibility that you should worry about is what you can discern from the evidence your senses give you.
In short, I'm only skeptical of recieved theory when I have a reason to be skeptical of it. Arbitrary possibilities deserve no attention until they make a phenomenal appearence. Tell me why its more likely that we're all stuck in the matrix, and I'll happily swallow the red pill. Until then, I'll listen to scientists who work with rational experimentation.
So, who do you. believe, specifically, created the universe? I'll never be so arrogant as to believe I've got that one for sure, but evolution dosn't cover the universe, just earth life.
Pi is a really nasty law offender actually. Within the digits of Pi are an infinite number of unliscensed copies of windows 98, and a multitude of kitty porn. In fact, pi is so devious, that it has a naked picture of every child in every sexual position compressed not only into JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP, but also compression formats we wont invent for another year or two! Pi is also the worst violater of privacy in known history. It has movies of you in the shower, sleeping, and making out with all your past signifigant others. Pi has your address, phone number, social scurity number, and list of personal turn-on's all nicely formated in every concievable document format. Pi even has a DivX compressed AVI file of Bill Gates having intercouse with satan. The funniest thing about all of this is, its ABSOLUTELY true!!
Since creationists depend upon blind faith in inconsistent and impractical arguments, maybe it is good news for them. It's too bad that there are things like half-life of radioactive isotopes and other natural phenomena that prove the earth is older than 6000 years, let alone the universe.
Being knowledgable of technical stuff like "what viruses can really do" is the specific domain of knowledge we slashdot readers have. This makes me wonder, not being an expert on many other things, just how much mis-information is propagated through the news. I never watch the news anymore. All you see are disaster reports and attempts to make 40-year-old, middle-class americans paranoid of something.
Possible TV News Headlines:
10 reasons music will turn your kid into a raging homicidal maniac!
Is your home safe? (probably, if you don't live in the slums, which you probably dont)
Will hackers delete your life? (and you thought stupidity existed only in movies)
What are your kids doing after school? (What are your kids doing IN school? Learning how to cheat a proficiency test, getting harrassed by morons (young and old), and then smoking pot.)
Why environmentalists are crackpots (or how to think comfortably and incorectly)
I've got an even better solution that will insure these viruses stop spreading. We create a virus that exploits the CODE RED back door and "patches" NT by installing linux over it. The ultimate security patch!;)
Thats a great idea! The only way to get incompetent sysadmins to fix this would be to do it for them, right? Since they obviously aren't doing it themselves. I doubt it would even be that difficult to write! Perhaps you could write other viruses which patch vulnerable machines as well!
This is true. In fact, it seems like people are saying the same things here about kids on the internet as people used to say about kids who spent all thier time reading books rather than socializing. The important difference, as you noted, is that now kids can socialize, in a different way, at the same time. At least its better than being a complete introvert.
Another thing to consider is the issue of Black/White that people are missing. As you also noted, computers and social life can co-exist. Its not like all 15 year-old computer users are net-zombies. It would also be important "what" kids are doing on the internet. You would think that a kid who did nothing but read all day was enlightening himself until you realize the only thing he was reading was porno mags. Kids arn't all on the net doing the exact same thing. Some are enlightening themselves, others are just wasting time.
It seems like 15 year-olds might have a lot to offer the net, but is this grand alienation good for the 15 year-olds? Highschool hell dosn't last forever, and its important to be able to integrate into society with other people that, actually, you're not better than. Perhaps college is the healing buffer for this, I guess it was for me, but I probably didn't have as rough of a time as most 15 year-old, reclusive, underachivers.
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no one likes to have thier faults pointed out, right?(maybe thats why so many people post anonymously) The reason I don't like to post on slashdot is the utter lack of thought going on in these threads... I'm talking about predjudices here and someone had the gull to "prejudge" me as a prick trying to lie to pick up chicks...based on nothing but grand assumptions about liberals... You should care about this reason, you and your "we", which is, I'm guessing, anonymous cowards, because having inconsistent ways of thinking makes you more than just an improper moral judge, but also a bad programer;)
Why did I not mention grandfathers and cousins? Because they're not being excluded here... you people don't understand, its not about "mentioning everyone", its about "not excluding most people". Especially people who tend to be excluded from things like this.
Second, how is "crap like this" the reason why women arn't taken seriously in the world of "geeks"? Do you mean to tell me that the reason students in the lab I work in come to me with questions more often than my female co-workers is because people have been pointing out instances where women are excluded as members of this techno-clique? People stereotype women as being less techo-saavy than men, that is wrong, and something needs to be done about it.
Thirdly, I've been trying to figure out what it was about my comment that made so many people angry enough to reply. I'm not makeing some grand condemnation of the author, nor am I trying to label him as a sexist. I only made the comment because the way he was speaking implied to me that he sees "geeks" as only male, and this subconcious way of characterizing people is responsible for the weighted decisions people make against women. Why is the average Tech salary for women $10,000 under men? Its because of the same subconcious feelings about women in technology that would lead one to write the sort of comment I'm pointing out. So, what I'm saying is, we meerely need to "notice" comments like this, in order to insure we have the right ideas in our head rather than some stereotype which may lead us to make unfairly weighted decisions.
so, if you have the patience to reply to my comments, maybe you should also have the patience to listen to comments which you may think are "too damn literal". Trust me, the latter is much more important, since replying to my comment is only an attempt to critisize someone on thier right to critisize (hypocrisy?), while listening to my comment might make someone realize that they should put more thought into the stereotypes they have and the times at which they may weight thier decisions.
I'm not a feminist because I want to "pick up chicks" or impress people with my moral superiority or any bullshit like that (obvisuoly from the responses, thats not whats happening), rather I say things like this because I hate labels, stereotypes, biases, and other bullshit which represents an inconsistent and popular way of identifying and reasoning about individuals.
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thats because one of the greatest tragedies america has ever suffered happened today. I'd say this is "stuff that matters". Is it not? Does it not matter that tens of thousands of innocent people were killed in a terrorist attack that will wreak global havoc for decades?
Who hates you? Could you give me a list of names? What is it you think is wrong with people who are rascist against americans? You'll find its the same thing wrong with blaming a race of people for hating you when you have no fucking clue which individuals hate you and which individuals are just like me. I agree with you in half: anyone celebrating right now can rot in hell forever, but anyone who isn't should be left the fuck alone. And until we know who's who, we shouldn't pass judgement.
name me a succesfull government that isn't wrought with treachery. I made the comment in hopes and support of pre-emptively thwarting a continuing trend and hopefully focusing people on the "ideal" american way; the one which many people have strayed from durring the events you mentioned, and continue to stray from. The most specific ideal would be that in the US, people have tried to foster the ideal that you are innocent before proven guilty. An ideal that did not previously exist in force, and an ideal which changed the world for the better. Defend it.
Condemn witch-hunts and fix systems that create and support them. The "american way", in the ideal, is NOT witch-hunts. Make sure american actions match them as closely as possible.
I fear somthing worse than random beatings of asian-americans by intolerant morons screaming "give us back our pilot" as we experienced when a US spyplane crashed in china. Everyone must make a pledge to not only be rational today, not only be rational for months, but to defend rationalism, wherever you see it diminished. There will be a wave of racism and search for scapegoats like we've never seen. Make sure this enourmous tragedy doesn't get any worse. Do not prejudge any race or person as "terroist", and be sure not to tolerate anyone who does, before they actually have been convicted. Remember, the american way is under attack. Protect it. Don't give in to witch-hunts. The only call for blood we should worry about right now is the one from the red cross!
haha, this is offtopic? Seems I have a moderator censoring me in the name of god. How typical.
cause you don't post often and it wasn't "funny". :)
In short, I'm only skeptical of recieved theory when I have a reason to be skeptical of it. Arbitrary possibilities deserve no attention until they make a phenomenal appearence. Tell me why its more likely that we're all stuck in the matrix, and I'll happily swallow the red pill. Until then, I'll listen to scientists who work with rational experimentation.
So, who do you. believe, specifically, created the universe? I'll never be so arrogant as to believe I've got that one for sure, but evolution dosn't cover the universe, just earth life.
I think therefore I am - Descartes
I thought I read recently that they discovered Pi was normal. Perhaps I was smoking crack or something.
Pi is a really nasty law offender actually. Within the digits of Pi are an infinite number of unliscensed copies of windows 98, and a multitude of kitty porn. In fact, pi is so devious, that it has a naked picture of every child in every sexual position compressed not only into JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP, but also compression formats we wont invent for another year or two! Pi is also the worst violater of privacy in known history. It has movies of you in the shower, sleeping, and making out with all your past signifigant others. Pi has your address, phone number, social scurity number, and list of personal turn-on's all nicely formated in every concievable document format. Pi even has a DivX compressed AVI file of Bill Gates having intercouse with satan. The funniest thing about all of this is, its ABSOLUTELY true!!
Since creationists depend upon blind faith in inconsistent and impractical arguments, maybe it is good news for them. It's too bad that there are things like half-life of radioactive isotopes and other natural phenomena that prove the earth is older than 6000 years, let alone the universe.
I'm tempted to buy one myself so when a soccer mom yelling at her kids in the back seat slams into me, I'm not killed. ;)
Just hope it dosn't roll over
did you divide by population? We're not a very populated country...
Yeah I do.
(chough...bible..chough).
yes, especially anything to do with crackpot scientific "discovery" :)
Being knowledgable of technical stuff like "what viruses can really do" is the specific domain of knowledge we slashdot readers have. This makes me wonder, not being an expert on many other things, just how much mis-information is propagated through the news. I never watch the news anymore. All you see are disaster reports and attempts to make 40-year-old, middle-class americans paranoid of something.
Possible TV News Headlines:Why does everything get up to 7.0 this fast? What are we? Microsoft?
Has anyone heard of something like this near Chicago (or even better, Ohio) ?
I've got an even better solution that will insure these viruses stop spreading. We create a virus that exploits the CODE RED back door and "patches" NT by installing linux over it. The ultimate security patch! ;)
Thats a great idea! The only way to get incompetent sysadmins to fix this would be to do it for them, right? Since they obviously aren't doing it themselves. I doubt it would even be that difficult to write! Perhaps you could write other viruses which patch vulnerable machines as well!
That would rock. Tho maybe I should be a subject of study. I'm kinda like a repulsor beam to0.
Yeah, lets see them convict him now. That ruling will have an appeal so fast it will make thier head spin.
This is true. In fact, it seems like people are saying the same things here about kids on the internet as people used to say about kids who spent all thier time reading books rather than socializing. The important difference, as you noted, is that now kids can socialize, in a different way, at the same time. At least its better than being a complete introvert.
Another thing to consider is the issue of Black/White that people are missing. As you also noted, computers and social life can co-exist. Its not like all 15 year-old computer users are net-zombies. It would also be important "what" kids are doing on the internet. You would think that a kid who did nothing but read all day was enlightening himself until you realize the only thing he was reading was porno mags. Kids arn't all on the net doing the exact same thing. Some are enlightening themselves, others are just wasting time.
It seems like 15 year-olds might have a lot to offer the net, but is this grand alienation good for the 15 year-olds? Highschool hell dosn't last forever, and its important to be able to integrate into society with other people that, actually, you're not better than. Perhaps college is the healing buffer for this, I guess it was for me, but I probably didn't have as rough of a time as most 15 year-old, reclusive, underachivers.
no one likes to have thier faults pointed out, right?(maybe thats why so many people post anonymously) The reason I don't like to post on slashdot is the utter lack of thought going on in these threads... I'm talking about predjudices here and someone had the gull to "prejudge" me as a prick trying to lie to pick up chicks...based on nothing but grand assumptions about liberals... You should care about this reason, you and your "we", which is, I'm guessing, anonymous cowards, because having inconsistent ways of thinking makes you more than just an improper moral judge, but also a bad programer ;)
Why did I not mention grandfathers and cousins? Because they're not being excluded here... you people don't understand, its not about "mentioning everyone", its about "not excluding most people". Especially people who tend to be excluded from things like this.
Second, how is "crap like this" the reason why women arn't taken seriously in the world of "geeks"? Do you mean to tell me that the reason students in the lab I work in come to me with questions more often than my female co-workers is because people have been pointing out instances where women are excluded as members of this techno-clique? People stereotype women as being less techo-saavy than men, that is wrong, and something needs to be done about it.
Thirdly, I've been trying to figure out what it was about my comment that made so many people angry enough to reply. I'm not makeing some grand condemnation of the author, nor am I trying to label him as a sexist. I only made the comment because the way he was speaking implied to me that he sees "geeks" as only male, and this subconcious way of characterizing people is responsible for the weighted decisions people make against women. Why is the average Tech salary for women $10,000 under men? Its because of the same subconcious feelings about women in technology that would lead one to write the sort of comment I'm pointing out. So, what I'm saying is, we meerely need to "notice" comments like this, in order to insure we have the right ideas in our head rather than some stereotype which may lead us to make unfairly weighted decisions.
so, if you have the patience to reply to my comments, maybe you should also have the patience to listen to comments which you may think are "too damn literal". Trust me, the latter is much more important, since replying to my comment is only an attempt to critisize someone on thier right to critisize (hypocrisy?), while listening to my comment might make someone realize that they should put more thought into the stereotypes they have and the times at which they may weight thier decisions.
I'm not a feminist because I want to "pick up chicks" or impress people with my moral superiority or any bullshit like that (obvisuoly from the responses, thats not whats happening), rather I say things like this because I hate labels, stereotypes, biases, and other bullshit which represents an inconsistent and popular way of identifying and reasoning about individuals.