I think it's weird that some people have a fascination with humanoid robots in the first place.
Everything we have is designed to work with our humanoid bodies, so if we want to make a device that interfaces with those things, it will work better if it shares the humanoid design.
we'll forgive you because you released the source code for a texture mapper. Why?
Because unfolding UVs is a fucking pain. It's time consuming, and if this shader lets you skip that step, then I'll love you for giving it to me free of charge. It's like giving me back days of my future life. DAYS!
so now that you've taken a brave stand against uneducated hysteria, will you be leveling any kind of disapproval at your brand of (just demonstrated) uneducated complacency?
small hint for you to think about: underreacting is more dangerous than overreacting with something like the possibility of lethal epidemics. because you can waste a lot of money if you overreact, yes. but you can waste a lot of LIVES if you underreact. get it?
Well in that case I can't wait for the goat flu! I hope the government gives away designer face masks.
closest relative that last appeared was the spanish flu of 1918
Considering the widespread immunity of those over 60 years of age, that's obviously not true.
But boy, isn't it ever so scary top think so? Yeah? Then saying so is, get this, fear mongering. You need to take a step back from denying there was FUD slinging and consider the possibility that you bought into the FUD.
It is easy to flippantly ridicule a comment like this. However if you actually take the time to THINK about it for a little while, it may not be so crazy after all.
If you think about it and your conclusion is that they weren't already cursed back when they were slaves to the French, but they were cursed after, I think you may need to, you know, stop, take a deep breath, and consider taking a vow of silence.
fearmongering is when you pretty much know something is not a big deal, but you hype it up anyways. but we're talking about a brand new disease here.
No, we're talking about a strain of the flu. There's many of those every year.
there's only logic and reason there, no fear in play
What? Were you in a coma last fall?! Everytime someone on a respirator died from this strain of the flu, it was all "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!", meanwhile, a whole bunch of people on respirators died from the regular flu for each one that died of this strain, and that wasn't mongered into a multi-billion dollar vaccine/disinfectant/heathParaphenelia end of the world sale.
Guys, if you prepare for a disaster and it does not actually happen, that is a good thing.
Firefighters are generally not disappointed when there's no fire.
Firefighters would want to have a word with the guy who kept yelling "FIRE! FIRE!" in the theatre when all there was was a guy using a lighter to see the program.
China has never engaged in colonialism, nor has it ever been larger than it is now.
Listen, troll, you claim that China's culture is limited to China, and that's very easy to prove false. I won't be replying to your retarded comments after this because it's clear you're either honestly stupid or intentionally saying things that are false so you can goad me into feeding you with replies. So DIAF.
Yeah well I fucking hate "astroturfers" and marketeers disguising themselves as customers in forums, and having the government do it is ten times worse.
I'd say it's about the same.
Sure it's not nearly as evil as actually shutting down or censoring the content on forums, but that doesn't mean I like it.
I'd say, again, it's about the same, in term of evil. But much more subtle, more sophisticated. Like poisoning someone instead of bludgeoning them.
I mean, as an academic paper about conspiracy theories and how they could be defused, it doesn't sound that terrible*. As a government policy?
It sounds like a conspiracy theory! It sounds just like something most people would dismiss as crazy paranoia.
It's shitty, and I don't like it. If the government wants to make more information/propaganda available officially, that's fine with me. Hiding the source of information presented to the people is not how our government should work. Fuck that.
AMEN!
I thought there was some sense behind some of the 9/11 conspiracies... until I talked to a civil engineer who explained to me what would happen when the steel in a skyscraper was merely heated enough to weaken.
When I talk about how the White House told the EPA to lie about how safe it was to breathe all that mildewy concrete, asbestos and cadaver dust from the WTC on sept12 2001, people tell me I'm a conspiracy nut and that it's stupid/crazy to believe things like that.
the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA to make reassuring comments to the public; and on September 12 the EPA Administrator issued a memo saying that all statements to the media must be cleared by the National Security Council.
Numerous key differences between the draft versions and final versions of EPA statements were found. A recommendation that homes and businesses near ground zero be cleaned by professionals was replaced by a request that citizens follow orders* from NYC officials. Another statement that showed concerns about "sensitive populations" was deleted altogether. Language used to describe excessive amounts of asbestos in the area was altered drastically to minimize attention to the dangers it posed.[2]
*//that bit was the cherry on top of that bullshit sunday
Western culture refers to European culture which has evolved from Roman and Greek culture. It does not refer to the entire Western Hemisphere unless you want to start including Native Americans and Africans in Western culture.
No, I wanted you to be smart enough to compare a country to a country, but you're apparently not capable of that. DIAF.
do they simply advocate countering free speech with *GASP* more free speech? It sounds like propaganda
Speaking of which: http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."
"When your government/culture will have been at it for a few thousand years, you'll have a point."
The implication is that the Chinese have been at it for thousands of years, while westerners have not.
Explain to me, slowly, why you have a single country on one side, and an entire multinational hemisphere on the other.
Because I said nothing about comparing the whole of western civilization to one nation. Yet you, and others, jump to that conclusion, and worse, you keep implying that I also compare apples and oranges.
Or, you know, you could keep beating on that strawman... you really seem to enjoy it.
It struck me as possible that all the churn detected was in the other primate lineage, since they suggested that sperm competition is more common on the hairy side of the primate tree.
Possible, yes, but to me it seems unlikely that the divergence would be so one-sided.
But then, there's the Cultural Revolutions. It was suppose to cure "all ills of old cultures". So did the government/culture of PRC really in existence for thousands of years?
Congratulations for this post, it's the only one to have addressed the possible crack in my reply: He might have been referring to the cultural revolution when he said "government/culture", though I'm fairly certain it was not such an elaborate thought, but merely a nationalistic put down.
All the other replies were attacking some strawmen they named after me;-\
There's a difference between attacking the arguer alongside the argument and attacking only the arguer. You were doing the latter: the post was an ad hominem.
Quote the bit that you think was a personal attack against the speaker.
Him: "Their culture is t3h suck!" Me: "Its longevity proves it isn't." You: "OMG YOU'RE SUCH AN ASS FOR INSULTING HIM, YOU ASS!!!11!!1!"
Through your numerous reply of the same thing. I can only conclude that you are biased and not listening what other slashdotter is trying to point out here.
By replying to people I have given you the impression that I am not listening... wow, you're trying hard to be the stupidest person to reply in this thread, ain't ya?
While we are on topic on Chinese spying, are you one of those poster Chinese government owned droids trolling the internet posts for a good fight? Seriously I've seen many of them on many news site's discussion board.
Yes, and I'm doing it.... from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
The vocabulary you uses are not of typical of English speaking person would use. Rather I sense you either type in Chinese and then have the reply translated by a computer (are you using Google's language tool for the translation?), or you have an electronic Chinese/English dictionary rigth in front of you.
I'm actually torturing white anglo saxon protestant children to force them to translate for me... IN YOUR OWN HOUSE, no less.
We slashdot readers are technology centric people who cares about technology as well as the humanities in general around us. I don't think we really like to parade a particular nation for its virtues (just look at how much fun we have with the American government and businesses). We have good discussions on what is fair, and what is not. We are stongly opinionated, but we tend to respect each other's point. I think you should read the help section of the Slashdot's forum before posting any more and make a fool out of yourself.
I think you should break out a calculator and do some math involving our respective/. IDs while you're making an ass of yourself.
Your claim that western culture is young is patently absurd.
I made no such claim.
Maybe you could stop being an idiot for a sec and see if I was replying to a claim about Pan-Asian culture, or a claim to a single country's culture? Then, perhaps, you could muster up some brain cells to try to see if equivocting claims of one country VS one hemisphere is absurd?
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I think it's weird that some people have a fascination with humanoid robots in the first place.
Everything we have is designed to work with our humanoid bodies, so if we want to make a device that interfaces with those things, it will work better if it shares the humanoid design.
we'll forgive you because you released the source code for a texture mapper. Why?
Because unfolding UVs is a fucking pain. It's time consuming, and if this shader lets you skip that step, then I'll love you for giving it to me free of charge. It's like giving me back days of my future life. DAYS!
so now that you've taken a brave stand against uneducated hysteria, will you be leveling any kind of disapproval at your brand of (just demonstrated) uneducated complacency?
small hint for you to think about: underreacting is more dangerous than overreacting with something like the possibility of lethal epidemics. because you can waste a lot of money if you overreact, yes. but you can waste a lot of LIVES if you underreact. get it?
Well in that case I can't wait for the goat flu! I hope the government gives away designer face masks.
The most disturbing point in this article, for me, is that the US may be the sticking point on allowing the discussions to be more transparent
I just took that for granted. Thanks for the link.
immunity for those over 60, AND NOT YOUNGER, for a strain that killed millions
You've really convinced yourself that this is the same flu as 1918, huh?
closest relative that last appeared was the spanish flu of 1918
Considering the widespread immunity of those over 60 years of age, that's obviously not true.
But boy, isn't it ever so scary top think so? Yeah? Then saying so is, get this, fear mongering. You need to take a step back from denying there was FUD slinging and consider the possibility that you bought into the FUD.
It is easy to flippantly ridicule a comment like this. However if you actually take the time to THINK about it for a little while, it may not be so crazy after all.
If you think about it and your conclusion is that they weren't already cursed back when they were slaves to the French, but they were cursed after, I think you may need to, you know, stop, take a deep breath, and consider taking a vow of silence.
Words are fluid things. You're correct of course, that this is a theory involving use of a conspiracy. That, though, is an uncommon use of the word.
++good!
fearmongering is when you pretty much know something is not a big deal, but you hype it up anyways. but we're talking about a brand new disease here.
No, we're talking about a strain of the flu. There's many of those every year.
there's only logic and reason there, no fear in play
What? Were you in a coma last fall?! Everytime someone on a respirator died from this strain of the flu, it was all "WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE!", meanwhile, a whole bunch of people on respirators died from the regular flu for each one that died of this strain, and that wasn't mongered into a multi-billion dollar vaccine/disinfectant/heathParaphenelia end of the world sale.
Guys, if you prepare for a disaster and it does not actually happen, that is a good thing.
Firefighters are generally not disappointed when there's no fire.
Firefighters would want to have a word with the guy who kept yelling "FIRE! FIRE!" in the theatre when all there was was a guy using a lighter to see the program.
China has never engaged in colonialism, nor has it ever been larger than it is now.
Listen, troll, you claim that China's culture is limited to China, and that's very easy to prove false. I won't be replying to your retarded comments after this because it's clear you're either honestly stupid or intentionally saying things that are false so you can goad me into feeding you with replies. So DIAF.
Yeah well I fucking hate "astroturfers" and marketeers disguising themselves as customers in forums, and having the government do it is ten times worse.
I'd say it's about the same.
Sure it's not nearly as evil as actually shutting down or censoring the content on forums, but that doesn't mean I like it.
I'd say, again, it's about the same, in term of evil. But much more subtle, more sophisticated. Like poisoning someone instead of bludgeoning them.
I mean, as an academic paper about conspiracy theories and how they could be defused, it doesn't sound that terrible*. As a government policy?
It sounds like a conspiracy theory! It sounds just like something most people would dismiss as crazy paranoia.
It's shitty, and I don't like it. If the government wants to make more information/propaganda available officially, that's fine with me. Hiding the source of information presented to the people is not how our government should work. Fuck that.
AMEN!
I thought there was some sense behind some of the 9/11 conspiracies... until I talked to a civil engineer who explained to me what would happen when the steel in a skyscraper was merely heated enough to weaken.
When I talk about how the White House told the EPA to lie about how safe it was to breathe all that mildewy concrete, asbestos and cadaver dust from the WTC on sept12 2001, people tell me I'm a conspiracy nut and that it's stupid/crazy to believe things like that.
the White House Council on Environmental Quality influenced the EPA to make reassuring comments to the public; and on September 12 the EPA Administrator issued a memo saying that all statements to the media must be cleared by the National Security Council.
Numerous key differences between the draft versions and final versions of EPA statements were found. A recommendation that homes and businesses near ground zero be cleaned by professionals was replaced by a request that citizens follow orders* from NYC officials. Another statement that showed concerns about "sensitive populations" was deleted altogether. Language used to describe excessive amounts of asbestos in the area was altered drastically to minimize attention to the dangers it posed.[2]
*//that bit was the cherry on top of that bullshit sunday
Western culture refers to European culture which has evolved from Roman and Greek culture. It does not refer to the entire Western Hemisphere unless you want to start including Native Americans and Africans in Western culture.
No, I wanted you to be smart enough to compare a country to a country, but you're apparently not capable of that. DIAF.
Western culture is not a geographically isolated phenomena the way Chinese culture is
Ah, I get it now, you're so ignorant that you think China's cultural influence is limited to China. That explains a lot.
do they simply advocate countering free speech with *GASP* more free speech? It sounds like propaganda
Speaking of which: http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/13/drugs/print.html
With this deal in place, government officials and their contractors began approving, and in some cases altering, the scripts of shows before they were aired to conform with the government's anti-drug messages. "Script changes would be discussed between ONDCP and the show -- negotiated," says one participant.
Rick Mater, the WB network's senior vice president for broadcast standards, acknowledges: "The White House did view scripts. They did sign off on them -- they read scripts, yes."
this means "find the people saying things we don't like and replace them with people who say what we want."
And despite the meme at play, this is NOT a conspiracy theory, it is exactly what he is proposing.
It is SO a conspiracy theory. If it's also true, that doesn't make it any less of a conspiracy theory.
You've obviously come to think that {"conspiracy theory" = !true;} //You should free your mind.
Well, which is it?
Here is what you said:
"When your government/culture will have been at it for a few thousand years, you'll have a point."
The implication is that the Chinese have been at it for thousands of years, while westerners have not.
Explain to me, slowly, why you have a single country on one side, and an entire multinational hemisphere on the other.
Because I said nothing about comparing the whole of western civilization to one nation. Yet you, and others, jump to that conclusion, and worse, you keep implying that I also compare apples and oranges.
Or, you know, you could keep beating on that strawman... you really seem to enjoy it.
It struck me as possible that all the churn detected was in the other primate lineage, since they suggested that sperm competition is more common on the hairy side of the primate tree.
Possible, yes, but to me it seems unlikely that the divergence would be so one-sided.
But then, there's the Cultural Revolutions. It was suppose to cure "all ills of old cultures". So did the government/culture of PRC really in existence for thousands of years?
Congratulations for this post, it's the only one to have addressed the possible crack in my reply: He might have been referring to the cultural revolution when he said "government/culture", though I'm fairly certain it was not such an elaborate thought, but merely a nationalistic put down.
All the other replies were attacking some strawmen they named after me ;-\
There's a difference between attacking the arguer alongside the argument and attacking only the arguer. You were doing the latter: the post was an ad hominem.
Quote the bit that you think was a personal attack against the speaker.
Him: "Their culture is t3h suck!"
Me: "Its longevity proves it isn't."
You: "OMG YOU'RE SUCH AN ASS FOR INSULTING HIM, YOU ASS!!!11!!1!"
Through your numerous reply of the same thing. I can only conclude that you are biased and not listening what other slashdotter is trying to point out here.
By replying to people I have given you the impression that I am not listening... wow, you're trying hard to be the stupidest person to reply in this thread, ain't ya?
While we are on topic on Chinese spying, are you one of those poster Chinese government owned droids trolling the internet posts for a good fight? Seriously I've seen many of them on many news site's discussion board.
Yes, and I'm doing it.... from INSIDE YOUR HOUSE!
The vocabulary you uses are not of typical of English speaking person would use. Rather I sense you either type in Chinese and then have the reply translated by a computer (are you using Google's language tool for the translation?), or you have an electronic Chinese/English dictionary rigth in front of you.
I'm actually torturing white anglo saxon protestant children to force them to translate for me... IN YOUR OWN HOUSE, no less.
We slashdot readers are technology centric people who cares about technology as well as the humanities in general around us. I don't think we really like to parade a particular nation for its virtues (just look at how much fun we have with the American government and businesses). We have good discussions on what is fair, and what is not. We are stongly opinionated, but we tend to respect each other's point. I think you should read the help section of the Slashdot's forum before posting any more and make a fool out of yourself.
I think you should break out a calculator and do some math involving our respective /. IDs while you're making an ass of yourself.
Hardly, or do you think Western culture and beliefs were created in 1776?
No, but I think you're not intelligent enough to tell the difference between a hemisphere and a country.
Your claim that western culture is young is patently absurd.
I made no such claim.
Maybe you could stop being an idiot for a sec and see if I was replying to a claim about Pan-Asian culture, or a claim to a single country's culture? Then, perhaps, you could muster up some brain cells to try to see if equivocting claims of one country VS one hemisphere is absurd?
Western culture goes back to the ancient Greeks, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and even Egyptians.
The whole of western culture VS one nation's culture? Apples and orange.