No one is holding a gun to your head to have a computer. We got along years just fine without them for years [sic]. Very few people really need them - the rest of you just seem to use them to show off, be annoying, or create hazardous network conditions.
Ok, Captain Self-righteous, cell phones aren't *necessary*. But they are *useful* and *fun* (hey, just like computers). And they exist, and you can't take them back now. People use them because they like to be in touch wherever they go. And if they don't want to be in touch, they leave their cell phone at home. It's about choice.
Oh because paying attention to your outward presentation is an accurate measure of logical thinking ability and attention to detail in other matters? Then I guess the sorority bitches on my campus who won't leave their cushy apartments with one hair out of place or lipstick that doesn't complement their purse would be the best engineers.
Get over yourself. This isn't the place to be proving how much "cooler" you are than engineers.
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No. What the person actually meant was that 50% of Americans fall below the *mean* intelligence (averages are skewed by extremes, means are not. The mean is the middle value - ie. 50% fall above, 50% below).
However you are not right either. "Below average intelligence" encompasses just barely below average, way below average, and Total Drooling Moron. Just knowing they are below average doesn't tell you anything about how their intelligence will affect the average.
I was about to remind you/. guys that there *are* female technophiles out there, cause I'm one... but then I remembered I'm a lesbian so that doesn't help you much:o)
Sorry boys.
I can't account for why girls don't get into geek stuff more often... maybe if the 12 year old boys weren't so scared of us and *invited* us over to play dungeons and dragons every once in a while....
But to remain on topic, even if I had the money for it right now I would rather spend my money on 1) a good phone and 2) a good camera than a lame combination of the two.
An regular airplane might still weigh less total then an airplane with a bunch of rotating ceramic discs and electromagnets strapped to it, if the weight reduction is only 2%.
Yeah, because AIDS is a purely homosexual phenomenon. It doesn't spread like wildfire through unsafe heterosexual relations in Africa. It certainly doesn't affect heterosexual drug users, people who have had blood transfusions, ordinary everyday heterosexuals whose mate had an unwise affair. I'm sure a loving god smites innocent people to "cure" the world of men who love other men, while doing nothing to wife batterers, rapists, child molesters, and other creeps. This worm may be a well deserved plague on thieves, but don't compare it to a misbegotten theory that blames a real tragedy, AIDS, on its own innocent victims.
Well, that is a big difference. Information is only moderately isomorphic to "goods and services" and should not be treated as exact equals in the economic system. With the technology of distributing information only now beginning to approach the ideal, we're going to have to figure out how to deal with the economics of information... only it's self-affecting, since the technology of distributing information itself is composed of information. Very complex. The shoe that fits on industry's foot and biotechnology's foot with debatable success is clearly not going to fit on information technology's foot... at least without cutting off any toes...
I was a college student majoring in piano performance, and then I got tendonitis in my wrists from the intensity of the stuff I was playing. It sucked, I had to change my major, and my level of performance has dropped significantly because I can't practice the 4 hours a day I used to. I can barely stand to listen to myself play now. But, if this had never happened to me, I would not have the programming job I have now (it's two different kinds of motion, that's why I can type but not play.) Everything works out if you're not a whiner and can look on the bright side of life;-)
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ships of fools. Helen didn't "start a war" in the sense of doing something active--invading another country, revolting, oppressing, or any of those other war-starting activities. She was given, like chattel, to a man by the gods after she'd already been given, like chattel, to another man by her father, I'm sure. Her first "husband"/owner just happened to be infantile and powerful enough to start a war over it.
To people who know about genetic stuff: Is it true that two women having children together with this techique would only be able to have female children because of a lack of the y chromosome? Thus men would not be obsolete because we do need to keep some boys around for looks and hetero action. (I guess some people are into that:-D) --
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No one is holding a gun to your head to have a computer. We got along years just fine without them for years [sic]. Very few people really need them - the rest of you just seem to use them to show off, be annoying, or create hazardous network conditions.
Ok, Captain Self-righteous, cell phones aren't *necessary*. But they are *useful* and *fun* (hey, just like computers). And they exist, and you can't take them back now. People use them because they like to be in touch wherever they go. And if they don't want to be in touch, they leave their cell phone at home. It's about choice.
Oh because paying attention to your outward presentation is an accurate measure of logical thinking ability and attention to detail in other matters? Then I guess the sorority bitches on my campus who won't leave their cushy apartments with one hair out of place or lipstick that doesn't complement their purse would be the best engineers.
Get over yourself. This isn't the place to be proving how much "cooler" you are than engineers.
No. What the person actually meant was that 50% of Americans fall below the *mean* intelligence (averages are skewed by extremes, means are not. The mean is the middle value - ie. 50% fall above, 50% below).
However you are not right either. "Below average intelligence" encompasses just barely below average, way below average, and Total Drooling Moron. Just knowing they are below average doesn't tell you anything about how their intelligence will affect the average.
I was about to remind you /. guys that there *are* female technophiles out there, cause I'm one... but then I remembered I'm a lesbian so that doesn't help you much :o)
Sorry boys.
I can't account for why girls don't get into geek stuff more often... maybe if the 12 year old boys weren't so scared of us and *invited* us over to play dungeons and dragons every once in a while....
But to remain on topic, even if I had the money for it right now I would rather spend my money on 1) a good phone and 2) a good camera than a lame combination of the two.
An regular airplane might still weigh less total then an airplane with a bunch of rotating ceramic discs and electromagnets strapped to it, if the weight reduction is only 2%.
Yeah, because AIDS is a purely homosexual phenomenon. It doesn't spread like wildfire through unsafe heterosexual relations in Africa. It certainly doesn't affect heterosexual drug users, people who have had blood transfusions, ordinary everyday heterosexuals whose mate had an unwise affair. I'm sure a loving god smites innocent people to "cure" the world of men who love other men, while doing nothing to wife batterers, rapists, child molesters, and other creeps. This worm may be a well deserved plague on thieves, but don't compare it to a misbegotten theory that blames a real tragedy, AIDS, on its own innocent victims.
Well, that is a big difference. Information is only moderately isomorphic to "goods and services" and should not be treated as exact equals in the economic system. With the technology of distributing information only now beginning to approach the ideal, we're going to have to figure out how to deal with the economics of information... only it's self-affecting, since the technology of distributing information itself is composed of information. Very complex. The shoe that fits on industry's foot and biotechnology's foot with debatable success is clearly not going to fit on information technology's foot... at least without cutting off any toes...
I was a college student majoring in piano performance, and then I got tendonitis in my wrists from the intensity of the stuff I was playing. It sucked, I had to change my major, and my level of performance has dropped significantly because I can't practice the 4 hours a day I used to. I can barely stand to listen to myself play now. But, if this had never happened to me, I would not have the programming job I have now (it's two different kinds of motion, that's why I can type but not play.) Everything works out if you're not a whiner and can look on the bright side of life ;-)
If MAN is obsolete, then... why... would the robots.... be bothering to make new human babies at all? As pets?
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ships of fools. Helen didn't "start a war" in the sense of doing something active--invading another country, revolting, oppressing, or any of those other war-starting activities. She was given, like chattel, to a man by the gods after she'd already been given, like chattel, to another man by her father, I'm sure. Her first "husband"/owner just happened to be infantile and powerful enough to start a war over it. :-D)
To people who know about genetic stuff: Is it true that two women having children together with this techique would only be able to have female children because of a lack of the y chromosome? Thus men would not be obsolete because we do need to keep some boys around for looks and hetero action. (I guess some people are into that
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