this story is sad. poor guy has obviously lost his marbles. unfortunately, 77 yrs old will do that, even to the most accomplished human (clearly, as is the case here) there are about 1,000 ways from here to sunday that suggest there must be intelligent, communicating life out there somewhere. I'm talking about life just like us. why? Cause we dont care about intelligent viruses. we only care about life just. like. us. ufo's and alien visitations however are a completely different topic. if you are asking me to belive in ufos, you are in effect asking me to believe in the most wide-ranging, far reaching successful conspiracy of all time. its not just governments that are looking up at the sky. its not just evil NSA or NASA, for that matter, that have radar, telescopes, etc. asking me to believe in ufos is like asking me to believe in santa: no i can't prove that santa don't exist. i CAN however prove that not a single piece of scientific evidence exists that suggests a santa. so, UFOs are silly, visitations are silly, but Drake equation suggests many many intelligent communicating species in Milky Way. Thousands, even under the most conservative assumptions. http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html
hrm.. and yet it was nancy pelosi's congress that passed the biggest farm subsidy bill of all time. 300 BILLION DOLLARS thats $300,000,000,000 why would anyone expect there to be a difference between the 2 parties? they are all the same people, motivated by the same thirst for manipulation and pseudo power. who changed the world more, bill gates or george bush?! if you have a genuine desire to *help* you go into philantropy if you have a genuine desire for "change" you go into business the only reason to go into politics, of either party, it cause u wanna push other people around and tell them you know what they oughtta do BETTER THAN they do! what a crock of shit! its like that high school bully who didnt go to college and became a cop instead.
p.s. You should also check out the SF comm. at www.librarything.com. I was about to write that, but here it is already! I agree, of the many websites that organize/recommend content, I think the librarything.com does a great, great job! excellent use of tags, you can input several of your favourite titles and see who else picked them and what their OTHER favourite titles are. I personally am not into fantasy, more sci fi, but thelibrarything.com helped me discover asher, and also Ian Banks. enjoy!
bejewled and friends and it should become a even greater ladies phone in other words, "ladies" phone means sux0r pos. like women's tv. or women's books. or women's movies (aka chick fliks) so yeah, in keepin w. apple's general dumb downdness and crapiness, so ladies phone, yeah!
how did this get modded "informative" ?! you can't look @ stock price without any perspective. You have to consider what the rest of the market did what direct competitors did how the share price change compares to share price movement everywhere else also how old the company is what market its in people constantly underestimate how sophisticated and complex finance is.
* Mass exodus of Microsoft employees to Google and other exciting and growing companies Lets see the numbers, please. what was the turnover exactly and how does it compare to the 5 yrs leading up to the change in leadership!? And how does it compare to the turnover @ google over the same time period!?
what is UP with that story? 1. iran is not offline 2. the has been no "5th" cut 3. there are no actual schneier comments in the link, just the blurb w. links to info about the cuts.
so like maybe it IS the Jimmy Carter, and maybe they are installing some sort of man-in-the-middle equipment, which requires a cut a re splice? thats a neat wrap up of both the surveilance AND the cyberwar aspects of this conspiracy
I think everyone is missing a key point here. Engineers at IBM and elsewhere are exempt. Easy rule of FLSA thumb: are you, at your sole discretion, making decisions that could impact the company bottom line? If the answer is yes, you are exempt. If you so much as conduct interviews to evaluate job applicants, you are exempt. Most likely, what happened at IBM is as follows: exempt status granted incorrectly to a bunch of positions who have 0 discretion/impact. Some easy examples I can think of would be software testers, qa analysts. People who follow precise scripts written by others to do their jobs. Engineers, designers, managers are exempt, and will continue to be exempt. The newly non-exempt (i would bet) aren't really key to IBM anyway, and will get screwed not only on the 15% cut, but also on holidays, sick days, vacation days, personal days, all the perks of an exempt position. so some disgruntled monkey and his greedy lawyer will get a hefty lump sums. In other words, this is a perfect perfect example of why unions suck. They want to lump you all together into some neat labeled "work force". All software jobs are not created equal. This is happening at many large companies. Especially with California offices. They have super hardcore FLSA applications over there.
Hrm. Without knowing exactly how you phrased the questions it is difficult to say whether they were indeed leading or not. also, in the U.S., 1 city does not a majority make. Your informal poll may be interesting, but is hardly conclusive. for example, did you ask "would you rather the government were doing nothing to prevent terrorist threats" ? i doubt your results would be the same. unfortunately, the fallacy that "6 years without an attack must mean that our anti terrorist efforts are paying off" is extremely common. even in the wall street journal, where they tend to have a relatively firm grip on both statistics and cause and effects. it is in our genetic program to assume an intelligent agent even when events are random (without cause). a big rock in the forrest may often be mistaken for a bear, but a bear is NEVER mistaken for a rock. for this reason, alot of people assume that "something" helped us avoid more burning planes flying into buildings. "something" is better than "nothing", rite? wrong. NYPD are still conducting random bag searches on NYC subways. Nevermind that tunnels are easily accessible via street grates, underground passages, alternative stations. Nevermind that a strategically placed explosive could do tremendous damage without the perp ever boarding the train via the 1 station where a search is being conducted. People, intelligent people, with firm grasp of statistics, tent to prefer even a pretence of activity to none at all.
"Something could happen to prevent the farmers in other coutries from getting new seeds from Monsanto. A war, embargo, natural disaster or other event could cut them off from America or the Western world, leaving them unable to grow more food and dooming millions of people to starvation. It would be insane to let this become a widespread method of farming. If something happens in one part of the world you want the rest to be able to carry on."
that makes no sense at all! buying monsanto seed =!being suddenly cut off from all other possible sources of seed
farmer a buys monsanto seed. doomsday embargo ensues, prevents farmer a from replenishing w. more monsanto seed. why can't farmer a buy some other seed now? and even if that were to be the case (some catastrophic utter isolation from the rest of the world), the original purchase from Monsanto wouldn't be the cause of it in any way that i can see.
actually, the "felony murder rule" has a pretty specific meaning, and doesn't mean what you think it does. its not just a "rule" about murder. its a rule that deals w. accomplices and how they are punished.
the dictionary people. its so easy. not misusing any word ever again = EASY!!!
hard to lose fat? sounds like a fat person!! no one was fat in a german concentration camp. now, isn't that something. quit eating, stop being fat. easy!
There is a v. useful framework for having an intelligent conversation in re likelihood of finding ET, the Drake equation: http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL Basic probability estimate, useful because it considers each factor separately, based on the best estimate available. You can play w. it and apply your own set of assumptions (i.e. probability of intelligent life evolving, etc). One fascinating implication (illumination?) of this approach is you see what a HUGE impact time scales have. 50yrs is nothing, not even a blink of an eye, when you are talking about finding some evidence of intelligent communicating life. Frankly, i think the 1 aspect of SETI that is insane is that anyone should expect anything but 0 in next several centuries. E My most pessimistic estimate calc'ed is about 1,000 intelligent communicating ALIVE races. Milky Way is 100K light years across. So maybe 1 intelligent communicating race per 100 light years on average? awesome.
uhm. the parent was talking about tactile response, and the negative impact of the lack thereof. what you are talking about: more data about where your fingers land or whatever, that could be achieved in precisely the same way WHILE STILL HAVING BUTTONS that provide tactile response.
yes more data is good. for you just as much as for your CPU, if not MORE so. Tactile response = more data for u. Good thing. Taking away data = bad thing. and for the sake of what. a prettier screen? sacrificing function for looks is shallow and dumb. kinda like your average iphone user!!
it must be so reassuring for the small minded good spellers among us to equate grammar w. intelligence! that seems to be the running theme of comments. unfortunately, well-worded comments =! intelligence comments. sigh. wish p0epl undertood dat!
"because the arctic ice cap is not "the ice caps". the antarctic ice cap has to melt too to raise sea levels that much."
why answer a question just by guessing? its a real question, and you don't sound like you know what you are talking about at all.
i looked it up.
so like if you take an ice cube, put in glass w. water, measure the surface, rite? after ice melts, surface doesn't move! so... when floating ice, ice that's already in the World's water bodies melts, water levels wont rise. however, if ice that is currently on land melts, that would apparently lead to rising water levels.
just use outlook 2 access gmail! heh. seriously, i do! for one thing, gmail is v. v. stupid about keyboard shortcuts. i have actually written to them to ask them to set up a setting that would allow users to select one of several basic email clients' shortcuts systems, in preferences. No reply, of course. nonetheless. lots of people have skillsets (from lappies, etc) that are built around keyboard shortcuts. Mine is all about Outlook. So, ez enough. I access gmail via my outlook. no ads, no bs, keyboard shortcuts work as they should.
did a quick search, looks like this is the author: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/author/M.Longo PhD physics, teaches U of MI another quick search of the article, and doesn't look like he mentions "Fingers of God" or Doppler at all. Outside the scope of the paper? i really wish people would stop w. the dumb ass soviet russia overlords bs perhaps that way, i could actually weed thru and see what the physicists have to to say on this.
Nobody has ever presented a valid argument for intelligent design, all they do is present multiple and often contradictory arguments _against_ evolution.
just really wanted to repeat that.
we need some kind of system where anyone that wants to actually contribute to discussions must read at least 3 basic rules of logical reasoning.
i for one, am so sick of ID morons and their minions i might throw up. or stop reading/.
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since there *IS* absolute proof showing the cause of second hand smoke...
would you please link to the absolute proof? please?
this story is sad. poor guy has obviously lost his marbles. unfortunately, 77 yrs old will do that, even to the most accomplished human (clearly, as is the case here)
there are about 1,000 ways from here to sunday that suggest there must be intelligent, communicating life out there somewhere. I'm talking about life just like us. why? Cause we dont care about intelligent viruses. we only care about life just. like. us.
ufo's and alien visitations however are a completely different topic. if you are asking me to belive in ufos, you are in effect asking me to believe in the most wide-ranging, far reaching successful conspiracy of all time.
its not just governments that are looking up at the sky.
its not just evil NSA or NASA, for that matter, that have radar, telescopes, etc.
asking me to believe in ufos is like asking me to believe in santa: no i can't prove that santa don't exist. i CAN however prove that not a single piece of scientific evidence exists that suggests a santa.
so, UFOs are silly, visitations are silly, but Drake equation suggests many many intelligent communicating species in Milky Way. Thousands, even under the most conservative assumptions.
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html
hrm.. and yet it was nancy pelosi's congress that passed the biggest farm subsidy bill of all time. 300 BILLION DOLLARS thats $300,000,000,000
why would anyone expect there to be a difference between the 2 parties? they are all the same people, motivated by the same thirst for manipulation and pseudo power. who changed the world more, bill gates or george bush?!
if you have a genuine desire to *help* you go into philantropy
if you have a genuine desire for "change" you go into business
the only reason to go into politics, of either party, it cause u wanna push other people around and tell them you know what they oughtta do BETTER THAN they do! what a crock of shit!
its like that high school bully who didnt go to college and became a cop instead.
I agree, of the many websites that organize/recommend content, I think the librarything.com does a great, great job! excellent use of tags, you can input several of your favourite titles and see who else picked them and what their OTHER favourite titles are. I personally am not into fantasy, more sci fi, but thelibrarything.com helped me discover asher, and also Ian Banks.
enjoy!
so yeah, in keepin w. apple's general dumb downdness and crapiness, so ladies phone, yeah!
you can't look @ stock price without any perspective.
You have to consider what the rest of the market did
what direct competitors did
how the share price change compares to share price movement everywhere else
also how old the company is
what market its in
people constantly underestimate how sophisticated and complex finance is. * Mass exodus of Microsoft employees to Google and other exciting and growing companies Lets see the numbers, please. what was the turnover exactly and how does it compare to the 5 yrs leading up to the change in leadership!?
And how does it compare to the turnover @ google over the same time period!?
what is UP with that story?
1. iran is not offline
2. the has been no "5th" cut
3. there are no actual schneier comments in the link, just the blurb w. links to info about the cuts.
how did this pass thru editors?
so like maybe it IS the Jimmy Carter, and maybe they are installing some sort of man-in-the-middle equipment, which requires a cut a re splice?
thats a neat wrap up of both the surveilance AND the cyberwar aspects of this conspiracy
I think everyone is missing a key point here. Engineers at IBM and elsewhere are exempt. Easy rule of FLSA thumb: are you, at your sole discretion, making decisions that could impact the company bottom line? If the answer is yes, you are exempt.
If you so much as conduct interviews to evaluate job applicants, you are exempt.
Most likely, what happened at IBM is as follows:
exempt status granted incorrectly to a bunch of positions who have 0 discretion/impact. Some easy examples I can think of would be software testers, qa analysts. People who follow precise scripts written by others to do their jobs.
Engineers, designers, managers are exempt, and will continue to be exempt.
The newly non-exempt (i would bet) aren't really key to IBM anyway, and will get screwed not only on the 15% cut, but also on holidays, sick days, vacation days, personal days, all the perks of an exempt position.
so some disgruntled monkey and his greedy lawyer will get a hefty lump sums.
In other words, this is a perfect perfect example of why unions suck. They want to lump you all together into some neat labeled "work force". All software jobs are not created equal.
This is happening at many large companies. Especially with California offices. They have super hardcore FLSA applications over there.
Hrm.
Without knowing exactly how you phrased the questions it is difficult to say whether they were indeed leading or not.
also, in the U.S., 1 city does not a majority make. Your informal poll may be interesting, but is hardly conclusive.
for example, did you ask "would you rather the government were doing nothing to prevent terrorist threats" ?
i doubt your results would be the same.
unfortunately, the fallacy that "6 years without an attack must mean that our anti terrorist efforts are paying off" is extremely common. even in the wall street journal, where they tend to have a relatively firm grip on both statistics and cause and effects.
it is in our genetic program to assume an intelligent agent even when events are random (without cause). a big rock in the forrest may often be mistaken for a bear, but a bear is NEVER mistaken for a rock. for this reason, alot of people assume that "something" helped us avoid more burning planes flying into buildings.
"something" is better than "nothing", rite? wrong.
NYPD are still conducting random bag searches on NYC subways. Nevermind that tunnels are easily accessible via street grates, underground passages, alternative stations. Nevermind that a strategically placed explosive could do tremendous damage without the perp ever boarding the train via the 1 station where a search is being conducted. People, intelligent people, with firm grasp of statistics, tent to prefer even a pretence of activity to none at all.
wow you guys are ALL completely missing the point!
w the stupid memes repeated 8 times
did anyone RTFA? did anyone watch the video?
they are sending ROBOTS TO EUROPA! they are going to GET UNDER THE ICE! and find life!!!!!
so why on earth can't they hold on to "last year's harvest seeds" going forward?
buying monsanto seeds =!destroy all other seed anyone ever had
"Something could happen to prevent the farmers in other coutries from getting new seeds from Monsanto. A war, embargo, natural disaster or other event could cut them off from America or the Western world, leaving them unable to grow more food and dooming millions of people to starvation. It would be insane to let this become a widespread method of farming. If something happens in one part of the world you want the rest to be able to carry on."
that makes no sense at all! buying monsanto seed =!being suddenly cut off from all other possible sources of seed
farmer a buys monsanto seed. doomsday embargo ensues, prevents farmer a from replenishing w. more monsanto seed. why can't farmer a buy some other seed now? and even if that were to be the case (some catastrophic utter isolation from the rest of the world), the original purchase from Monsanto wouldn't be the cause of it in any way that i can see.
actually, the "felony murder rule" has a pretty specific meaning, and doesn't mean what you think it does.
its not just a "rule" about murder. its a rule that deals w. accomplices and how they are punished.
the dictionary people. its so easy. not misusing any word ever again = EASY!!!
"Of course all that I have said is randomly collated trivia that may possible not be as factual as I was lead to believe."
why go thru the trouble of typing out randomly collated trivia?
why not just look it up!>?!
hard to lose fat? sounds like a fat person!! no one was fat in a german concentration camp. now, isn't that something.
quit eating, stop being fat. easy!
There is a v. useful framework for having an intelligent conversation in re likelihood of finding ET, the Drake equation:
http://www.activemind.com/Mysterious/Topics/SETI/drake_equation.html
N = N* fp ne fl fi fc fL
Basic probability estimate, useful because it considers each factor separately, based on the best estimate available. You can play w. it and apply your own set of assumptions (i.e. probability of intelligent life evolving, etc).
One fascinating implication (illumination?) of this approach is you see what a HUGE impact time scales have. 50yrs is nothing, not even a blink of an eye, when you are talking about finding some evidence of intelligent communicating life. Frankly, i think the 1 aspect of SETI that is insane is that anyone should expect anything but 0 in next several centuries. E
My most pessimistic estimate calc'ed is about 1,000 intelligent communicating ALIVE races. Milky Way is 100K light years across. So maybe 1 intelligent communicating race per 100 light years on average?
awesome.
uhm. the parent was talking about tactile response, and the negative impact of the lack thereof.
what you are talking about: more data about where your fingers land or whatever, that could be achieved in precisely the same way WHILE STILL HAVING BUTTONS that provide tactile response.
yes more data is good. for you just as much as for your CPU, if not MORE so. Tactile response = more data for u. Good thing. Taking away data = bad thing. and for the sake of what. a prettier screen?
sacrificing function for looks is shallow and dumb. kinda like your average iphone user!!
it must be so reassuring for the small minded good spellers among us to equate grammar w. intelligence! that seems to be the running theme of comments. unfortunately, well-worded comments =! intelligence comments.
sigh.
wish p0epl undertood dat!
"because the arctic ice cap is not "the ice caps". the antarctic ice cap has to melt too to raise sea levels that much."
why answer a question just by guessing? its a real question, and you don't sound like you know what you are talking about at all.
i looked it up.
so like if you take an ice cube, put in glass w. water, measure the surface, rite? after ice melts, surface doesn't move! so... when floating ice, ice that's already in the World's water bodies melts, water levels wont rise.
however, if ice that is currently on land melts, that would apparently lead to rising water levels.
you know, same here! i heard that many times, too, growing up!
so where is the water!?
just use outlook 2 access gmail!
heh.
seriously, i do!
for one thing, gmail is v. v. stupid about keyboard shortcuts. i have actually written to them to ask them to set up a setting that would allow users to select one of several basic email clients' shortcuts systems, in preferences. No reply, of course.
nonetheless.
lots of people have skillsets (from lappies, etc) that are built around keyboard shortcuts. Mine is all about Outlook. So, ez enough. I access gmail via my outlook. no ads, no bs, keyboard shortcuts work as they should.
w00t
did a quick search, looks like this is the author: http://front.math.ucdavis.edu/author/M.Longo
PhD physics, teaches U of MI
another quick search of the article, and doesn't look like he mentions "Fingers of God" or Doppler at all. Outside the scope of the paper?
i really wish people would stop w. the dumb ass soviet russia overlords bs
perhaps that way, i could actually weed thru and see what the physicists have to to say on this.
ha
i dont believe that sh!t for a minute.
childhood rape trauma... cry about it on slashdot?!
that's preposterous.
judging by that ALONE i'd say that yes, OCD isn't your BIGGEST or ONLY problem.
nobody cares.
u r prolly lying.
or your overpaid "therapist" compelled some madeup fantasy out of you.
or
u r prolly some dirty old man!!
Nobody has ever presented a valid argument for intelligent design, all they do is present multiple and often contradictory arguments _against_ evolution.
/.
just really wanted to repeat that.
we need some kind of system where anyone that wants to actually contribute to discussions must read at least 3 basic rules of logical reasoning.
i for one, am so sick of ID morons and their minions i might throw up.
or stop reading
or both!