By that logic, locking up murderers is also groupthink. I would beg to differ - groupthink is a decidedly different beast than a group of people all crying out against the same problem: in the latter case, the majority of the group has come to the conclusion that behaviour x is unwanted on their own, based on their personal experiences; and not because a lot of their peers also have that opinion.
So if he states that if he detects you running a spambot, he has the right to come over to your house and forcibly relieve you of your anal virginity, doesn't that solve the same problem ?
Stating intent does not necessarily make the announced action legal.
As an addition to the other people who already pointed out the existence of not-america, wouldn't you think that if they did so in the interest of mirror reading, that they would have, you know, MIRRORED the N ?
Plenty of people went to America after Columbus led the way. ISS should just be a waypoint to an international moon base by now, but it isn't. How are we ever going to find the monolith at this rate ?
My understanding is that flocculation occurs as the yeast goes into what is basically an alcohol-induced coma; thus flocculation would still occur and the yeast would stop fermenting, but it wouldn't settle on the bottom of the bottle. Space brewing would require extra filtering equipment.
I take it you're vegetarian, then ? Chickens have the right to live, after all.
Also, I have the right to smoke marihuana in my home. I'd like to see you explain that therefore you, too have that right in your home, as an american.
Well, there *is* a rather sizeable featureset missing compared to you-know-who, but those features are not used by a majority of the casual users. Note the cunning use of the word 'casual' there, though - I'm not meaning that to include secretaries, geeks and other people who either routinely produce sizeable documents or suffer from must-use-featureitis.
While that missing featureset is something that has traditionally received rather too little attention, I do believe that you are right: more bling is almost certain to up joe user's opinion of the software if he's never actually used it. This is exactly the way marketing works, incidentally: beauty sells, so you dump a hot chick on an otherwise worthless piece of junk, and suddenly people buy it.
> there is sound reason for the authority structure.
Entirely correct. What you fail to mention, is what that reason is: people who tend to think about things tend to be strangely reluctant to enthusiastically engage in suicidal missions. Their kind cowardly refuses to die for the fatherland, instead having reactionary ideas about living for the fatherland, instead.
Umm... "warriors" is the original name, really. The term "soldier" has been invented in order to differentiate "us" (the knight-in-shining-armor, ne'er-do-wrong heroes) from "them" (the evil, backstabbing barbarian hordes) while we kill them, rape their land and sow their wives with salt. Can't have any confusion about who the good guys are, right ?
The article is about IBM's new pulsed STM tech, and notes that "it may enable atom-scale memory in the future". They did NOT demonstrate single-atom DRAM.
Umm... I, for one, don't want a precedent where a big company VOLUNTARILY AND OF IT'S OWN VOLITION decides to send possibly incriminating data on a customer to the authorities, without any warrant or reporting duty.
Next thing you know, hosting providers will be scanning machines for the occurrence of the HDCP key on discs.
Stolen handscanners should be easy enough to remedy by tagging them and putting an alarm gate at the checkout exit.
I've never seen the things do that here, but I can see how it would be a bit annoying. On the other hand, the scanner telling me about a combo offer on something I've just scanned would be welcome; and *maybe* I could live with it prodding me about something in an isle I've been hesitating in - rfid + timer based, or something. That's a very definite MAYBE, though.
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YOU ARE AN IDIOT is the new YOU ARE NOTHING, apparently.
By that logic, locking up murderers is also groupthink. I would beg to differ - groupthink is a decidedly different beast than a group of people all crying out against the same problem: in the latter case, the majority of the group has come to the conclusion that behaviour x is unwanted on their own, based on their personal experiences; and not because a lot of their peers also have that opinion.
So if he states that if he detects you running a spambot, he has the right to come over to your house and forcibly relieve you of your anal virginity, doesn't that solve the same problem ?
Stating intent does not necessarily make the announced action legal.
Actually, I saw a scripting language some time ago that allows you to easily script GUI actions. No, not the old macro recorder :-)
Can't remember the name, though. Ah, thanks, Google: http://technoticles.com/2010/01/23/sikuli-the-graphical-scripting-language-from-mit/
As a prospective employee, you do not engage in commerce. Neither do most deskjockeys. Commerce is usually understood in the sense of owning a shop.
If they did that, the French would start whining because they're always put second.
As an addition to the other people who already pointed out the existence of not-america, wouldn't you think that if they did so in the interest of mirror reading, that they would have, you know, MIRRORED the N ?
If the godfather says you don't exist, you don't exist. He'll be coming over any time now, to make you an offer you cannot refuse.
> under certain conditions George W Bush
Those conditions being him breathing ?
Is this the version where Neil is wearing his 2009-issue Rolex ?
Neil forgot his watch the first time around.
Plenty of people went to America after Columbus led the way. ISS should just be a waypoint to an international moon base by now, but it isn't. How are we ever going to find the monolith at this rate ?
My understanding is that flocculation occurs as the yeast goes into what is basically an alcohol-induced coma; thus flocculation would still occur and the yeast would stop fermenting, but it wouldn't settle on the bottom of the bottle. Space brewing would require extra filtering equipment.
I take it you're vegetarian, then ? Chickens have the right to live, after all.
Also, I have the right to smoke marihuana in my home. I'd like to see you explain that therefore you, too have that right in your home, as an american.
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The Incas already predicted this happening in 2012, didn't they ?
I find your lack of faith disturbing.
Well, there *is* a rather sizeable featureset missing compared to you-know-who, but those features are not used by a majority of the casual users. Note the cunning use of the word 'casual' there, though - I'm not meaning that to include secretaries, geeks and other people who either routinely produce sizeable documents or suffer from must-use-featureitis.
While that missing featureset is something that has traditionally received rather too little attention, I do believe that you are right: more bling is almost certain to up joe user's opinion of the software if he's never actually used it. This is exactly the way marketing works, incidentally: beauty sells, so you dump a hot chick on an otherwise worthless piece of junk, and suddenly people buy it.
I, for one, welcome our bovine Martian overlords.
> there is sound reason for the authority structure.
Entirely correct. What you fail to mention, is what that reason is: people who tend to think about things tend to be strangely reluctant to enthusiastically engage in suicidal missions. Their kind cowardly refuses to die for the fatherland, instead having reactionary ideas about living for the fatherland, instead.
Umm... "warriors" is the original name, really. The term "soldier" has been invented in order to differentiate "us" (the knight-in-shining-armor, ne'er-do-wrong heroes) from "them" (the evil, backstabbing barbarian hordes) while we kill them, rape their land and sow their wives with salt. Can't have any confusion about who the good guys are, right ?
Better at *logical* problems, not behaviour seeded by /dev/random.
The article is about IBM's new pulsed STM tech, and notes that "it may enable atom-scale memory in the future". They did NOT demonstrate single-atom DRAM.
Umm... I, for one, don't want a precedent where a big company VOLUNTARILY AND OF IT'S OWN VOLITION decides to send possibly incriminating data on a customer to the authorities, without any warrant or reporting duty.
Next thing you know, hosting providers will be scanning machines for the occurrence of the HDCP key on discs.
Hmm.
Stolen handscanners should be easy enough to remedy by tagging them and putting an alarm gate at the checkout exit.
I've never seen the things do that here, but I can see how it would be a bit annoying. On the other hand, the scanner telling me about a combo offer on something I've just scanned would be welcome; and *maybe* I could live with it prodding me about something in an isle I've been hesitating in - rfid + timer based, or something. That's a very definite MAYBE, though.