Well, to people who think that a Higgs boson is gravity, I guess it is informative. For everyone else, it's sort of like saying "a watermelon is NOT a puppy dog".
I got troll-modded for saying that a Higgs boson was not gravity? How does that work?
The Higgs boson is a hypothetical massive scalar elementary particle predicted to exist by the Standard Model of particle physics. It is the only Standard Model particle not yet observed, but would help explain how otherwise massless elementary particles still manage to construct mass in matter. In particular, it would explain the difference between the massless photon and the relatively massive W and Z bosons. Elementary particle masses, and the differences between electromagnetism (caused by the photon) and the weak force (caused by the W and Z bosons), are critical to many aspects of the structure of microscopic (and hence macroscopic) matter; thus, if it exists, the Higgs boson has an enormous effect on the world around us.
Me and the 'little woman' play Civ 3 and 4 when the kids go to bed, just because it's really easy to play for however much time we have to spare. We started with Civ II, but I kept kicking her ass. Then we moved to Civ III, and she started kicking MY ass. Fortunately, we're pretty matched at 4, and it keeps us humble.
But all these MMOs... I played WoW for a little bit, and City Of Cookie Cutters, and some other ones, and all I could remember of the experience was "Man, Diablo II was more fun than this..." and I never played again. But someday, someday, an MMO will appear that will appeal to me. I'm scared.
Because I have a wife, and kids, and a job, and all these MMOs are just lurking around in local stores, threatening to take it all away from me. Fortunately, none have been good enough to get me to play, but someday... someday...
Shear fact? This is a password for a computer, not a pair of scissors...
Oh, I get it! Your spelling mistakes are a form of security! If you don't have the exact right level of literacy, your computer won't let you post. Ho ho, very clever!
My son is 6, and he'd memorized his User ID and password for Club Penguin when he was 5. It shouldn't be that difficult, but I guess is this girl has more than one password going at a time, it could all get jumbled.
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The last resort of the desperate Internet argument.
Still, this will either a) finally put down on paper that file sharing is not theft, or b) put down on paper that the exchange of copyrighted information is, in fact, theft, and then everyone is in a world of poop. My old VHS recordings of Red Dwarf and The Muppets will suddenly become a complicated legal quagmire.
I am all for personal responsibility, but this case, and cases like it, I feel, deserve a little bit of slack given the extenuating circumstances.
1.) She was 13. I know now it's easy for adults, and extremely cynical teenagers, to say "Well, why didn't she just ignore it?" Well, in the case, the 'boy' spent months talking to her, gaining trust and personal information, before beginning to slam her and threaten her, and when you're 13 years old, the internets ARE serious business. You can't seriously be expected to just be able to brush off someone threatening to spread horrible lies about you in the school setting, where you will spend the next several years sandwiched between social layers.
2.) The parents did this because of a spat their daughter was having with Megan. Screw protecting kids online from bullying, how about we find a way to weed sociopaths like this out of the genetic pool, and certainly prevent them from having kids. What the hell is the other girl going to be like when she grows up? "I had an argument with a friend when I was 13, so my parents arranged for her to die. They didn't go to jail for that, so I guess it's ok!"
I know how much crap I ended up in in high school when I spread a TRUE story about someone online (I wasn't spreading it maliciously, it was just conversational) and in 'retaliation', the people involved started spreading some very creative lies about me. Maybe instead of passing laws to protect children from the horrors of assholes, we should be educating them at a PARENTAL LEVEL about the internet, "serious business", and the ability of "Ignore" features on most messaging software.
Insurer: Ok, Mr Smith, let's have a little puff here...
*puffpuff*
Insurer: Ooooh, that's not good... according to this you need to pay $435 per month. Sorry, blame technology.
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Well, to people who think that a Higgs boson is gravity, I guess it is informative. For everyone else, it's sort of like saying "a watermelon is NOT a puppy dog".
Basically, no.
Then you need to read the original article, where the "boy" told her she should just kill herself.
The pink atoms won't let the black atoms share a molecule with them.
Me and the 'little woman' play Civ 3 and 4 when the kids go to bed, just because it's really easy to play for however much time we have to spare. We started with Civ II, but I kept kicking her ass. Then we moved to Civ III, and she started kicking MY ass. Fortunately, we're pretty matched at 4, and it keeps us humble.
But all these MMOs... I played WoW for a little bit, and City Of Cookie Cutters, and some other ones, and all I could remember of the experience was "Man, Diablo II was more fun than this..." and I never played again. But someday, someday, an MMO will appear that will appeal to me. I'm scared.
Because I have a wife, and kids, and a job, and all these MMOs are just lurking around in local stores, threatening to take it all away from me. Fortunately, none have been good enough to get me to play, but someday... someday...
The ISPs died for my sins.
Shear fact? This is a password for a computer, not a pair of scissors...
Oh, I get it! Your spelling mistakes are a form of security! If you don't have the exact right level of literacy, your computer won't let you post. Ho ho, very clever!
My son is 6, and he'd memorized his User ID and password for Club Penguin when he was 5. It shouldn't be that difficult, but I guess is this girl has more than one password going at a time, it could all get jumbled.
In that case, please send me 75 cents for reading my post.
Use of those words must be granted expressly by the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary. Please cease and desist all use of "hard words" until our lawyers can be in contact with you.
The last resort of the desperate Internet argument.
Still, this will either a) finally put down on paper that file sharing is not theft, or b) put down on paper that the exchange of copyrighted information is, in fact, theft, and then everyone is in a world of poop. My old VHS recordings of Red Dwarf and The Muppets will suddenly become a complicated legal quagmire.
Now, quagmire is semantically defined as...
The French already had one. It was very nice.
No, it belongs to whoever gets there first with guns. Don't you watch the news?
Yup... she got over it. She'll never have to think about being bullied ever again.
It was a comment made in anger, not a call for eugenics. True sociopaths can't be 'discovered' that way.
Nice oblique reference to the Holocaust... I will certainly lend your arguments more credibility in the future because of this.
I am all for personal responsibility, but this case, and cases like it, I feel, deserve a little bit of slack given the extenuating circumstances.
1.) She was 13. I know now it's easy for adults, and extremely cynical teenagers, to say "Well, why didn't she just ignore it?" Well, in the case, the 'boy' spent months talking to her, gaining trust and personal information, before beginning to slam her and threaten her, and when you're 13 years old, the internets ARE serious business. You can't seriously be expected to just be able to brush off someone threatening to spread horrible lies about you in the school setting, where you will spend the next several years sandwiched between social layers.
2.) The parents did this because of a spat their daughter was having with Megan. Screw protecting kids online from bullying, how about we find a way to weed sociopaths like this out of the genetic pool, and certainly prevent them from having kids. What the hell is the other girl going to be like when she grows up? "I had an argument with a friend when I was 13, so my parents arranged for her to die. They didn't go to jail for that, so I guess it's ok!"
I know how much crap I ended up in in high school when I spread a TRUE story about someone online (I wasn't spreading it maliciously, it was just conversational) and in 'retaliation', the people involved started spreading some very creative lies about me. Maybe instead of passing laws to protect children from the horrors of assholes, we should be educating them at a PARENTAL LEVEL about the internet, "serious business", and the ability of "Ignore" features on most messaging software.
But that's just me.
*sob*
Where's my gun...
I believe that sort of deathalyzer is just a mirror held under the corpse's nose.
Good point....
Insurer: Ok, Mr Smith, let's have a little puff here...
*puffpuff*
Insurer: Ooooh, that's not good... according to this you need to pay $435 per month. Sorry, blame technology.
... the machine keeps declaring that everyone has "Stupidity"...
*reads your post*
I wub roo...