It falls by only 100m every 90 km, and a quick updraft resolves that issue. In case of no updraft there are pedals in the floor for manual acceleration. It’s called a glider.
I think the fact that every time I show a girl or guy my Compiz desktop (I did put a lot of work in a professional color scheme and intelligent choices on spaces, fonts, effects etc), and what I can do (not the effects, but the power), that person tells me she/he wants that too, speaks volumes about how easy it is to woo people for open source.
Also you can always get a quick win on everyone using MS Office, by showing them, how OpenOffice still has the old menus and everything instead of the new ribbon & co.
But the key point is: If you don’t truly believe that open source is coolest and stand by it, how do you expect others to think the same?:)
I, for example, will proudly tell the cutest girl with enthusiasm, how cool I think it is, to be able to quickly hack together your custom “glue” bash scripts and customizations, and drag her in so much that she will think it’s cool. Because it is! (Beware, as girls detect even the slightest insecurities in your facial expressions, posture, gestures and everything.)
But hey, you first have to think you yourself are pretty cool and all, before being able to do this.:)
Actually I think this would be a very good idea for those disease-riddled (religious schizophrenia) areas. It would prevent reproduction, and stop the insanity pretty quickly.:)
Do you know what strikes me as being completely left out of your comment?
Why the hell did your retinas detach??
I mean weren’t you even interested in the actual cause? (And by cause I mean either a proven genetic defect, or something outside of your body that did something to it. [A cause is never just something in your body. Obviously.]) Because if you don’t know the reasons, there in no way you will ever prevent it from happening again the next time. You wouldn’t even know what to prevent.:/ Like running against a wall, taking painkillers, and continuing to run against that wall... yay... way to go!
and Wales said, "They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense."
1. Uuum, Jimmy, that’s the whole point of FOX News. 2. Uuum, Jimmy, you know, in the real world people don’t have to run their output trough you for approval to the “Wales” version of reality.
It’s a classic trick of arrogant people: Make up words to lift themselves from the “class of subhumans”. You see it very often in medicine, management, etc.
The difference being, that there are words that have a very specific meaning that is needed in that profession (like the anatomical directions), and there are other words that have no point besides having a separate word for above reasons. The second group mostly contains words that simply are the Latin or Greek equivalent for the exact same word in the native language.
...that sadly doctors are mostly full of shit. What I mean is that they are so mind-boggingly arrogant, even when they are not even remotely up-to-date. An example is the typical 60-year-old doc who hasn’t had a further training for 30 years, but does still say “There is no cure.” instead of “I don’t know a cure (yet).”, as if he knew that there never ever could be a cure, ever, because if he doesn’t know it, it can’t exist.
My brother told me, that that is a big problem, and well-known as the god complex.
And that is not the worst part. The worst part is that doctors seem to have no interest at all in actually finding the cause, and removing it. Instead you get everything you need, to hide away the symptoms. Pain killers, and all kinds of pills that only “make it go away” as long as you take them. Half the doctors I had to do with even acted insulted, when I demanded that they pursuit the actual cause, and tell me what it is.
Nowadays I don’t even bother anymore, and just learn the stuff myself. I only go to a doctor if I need to do tests, for surgery, or for stuff that I can’t get without a doc signing it off.
Especially in everything brain- or behavior-related they still live in the dark ages.
Actually, Firefox and Thunderbird can’t really. They are really weird later, and some things don’t quite work right. I had data loss because of it, and hence can’t use it.
Noone? Is that the brother of Chuck Norris? Noone Norris?
Because Chuck Norris WAS born with a black belt. A black belt at EVERYTHING. Even at things where having a black belt doesn’t make any sense. Like yelling. Yes, Chuck Norris has a BLACK. BELT. FOR. YELLING!;)
Yes, it’s an angry comment. But it’s also a very important true one.
But hey, why did I expect/. moderators to be grown-ups and value importance and truth higher than just going “comment angry! me angry now! gnah! comment baad! me smash comment!”.
You are being silly. Who made up that whole “absolute facts” bullshit. Yes, there are physical laws that can be called facts. But 99.999% of what you think you know for a “hard fact”, is only stuff you got from hearsay over sometimes a dozen people. You can not even remotely know it they are true. Much less if they are facts. And the same is true for everyone else on the planet. We can’t check everything ourselves.
Your “Mohnihan's Law” is just a massive pile of arrogance and ignorance.
Better be wise, and follow Socrates, who said: I know that I don’t know anything. Better know that you’re just as much relying on trusting persons that you don’t know at all, as everyone else.
Let’s just declare it a “nuclear testing zone”. After all it’s a desert and nobody can live there anyway.;)) (If that wasn’t true before, then it will definitely be, afterwards. ^^)
Oh come on, don’t be silly. Of course he could imagine those things. You just do. Let’s try this: I imagine a device that you can only see under the microscope to hold one bit per atom in it. (Plus some structural atoms.) I imagine a device that can manipulate the wave function of electrons, and hence store thousands of bits on a single electron (“globe”). I imagine that everyone on earth with a computer, holds a copy of all the data on earth, because everything is so fast and big, that there is no point to not having it cached on your disk anymore. And because humanity can’t produce new information fast enough anymore. Even after having thought up technology to log every single change everywhere all the time.
It’s silly to ask if one could imagine such things.:)
That whole “everything” is a file concept still just makes me smile every so often, when I read things like how easy it is to do certain things. Including things like maxing excess graphics ram on your graphics card a fast temp drive.
You know that in actual reality, is makes absolutely no sense to make the word suddenly “not ok”, because of a sexual context, do yo? The only reason people think it is “bad”, is because of a certain old business that used the first most important and beautiful thing to control and exploit humans with a mental disease called “religious schizophrenia” (“believers“). Interestingly, in the last years that business is mostly known for sexually abusing children.
The trick is that if you make something a sin that everybody loves, then everybody is a sinner, and hence everybody has to beg the church for forgiveness. The church can then demand actions to “make it OK again“. It’s really a elaborate mind game by a organization that has no scruple whatsoever... abusing the poor and sick. It disgusts me.
Yes, that means that those people that consider talking about sex or swearing (both also in front of children) a sin are kinda mentally ill. (I say “kinda” because in nature, what is a disease and what not, is always only a question of definition. [E.g: If nobody gets hurt, then is it a disease?]) I can even give you the neurological explanation for why this is a fact. (And a biochemist could explain that in terms of chemistry. And a physicist could explain that in terms of quantum physics.)
Punishing someone who didn’t hurt anyone, is hurting someone, and hence a crime. Swearing can not be considered hurting anyone. Simple as that.
Now physically it is completely possible for swearing to cause physical damage to someone. If his brain is set-up is a way that that input pattern triggers neurons that create the damage. (Either in the brain trough severe mis-association [or what the average Joe would call self-damaging irrational behavior], or in the rest of the body trough e.g. epilepsy, paralysis, etc.) But of course that can only happen if something previously set the brain up that way. (Usually a long process over multiple generations with at least one war and one abuse being involved.;)
Some people who are unable to live in normal society anymore, or have some weird associations in their brain. But you can’t be expected to be cautious of everything that could damage them. Or you could never go outside anymore, since all people are different. Imagine you walk down the street, and someone who got raped by someone in jeans sees you wearing them. This causes him to burst into tears, and he sues you for it. That’s the WTF that is the logical extension of making it illegal to swear.
I think the root of the problem is that the average Joe still thinks that there is such a thing as “the guilty one”. In science the concept of guilt is already thrown overboard. Because for everything that happened, you can say that it was caused by someone else, and that someone else is therefore the actual guilty one. And so on, until the beginning of the universe.
Things are just what they are. There is no good and evil. Asian philosophers knew this for a loong time. So logically there is only one “punishment” that is morally acceptable: Separation. In case of a community with common rules vs. one person with other rules: banishment. Or in case of two sets of people with vastly different views in one country: Splitting up the country. This is a good thing, as it allows everyone to happily live by his own rules. Because nobody should impose his rules on someone else. This is even true for murderers & co: Put them on an island, and let them see how they survive with nobody wanting contact with them. If the manage to survive, and manage to do enough good to be accepted peers again, then they are officially forgiven. And after some generations, there will again be a normal society of good people on that island. If not, and they die, or fail otherwise, then this is also a good thing. I consider such a system 100% fair and the best thing for everyone.
I personally have prior art. I came up with something like Diasproa at least five years ago. Except that I had a concept where those ideas were only a small part of a bigger concept encompassing everything from ebay over file-sharing, instant messaging, chat, forums, MMO base software, browsers, online communities, etc, etc, etc. Right now I have a design for a whole OS based on the concepts in my drawer. Replacing all things communication that exist. (And in case of the OS also all things storage.) No exceptions. Including usage as a replacement for a government. Yes that’s right. A whole government. So really it’s an old had. And I am deliberately not saying “invented”, because I was mostly building on the ideas that already existed. (As everyone usually does.)
Interesting, how there suddenly is this flood of Diaspora “articles” here on/.. I guess the motto must be: Repeat that it’s “oh so great”, until people start believing it. (Considering how many people here consider information a product that can be owned and stolen, it worked for MAFIAA FUD.)
Sorry, I looked into diaspora at the first article. And it’s noting more than a half-assed idea made into a quickly hacked-together piece of software. The problem is, that the foundational idea is not thought trough. Not even remotely. But as always, they run with it anyway, because they think they have thought it trough. But unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s by definition doomed to fail in the long run. Yes, the ideas are better then the current ones. But ridiculous compared to what could have been thought up. I know because I was at the level of thought of Diaspora about five years ago. And I had to dismiss it for the problem is brought with it, shortly thereafter. Like how extremely easy it is to subvert and abuse the whole thing into the same old mess we have now, only harder to kill.
So please think this trough to the end, and until then stop with the articles on something that doesn’t even really exist yet. It’s the definition of vaporware.
You can not steal a movie. That’s as absurd a thing to say, as “I shovel wrinklyness”. It’s a physically impossible thing to do.
Stealing means taking away something that someone owns. Making copies is not taking away. And in fact you can’t even take it away from who has it. You also can’t own information in the first place. Since ownership is defined as something you control. And with information, you can only either not prove that it exists at all, or you pass it on, and thereby lose control over it. It’s not avoidable. Those are the laws of information. Everything else is deliberate FUD.
Man, how much brainwashing did it take you, to actually believe that information is a physical object? I see this again, and again, from people who are supposed to fight the bullshit. It’s a sad sight. It feels as if they had won already. (Obviously they haven’t. And also, I know for a fact, that they themselves think that they already lost.:)
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It falls by only 100m every 90 km, and a quick updraft resolves that issue. In case of no updraft there are pedals in the floor for manual acceleration. It’s called a glider.
They are thinking “Well, you get it for free. if you wanna complain, pay us to change what you want to have changed! Or STFU. :P”
I think the fact that every time I show a girl or guy my Compiz desktop (I did put a lot of work in a professional color scheme and intelligent choices on spaces, fonts, effects etc), and what I can do (not the effects, but the power), that person tells me she/he wants that too, speaks volumes about how easy it is to woo people for open source.
Also you can always get a quick win on everyone using MS Office, by showing them, how OpenOffice still has the old menus and everything instead of the new ribbon & co.
But the key point is: If you don’t truly believe that open source is coolest and stand by it, how do you expect others to think the same? :)
I, for example, will proudly tell the cutest girl with enthusiasm, how cool I think it is, to be able to quickly hack together your custom “glue” bash scripts and customizations, and drag her in so much that she will think it’s cool. Because it is!
(Beware, as girls detect even the slightest insecurities in your facial expressions, posture, gestures and everything.)
But hey, you first have to think you yourself are pretty cool and all, before being able to do this. :)
Actually I think this would be a very good idea for those disease-riddled (religious schizophrenia) areas. It would prevent reproduction, and stop the insanity pretty quickly. :)
Do you know what strikes me as being completely left out of your comment?
Why the hell did your retinas detach??
I mean weren’t you even interested in the actual cause? (And by cause I mean either a proven genetic defect, or something outside of your body that did something to it. [A cause is never just something in your body. Obviously.]) :/
Because if you don’t know the reasons, there in no way you will ever prevent it from happening again the next time. You wouldn’t even know what to prevent.
Like running against a wall, taking painkillers, and continuing to run against that wall... yay... way to go!
and Wales said, "They don't even bother to contact me before publishing nonsense."
1. Uuum, Jimmy, that’s the whole point of FOX News.
2. Uuum, Jimmy, you know, in the real world people don’t have to run their output trough you for approval to the “Wales” version of reality.
Considering the “quality” of those textbook, that’s no surprise at all...
It’s a classic trick of arrogant people: Make up words to lift themselves from the “class of subhumans”.
You see it very often in medicine, management, etc.
The difference being, that there are words that have a very specific meaning that is needed in that profession (like the anatomical directions), and there are other words that have no point besides having a separate word for above reasons.
The second group mostly contains words that simply are the Latin or Greek equivalent for the exact same word in the native language.
...that sadly doctors are mostly full of shit. What I mean is that they are so mind-boggingly arrogant, even when they are not even remotely up-to-date. An example is the typical 60-year-old doc who hasn’t had a further training for 30 years, but does still say “There is no cure.” instead of “I don’t know a cure (yet).”, as if he knew that there never ever could be a cure, ever, because if he doesn’t know it, it can’t exist.
My brother told me, that that is a big problem, and well-known as the god complex.
And that is not the worst part. The worst part is that doctors seem to have no interest at all in actually finding the cause, and removing it. Instead you get everything you need, to hide away the symptoms. Pain killers, and all kinds of pills that only “make it go away” as long as you take them. Half the doctors I had to do with even acted insulted, when I demanded that they pursuit the actual cause, and tell me what it is.
Nowadays I don’t even bother anymore, and just learn the stuff myself. I only go to a doctor if I need to do tests, for surgery, or for stuff that I can’t get without a doc signing it off.
Especially in everything brain- or behavior-related they still live in the dark ages.
Actually, Firefox and Thunderbird can’t really. They are really weird later, and some things don’t quite work right. I had data loss because of it, and hence can’t use it.
Noone? Is that the brother of Chuck Norris? Noone Norris?
Because Chuck Norris WAS born with a black belt. A black belt at EVERYTHING. Even at things where having a black belt doesn’t make any sense. Like yelling. Yes, Chuck Norris has a BLACK. BELT. FOR. YELLING! ;)
You would not run production stuff on a windows release would you?
There, fixed that for ya... ^^
Uuum, with VirtualBox they recommend switching the hardware virtualization OFF, since their own implementation is a lot faster.
That’s a false extension of the original story. You can’t extend it like that. You misunderstood the meaning of the original story.
I think this comment should be +5, Flamebait.
Yes, it’s an angry comment. But it’s also a very important true one.
But hey, why did I expect /. moderators to be grown-ups and value importance and truth higher than just going “comment angry! me angry now! gnah! comment baad! me smash comment!”.
You are being silly. Who made up that whole “absolute facts” bullshit.
Yes, there are physical laws that can be called facts. But 99.999% of what you think you know for a “hard fact”, is only stuff you got from hearsay over sometimes a dozen people. You can not even remotely know it they are true. Much less if they are facts.
And the same is true for everyone else on the planet. We can’t check everything ourselves.
Your “Mohnihan's Law” is just a massive pile of arrogance and ignorance.
Better be wise, and follow Socrates, who said: I know that I don’t know anything.
Better know that you’re just as much relying on trusting persons that you don’t know at all, as everyone else.
Let’s just declare it a “nuclear testing zone”. After all it’s a desert and nobody can live there anyway. ;)) (If that wasn’t true before, then it will definitely be, afterwards. ^^)
Oh come on, don’t be silly. Of course he could imagine those things. You just do.
Let’s try this:
I imagine a device that you can only see under the microscope to hold one bit per atom in it. (Plus some structural atoms.)
I imagine a device that can manipulate the wave function of electrons, and hence store thousands of bits on a single electron (“globe”).
I imagine that everyone on earth with a computer, holds a copy of all the data on earth, because everything is so fast and big, that there is no point to not having it cached on your disk anymore. And because humanity can’t produce new information fast enough anymore.
Even after having thought up technology to log every single change everywhere all the time.
It’s silly to ask if one could imagine such things. :)
Even better: Use ZFS or LVM2 on it.
That whole “everything” is a file concept still just makes me smile every so often, when I read things like how easy it is to do certain things. Including things like maxing excess graphics ram on your graphics card a fast temp drive.
You know that in actual reality, is makes absolutely no sense to make the word suddenly “not ok”, because of a sexual context, do yo? The only reason people think it is “bad”, is because of a certain old business that used the first most important and beautiful thing to control and exploit humans with a mental disease called “religious schizophrenia” (“believers“).
Interestingly, in the last years that business is mostly known for sexually abusing children.
The trick is that if you make something a sin that everybody loves, then everybody is a sinner, and hence everybody has to beg the church for forgiveness. The church can then demand actions to “make it OK again“. It’s really a elaborate mind game by a organization that has no scruple whatsoever... abusing the poor and sick. It disgusts me.
Yes, that means that those people that consider talking about sex or swearing (both also in front of children) a sin are kinda mentally ill. (I say “kinda” because in nature, what is a disease and what not, is always only a question of definition. [E.g: If nobody gets hurt, then is it a disease?])
I can even give you the neurological explanation for why this is a fact. (And a biochemist could explain that in terms of chemistry. And a physicist could explain that in terms of quantum physics.)
I recommend not yelling it, but doing it. Much better! :D
(But please use the back seats if you look ugly, and the front seats if you look good. ^^)
Punishing someone who didn’t hurt anyone, is hurting someone, and hence a crime.
Swearing can not be considered hurting anyone.
Simple as that.
Now physically it is completely possible for swearing to cause physical damage to someone. If his brain is set-up is a way that that input pattern triggers neurons that create the damage. (Either in the brain trough severe mis-association [or what the average Joe would call self-damaging irrational behavior], or in the rest of the body trough e.g. epilepsy, paralysis, etc.) But of course that can only happen if something previously set the brain up that way. (Usually a long process over multiple generations with at least one war and one abuse being involved. ;)
Some people who are unable to live in normal society anymore, or have some weird associations in their brain. But you can’t be expected to be cautious of everything that could damage them. Or you could never go outside anymore, since all people are different.
Imagine you walk down the street, and someone who got raped by someone in jeans sees you wearing them. This causes him to burst into tears, and he sues you for it. That’s the WTF that is the logical extension of making it illegal to swear.
I think the root of the problem is that the average Joe still thinks that there is such a thing as “the guilty one”. In science the concept of guilt is already thrown overboard. Because for everything that happened, you can say that it was caused by someone else, and that someone else is therefore the actual guilty one. And so on, until the beginning of the universe.
Things are just what they are. There is no good and evil. Asian philosophers knew this for a loong time.
So logically there is only one “punishment” that is morally acceptable: Separation. In case of a community with common rules vs. one person with other rules: banishment. Or in case of two sets of people with vastly different views in one country: Splitting up the country.
This is a good thing, as it allows everyone to happily live by his own rules. Because nobody should impose his rules on someone else.
This is even true for murderers & co: Put them on an island, and let them see how they survive with nobody wanting contact with them. If the manage to survive, and manage to do enough good to be accepted peers again, then they are officially forgiven. And after some generations, there will again be a normal society of good people on that island.
If not, and they die, or fail otherwise, then this is also a good thing.
I consider such a system 100% fair and the best thing for everyone.
I personally have prior art. I came up with something like Diasproa at least five years ago. Except that I had a concept where those ideas were only a small part of a bigger concept encompassing everything from ebay over file-sharing, instant messaging, chat, forums, MMO base software, browsers, online communities, etc, etc, etc. Right now I have a design for a whole OS based on the concepts in my drawer. Replacing all things communication that exist. (And in case of the OS also all things storage.) No exceptions. Including usage as a replacement for a government. Yes that’s right. A whole government.
So really it’s an old had. And I am deliberately not saying “invented”, because I was mostly building on the ideas that already existed. (As everyone usually does.)
Interesting, how there suddenly is this flood of Diaspora “articles” here on /..
I guess the motto must be: Repeat that it’s “oh so great”, until people start believing it. (Considering how many people here consider information a product that can be owned and stolen, it worked for MAFIAA FUD.)
Sorry, I looked into diaspora at the first article. And it’s noting more than a half-assed idea made into a quickly hacked-together piece of software. The problem is, that the foundational idea is not thought trough. Not even remotely. But as always, they run with it anyway, because they think they have thought it trough. But unfortunately, that doesn’t change the fact that it’s by definition doomed to fail in the long run.
Yes, the ideas are better then the current ones. But ridiculous compared to what could have been thought up.
I know because I was at the level of thought of Diaspora about five years ago. And I had to dismiss it for the problem is brought with it, shortly thereafter. Like how extremely easy it is to subvert and abuse the whole thing into the same old mess we have now, only harder to kill.
So please think this trough to the end, and until then stop with the articles on something that doesn’t even really exist yet. It’s the definition of vaporware.
You can not steal a movie. That’s as absurd a thing to say, as “I shovel wrinklyness”. It’s a physically impossible thing to do.
Stealing means taking away something that someone owns. Making copies is not taking away. And in fact you can’t even take it away from who has it. You also can’t own information in the first place. Since ownership is defined as something you control. And with information, you can only either not prove that it exists at all, or you pass it on, and thereby lose control over it. It’s not avoidable.
Those are the laws of information. Everything else is deliberate FUD.
Man, how much brainwashing did it take you, to actually believe that information is a physical object? I see this again, and again, from people who are supposed to fight the bullshit. It’s a sad sight. It feels as if they had won already. :)
(Obviously they haven’t. And also, I know for a fact, that they themselves think that they already lost.