People on slashdot do probably tend to a social group not overly concerned with most sports. But I have to say that I've had the same experience in terms of apathy. I literally know nobody, young or old, who actually cares about the olympics. Nationalism + watching sports instead of participating = not interesting for anyone I know.
I've been following this kind of thing for some time. Don't worry, there's no shortage of scientists that no matter their belief, are adamant in wanting to think that there's something magic about the human mind.
I've been forbidden to carry a camera somewhere once in my life. They also had a policy of forbidding cellphones of people who claimed it had no camera, under the assumption that all phones have cameras.
The look of the roku box seems a minor gripe. It's 'very' small, and can just be tossed behind the tv if you want given that there's no need to ever touch anything on it again once it's plugged in.
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It's the medical angle for the sick and injured which makes me support and idea like this as well. As you say, there's just not a huge amount of either funding or public interest in things like prosthetics. It's good, in my opinion, compared to what it might be. But good is miles away from the amount of attention it should be getting. If even a fraction of the people into football suddenly started putting support into that, I think we could make some pretty huge leaps for the public good.
I think that one of the biggest problems is that children are seldom exposed to actual science. Their classes instead come down to memorizing scientific findings, devoid of the process behind it. That's like having someone memorize "2 + 2 = 4" without any understanding of what numbers are or the ability to know that "2 + 3 = 5". When kids are raised to be scientifically illiterate, I don't find it at all surprising that they have little interest in the subject.
Thank you. The expression of technophobia might differ among generic poloitical orientation. But it's the actual ignorance and fear of science and new technology that's the problem, not the politics.
I had the same experience in Montana. It was so unusual for someone to do so that I received comments pretty quickly at the grocery store about how little meat I bought.
I hate the implication that geeks don't work out. I'm in far better shape than any of the sports nuts I know. We're geeks, we like crunching numbers and living by a set schedule. We excel in the very things that makes it hard for most people to stay in shape.
Flying has gone from a pleasure to something I dread for this reason. I've been having horrible luck with that recently. The past three trips I've been next to an overweight person, to the point of getting scrunched into the wall. I'm not saying I need space enough for laptop use, but it's just ridiculous when I don't even have the space to reach under the seat to grab a paperback. There's really nobody to blame, but it really is annoying.
Creationists and ID people have never needed time to come up with ways to bury their heads in the sand. The people who subscribe to it never go to outside sources again to see if the party line has been refuted so even outright lies are usually good enough. Look at the recent thing with bacterial evolution, when frozen samples were right there and the creationists in general just decided to ignore that fact.
Do you really need the exploration part if the goal is a colonization though? It seems like if the main benefit of human exploration is a sideproduct of it, testing humans in space, than it'd be cheaper and more efficient to just directly test humans in space and methods for creating artificial environments here on earth.
The bible can mean anything someone in power wants it to. Even if it outright said "Hey, this is a planet called earth, it's the only place there's life." it'd be labeled a metaphor the second life was found somewhere else.
And people don't get that this is happening, constantly, at every level. Even the local government in most places is absolutely ridiculous in terms of passing pointless laws.
Recording everything that happens to you is easy, that techs been around for ages now. What I'm interested in, and what was only given glancing mention, is how it's actually searched through and retrieved. Most people get annoyed with me if I take two minutes to search through my email for something, and that's just a plain text search. I can't even imagine the problems of trying to search for "That guy...who had a hat...and who said...stuff. What was his name?"
Well, I didn't say anything about getting movies online legally.
It seems like the whole point of this though. People don't know that you can go to a movie theater to watch currently playing mainstream movies? The only reason I'd download a movie illegally from the internet is because it's an indi which can't be seen in my area, or a mainstream one when I don't want to go to the horrible theaters around here. Doing a search for them will basically just amount to them saying "You don't want to watch it via option A? Well, we'll sell it to you via option A instead of option A! You're welcome!"
Even though the articles have been kept out of refereed medical journals
That raises a red flag with me. How are they not getting into at least some lower level journals? I've seen experimental studies that were controversial, somewhat badly designed, or both make it into even fairly prestigious ones let alone the bottom barrel. Usually when I see someone complaining about being forced out of journals it comes down to their papers being just terrible in design and style.
That actually is good to know. The api changes are the main reason I'd be hesitant to buy any book related to django at the moment. I might actually pick this one up now.
I'll agree on that one. A kid taking twelve years of science classes, and yet not being able to read or critique an experiment in science journals is terrible. But when they graduate not even knowing what a journal is, or how to create an experiment, that's just broken beyond imagining.
I agree on some points, but you had a bit too much handwaving to pretend issues he brought up don't exist. Limited space is solved by making a nice playlist?
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People on slashdot do probably tend to a social group not overly concerned with most sports. But I have to say that I've had the same experience in terms of apathy. I literally know nobody, young or old, who actually cares about the olympics. Nationalism + watching sports instead of participating = not interesting for anyone I know.
I've been following this kind of thing for some time. Don't worry, there's no shortage of scientists that no matter their belief, are adamant in wanting to think that there's something magic about the human mind.
I've been forbidden to carry a camera somewhere once in my life. They also had a policy of forbidding cellphones of people who claimed it had no camera, under the assumption that all phones have cameras.
The look of the roku box seems a minor gripe. It's 'very' small, and can just be tossed behind the tv if you want given that there's no need to ever touch anything on it again once it's plugged in.
They work in the same sense that a placebo works.
It's the medical angle for the sick and injured which makes me support and idea like this as well. As you say, there's just not a huge amount of either funding or public interest in things like prosthetics. It's good, in my opinion, compared to what it might be. But good is miles away from the amount of attention it should be getting. If even a fraction of the people into football suddenly started putting support into that, I think we could make some pretty huge leaps for the public good.
To be fair, you kind of have to play the game to get funding at times. At least "It'll save the lives of our troops!" wasn't on there.
I think that one of the biggest problems is that children are seldom exposed to actual science. Their classes instead come down to memorizing scientific findings, devoid of the process behind it. That's like having someone memorize "2 + 2 = 4" without any understanding of what numbers are or the ability to know that "2 + 3 = 5". When kids are raised to be scientifically illiterate, I don't find it at all surprising that they have little interest in the subject.
We're still waiting for all those people who said they were moving to Canada if Bush won in 2004 to make good though
You've been keeping up with a statistically relevent amount of them to know one way or the other?
Thank you. The expression of technophobia might differ among generic poloitical orientation. But it's the actual ignorance and fear of science and new technology that's the problem, not the politics.
The far left and right? Isn't telling people how to live their lives the point of every government that's ever created a law?
I had the same experience in Montana. It was so unusual for someone to do so that I received comments pretty quickly at the grocery store about how little meat I bought.
I hate the implication that geeks don't work out. I'm in far better shape than any of the sports nuts I know. We're geeks, we like crunching numbers and living by a set schedule. We excel in the very things that makes it hard for most people to stay in shape.
Flying has gone from a pleasure to something I dread for this reason. I've been having horrible luck with that recently. The past three trips I've been next to an overweight person, to the point of getting scrunched into the wall. I'm not saying I need space enough for laptop use, but it's just ridiculous when I don't even have the space to reach under the seat to grab a paperback. There's really nobody to blame, but it really is annoying.
Creationists and ID people have never needed time to come up with ways to bury their heads in the sand. The people who subscribe to it never go to outside sources again to see if the party line has been refuted so even outright lies are usually good enough. Look at the recent thing with bacterial evolution, when frozen samples were right there and the creationists in general just decided to ignore that fact.
Do you really need the exploration part if the goal is a colonization though? It seems like if the main benefit of human exploration is a sideproduct of it, testing humans in space, than it'd be cheaper and more efficient to just directly test humans in space and methods for creating artificial environments here on earth.
The bible can mean anything someone in power wants it to. Even if it outright said "Hey, this is a planet called earth, it's the only place there's life." it'd be labeled a metaphor the second life was found somewhere else.
The point of nations is that you and I are considered property by other people, no matter what kind of pleasant label they put on it.
And people don't get that this is happening, constantly, at every level. Even the local government in most places is absolutely ridiculous in terms of passing pointless laws.
Recording everything that happens to you is easy, that techs been around for ages now. What I'm interested in, and what was only given glancing mention, is how it's actually searched through and retrieved. Most people get annoyed with me if I take two minutes to search through my email for something, and that's just a plain text search. I can't even imagine the problems of trying to search for "That guy...who had a hat...and who said...stuff. What was his name?"
Well, I didn't say anything about getting movies online legally.
It seems like the whole point of this though. People don't know that you can go to a movie theater to watch currently playing mainstream movies? The only reason I'd download a movie illegally from the internet is because it's an indi which can't be seen in my area, or a mainstream one when I don't want to go to the horrible theaters around here. Doing a search for them will basically just amount to them saying "You don't want to watch it via option A? Well, we'll sell it to you via option A instead of option A! You're welcome!"
Even though the articles have been kept out of refereed medical journals
That raises a red flag with me. How are they not getting into at least some lower level journals? I've seen experimental studies that were controversial, somewhat badly designed, or both make it into even fairly prestigious ones let alone the bottom barrel. Usually when I see someone complaining about being forced out of journals it comes down to their papers being just terrible in design and style.
That actually is good to know. The api changes are the main reason I'd be hesitant to buy any book related to django at the moment. I might actually pick this one up now.
Schools are not uneven, they're horrific.
I'll agree on that one. A kid taking twelve years of science classes, and yet not being able to read or critique an experiment in science journals is terrible. But when they graduate not even knowing what a journal is, or how to create an experiment, that's just broken beyond imagining.
I agree on some points, but you had a bit too much handwaving to pretend issues he brought up don't exist. Limited space is solved by making a nice playlist?