People will say it's a good idea so Google can hold onto AOL's subscriber base, but realistically if AOL aligned with microsoft, people would just leave AOL's sinking ship even faster than they already are.
Bottom line: Google can find a better way to spend that money.
I guess the way I saw it was that the people doing the shooting were the network administrators. The logical parallel is that the network admins/shooters are indiscriminately punishing those who happen to be associated through no fault of thier own with those who are committing crimes. I think the main point of deacon's analogy is that it's unfair to respond in a way that harms the innocent bystanders.
The "who has been shot" are the innocent bystanders--those people who are harmed by being put on a blacklist for something that someone else has done.
Many analogies illustrate their point through exaggeration. To me at least, it's obvious that deacon is not equating the moral weight of having one's email blacklisted with that of being machine gunned.
The definition of analogy according to wikipedia:
"An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. Analogies are often used to explain new or complex concepts by showing the similarity between something familiar and something else."
When you say "no worthwhile analogy could involve the blacklist-users using any form of violence against the blacklisted," you are wrong because it is the logically *similar* aspects of the analogy that are relevent. As deacon obviously was not making a point about the severity of the damage being done, the fact that he chose violence to illustrate this point is inconsequential. Any negative thing being done to the aformentioned innocent bystanders, violence included, illustrates the point that deacon was trying to make.
God I wish I was alive in the 60's. Not having experienced LSD due to the dismal quality today (plus the law doesn't help), what I would give to live in a world with legal quad-filtered acid...
Are you retarded? It's an analogy. It's not supposed to be factually similar. It's supposed to be logically similar so as to illustrate a point. Deacon's analogy/em is correct.
Of course it's a good thing. LSD-25 expands your horizons and breaks down pre-existing thought structures, which makes one more creative and generally smarter, provided that one uses a reasonable amount of moderation. Since you think it's a bad thing, it's obvious you don't know anything about it. I suggest you go educate yourself: http://erowid.org/
Oh shit, did I say texus holdum? I meant omahah, which is more of a niche game.
Reasons why I don't think it's BS-
1.) My friend is a math major at MIT--he knows what he's talking about.
2.) He's not the kind of person who would just make something up.
3.) Many players at the $10 omahah tables at partypoker are newbs.
4.) People don't have time to catch on to your strategy because you're constantly moving to new tables.
5.) Omahah is a simple game--a patient and methodical stategy *will* win, even if it's robotic.
My bad about saying it was "holdum" though, that was a mistake. I doubt a similar strategy would work for holdum as it's (afaik) a more complicated game.
A friend of mine at MIT already found a simple mathmatical algorithm for winning at Texus holdum in partypoker.com. I'm not sure if he's using it because I haven't talked to him in a long time, but apparently the people at the $10 tables suck enough that you can just play very conservatively without altering your style of play at all and win.
Try Ubuntu. It'll win. (The other distros will still exist, but this and redhat--maybe suse--will be far and away the leaders. Debian will probably be the leader for servers as Ubuntu will end up helping it out alot, what with it being built on Debian and all...)
I agree. It's really annoying to listen to all these people whining "oh no, not a flamewar! that will ruin everything!" How does people getting emotionally involved in their projects hurt open source projects? If it were me, I would only be inspired to do a better job if someone criticized my code. Besides, high profile flamewars are entertaining--they're sort of like watching gladiators duke it out in the colleseum back in the good old days:-).
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People will say it's a good idea so Google can hold onto AOL's subscriber base, but realistically if AOL aligned with microsoft, people would just leave AOL's sinking ship even faster than they already are.
Bottom line: Google can find a better way to spend that money.
Seriously. Das Keyboard is retarded.
agreed--this article reeks of PR...
You don't need to extract heat to extract energy... check out Focus Fusion.
Focus Fusion tries an alternative approach...
ROFL. Damn. I tried to mod you up, but you're already at +5. I think that's the funniest /. post I've ever seen.
Ubuntu rocks.
I guess the way I saw it was that the people doing the shooting were the network administrators. The logical parallel is that the network admins/shooters are indiscriminately punishing those who happen to be associated through no fault of thier own with those who are committing crimes. I think the main point of deacon's analogy is that it's unfair to respond in a way that harms the innocent bystanders.
The "who has been shot" are the innocent bystanders--those people who are harmed by being put on a blacklist for something that someone else has done.
Many analogies illustrate their point through exaggeration. To me at least, it's obvious that deacon is not equating the moral weight of having one's email blacklisted with that of being machine gunned.
The definition of analogy according to wikipedia:
"An analogy is a comparison between two different things, in order to highlight some form of similarity. Analogies are often used to explain new or complex concepts by showing the similarity between something familiar and something else."
When you say "no worthwhile analogy could involve the blacklist-users using any form of violence against the blacklisted," you are wrong because it is the logically *similar* aspects of the analogy that are relevent. As deacon obviously was not making a point about the severity of the damage being done, the fact that he chose violence to illustrate this point is inconsequential. Any negative thing being done to the aformentioned innocent bystanders, violence included, illustrates the point that deacon was trying to make.
God I wish I was alive in the 60's. Not having experienced LSD due to the dismal quality today (plus the law doesn't help), what I would give to live in a world with legal quad-filtered acid...
Heh. It's true. I'd mod you up if I had the points :-).
"Excuse me, but who's been shot?
No one?
Then your analogy is not accurate."
Are you retarded? It's an analogy. It's not supposed to be factually similar. It's supposed to be logically similar so as to illustrate a point. Deacon's analogy/em is correct.
FYI, mime is spelled meme
Of course it's a good thing. LSD-25 expands your horizons and breaks down pre-existing thought structures, which makes one more creative and generally smarter, provided that one uses a reasonable amount of moderation. Since you think it's a bad thing, it's obvious you don't know anything about it. I suggest you go educate yourself: http://erowid.org/
Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how he described it. He even used the words "the nuts". Poker terminology is weird...
Oh shit, did I say texus holdum? I meant omahah, which is more of a niche game. Reasons why I don't think it's BS- 1.) My friend is a math major at MIT--he knows what he's talking about. 2.) He's not the kind of person who would just make something up. 3.) Many players at the $10 omahah tables at partypoker are newbs. 4.) People don't have time to catch on to your strategy because you're constantly moving to new tables. 5.) Omahah is a simple game--a patient and methodical stategy *will* win, even if it's robotic. My bad about saying it was "holdum" though, that was a mistake. I doubt a similar strategy would work for holdum as it's (afaik) a more complicated game.
How is this flamebait??? It's true.
A friend of mine at MIT already found a simple mathmatical algorithm for winning at Texus holdum in partypoker.com. I'm not sure if he's using it because I haven't talked to him in a long time, but apparently the people at the $10 tables suck enough that you can just play very conservatively without altering your style of play at all and win.
Maybe you should try the best version of desktop linux available (ie ubuntu)... I used to use fedora, but it sucks compared to ubuntu.
But 99% of Americans are stupid.
Try Ubuntu. It'll win. (The other distros will still exist, but this and redhat--maybe suse--will be far and away the leaders. Debian will probably be the leader for servers as Ubuntu will end up helping it out alot, what with it being built on Debian and all...)
...never heard about AJAX before... ...seriouly, at this point, how is this newsworthy?
People--the next wave of evolution is memetic in nature. It's happening at a blinding speed.
I agree. It's really annoying to listen to all these people whining "oh no, not a flamewar! that will ruin everything!" How does people getting emotionally involved in their projects hurt open source projects? If it were me, I would only be inspired to do a better job if someone criticized my code. Besides, high profile flamewars are entertaining--they're sort of like watching gladiators duke it out in the colleseum back in the good old days :-).
Truthfully, a search for "Tiger" should point to Apple's OS because that's what most people are looking for. I think you're thinking of wikipedia.