First, you've just pointed out that a large population of foreigners travel here for their higher education. You've just supported my statement that we do have some of the best institutions in the world.
Further, none of your statistics suggest anything about the intelligence of US citizens. Your information indicates that our universities are world renowned, and that smart people from around the world come here to work. This has been true since the dawn of our country, and we're generally proud of that.
All of your quoted material supports exactly what I've already said, and supports none of your own. In short, you've just shot yourself in the foot.
Here you're "allowed to state" nearly anything you want. It doesn't mean that you're right.
Contrary to your anecdotal sampling on a popular, largely unrestricted, predominantly American forum (most of your sample set of responders are probably Americans), a little cursory research on the topic would have shown you that the population of the United States, on average, is not what anyone would call "stupid".
Of course we're not as good as we should be, and should definitely do better, but it's a really f'ing big nation, with an unfortunately wide range of educational systems and individual institutions that vary between very bad and best in the world.
See, that's why we Europeans, call you Americans stupid.
Wow, confirmation bias in overdrive.
So you used the comment of one person on/. as confirmation that Americans are stupid? That's not very bright either. Should I assume all Europeans are stupid whenever you spout off something totally asinine? Doesn't seem reasonable, does it?
So you've gotten to your point, and we get it... you hate Americans and you wish we cared. You can ease off now.
A good point, but probably because this is an awesome, high profile car that you probably wouldn't expect this particular feature in.
News about soccer-mom vans may be more relevant to our miserable everyday lives, but it's nice to dream about our "some day" vehicles getting more toys.:)
I'm inclined to believe that the direct quotes from Schmidt are accurate, in which he states quite clearly that they think it's hunky-dory to prioritize by type of traffic, but not by source.
So in Googles view, you shouldn't be allowed to prioritize Vimeo over Youtube, but you SHOULD be able to throttle torrent traffic down and prioritize YouTube videos. This is very bad news.
Fuck Google. They were our champions, and they stabbed us in the back.
Even worse, the sites linked look JUST LIKE OUR airline and government sites. Compare the first with American Airlines site. The same. In fact, the layouts are nearly identical on these versus US equivalents. Maybe it's because most of us don't read Japanese that it looks more confusing... but if you ignore that, the sites look THE SAME.
There's truth to this, but there's a trick to it. A switch to OpenOffice is pretty much always a poor suggestion unless you work for a small mechanic shop or something. Any business workstation user would insist that it just isn't as good as MS Office. Of course plenty people here would disagree, but getting down to long-winded techie arguments is ultimately irrelevant to what users would think. Workplace opinions count. A lot.
I have had good luck recommending various free (and some OSS) solutions though. It's just all about picking your battles wisely. Many of the free Google apps go over well. Well polished little apps like Paint.Net go over well. Linux systems for server functions are often an easy sell because they don't have to see anything weird. There are a number of apps that you can get acceptance for if you present them properly and choose wisely.
You just can't go straight for the heart and take their MS Office 2010 + Outlook and Exchange. That's a recipe for disaster.
I doubt they'd have you sleep in the bunks on the uboat... but temperature isn't really an issue. The entire sub is inside a giant enclosure now and it doesn't get to be 100 degrees when it's hot out.
The coolest part of this is that they say you'll have access to the normally off-limits stores of stuff, and presumably they'll have people live in the Green (like, ecologically neutral) house there. It's pretty pimp.
So get your head out of your fat Western ass and start paying attention.
While you make excellent points in your rebuke, this bit was both unnecessary and unfair. The vast majority of time, money, research and political effort spent on the subject of global climate change comes from those western nations you seem to dislike so much.
If you blind a tank crewman whose head is exposed by painting the tank with a laser designator in order to shoot the tank that's bonus points.
Fixed that for ya.
On a more serious note, this sounds vaguely like the "target the infrastructure" arrangement. So if you shoot at someones cellphone, while they're using it, that's collateral damage from destroying their communications systems and not an unwarranted kill.
"award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (worth $100,000)" and With these funds, Ozcan plans on starting case studies in Africa to see how the microscope can help revolutionize global medicine.
Not that you're one of them, but this is precisely where some tinfoil hat wearer comes out of the woodwork to remind us that the Gates Foundation only awards money with strings attached to boost the profits of med tech companies that they invest in. Nevermind that Ozcan gets to decide how he uses this, and ignore the countless millions gifted to libraries and art museums.
I don't know, it seems to me like many people have clearly thought they should be entitled to life and liberty, at least. Do we not have rules against murder throughout history? I'd just guess that greed has a long history of f'ing things up for everyone.
Either way, I think it's easier to say these ideas are easily arrived at through reason, and have clear exceptions. For example your pursuit of happiness shouldn't be more important than my life, and if you violate it we might suspend your right to liberty.
Anyway, we can wax philosophical but most of us agree that they're a good idea and the Declaration suggests that government is created by, and derives it power from, "the governed". Obviously it comes from the (perhaps overblown) notion that their previous government didn't answer to the people it governed. It suggests that government should respect our "unalienable rights" and act such that we can best pursue "Safety and Happiness".
And it seems to me like a good context with which to kick off a new, independent state... even today.
Oddly I read it just like that without the context. Perhaps it's because the idea of a "collective society [...] where everyone would be interdependent" always kind of bothered me. Not in some "omg the socialists" kind of way, but in a helpless cattle kind of way where nobody can (or cares to) fix their own leaky faucets. Obviously I still make use of doctors, the electricity in my home, basic sanitation services, etc. You can only take it so far without serious compromises.;)
I was never really worried about anyone doing this to my voicemail (both unlikely, and nothing interesting to hear), so I used to have my asterisk system at home use my cellphone number for caller id when calling the att vm number. Presto, straight to cell vm from living room phone. Handy, but totally insecure. You can set a pin if you like though.
I take it back, it's a fun little trick to acquire a minuscule amount of data, but it sounds like they're still using the appropriate technology to monitor the air quality...
Biomonitoring, or the use of living organisms to test environmental health, does not replace traditional monitoring, said Martin Bunkowski, an environmental engineer for the Association of German Airports. But "it's a very clear message for the public because it is easy to understand," he added.
This was my thought. I'm all for creative and interesting solutions to problems, but I'd have to conclude that they're not actually that concerned about the air quality around the airport. I work in a place where we monitor the air from various sensors placed throughout the facility, all the time, and this is at a small commercial establishment where we operate relatively tiny, gas-powered engines.
Kudos to them for the fun little trick to acquire a minuscule amount of data though.
I wouldn't ever brick someones router, especially since they'd just go get a new one and we'd be back where we started. What I have occasionally done is survey from a friends living room, then connect to all the open and default pw'd ap's around their house and adjust what channels everyone is on. I mostly consider it a service to the neighborhood, but no, I do not go over to the neighbors houses and survey again to find out if they don't have a more distant neighbor that they're now banging heads with.
I kinda hate consumer wifi. I sometimes wish there were something governing its use that prevented there from being 300 routers for 300 tenants in one apartment building. It's especially nasty that AT&T rolls out their ewire devices everywhere for home dsl and doesn't care about their configuration other than to lock them down.
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For all we know the student plugged in the LAN side.
The network should have prevented this anyway.
Did you even read what you just posted?
First, you've just pointed out that a large population of foreigners travel here for their higher education. You've just supported my statement that we do have some of the best institutions in the world.
Further, none of your statistics suggest anything about the intelligence of US citizens. Your information indicates that our universities are world renowned, and that smart people from around the world come here to work. This has been true since the dawn of our country, and we're generally proud of that.
All of your quoted material supports exactly what I've already said, and supports none of your own. In short, you've just shot yourself in the foot.
Here you're "allowed to state" nearly anything you want. It doesn't mean that you're right.
Contrary to your anecdotal sampling on a popular, largely unrestricted, predominantly American forum (most of your sample set of responders are probably Americans), a little cursory research on the topic would have shown you that the population of the United States, on average, is not what anyone would call "stupid".
Of course we're not as good as we should be, and should definitely do better, but it's a really f'ing big nation, with an unfortunately wide range of educational systems and individual institutions that vary between very bad and best in the world.
See, that's why we Europeans, call you Americans stupid.
Wow, confirmation bias in overdrive.
So you used the comment of one person on /. as confirmation that Americans are stupid? That's not very bright either. Should I assume all Europeans are stupid whenever you spout off something totally asinine? Doesn't seem reasonable, does it?
So you've gotten to your point, and we get it... you hate Americans and you wish we cared. You can ease off now.
O'Reily uses the image of a gypsy looking into a crystal ball on the cover of an Oracle book? TACKY!
A good point, but probably because this is an awesome, high profile car that you probably wouldn't expect this particular feature in.
News about soccer-mom vans may be more relevant to our miserable everyday lives, but it's nice to dream about our "some day" vehicles getting more toys. :)
I'm inclined to believe that the direct quotes from Schmidt are accurate, in which he states quite clearly that they think it's hunky-dory to prioritize by type of traffic, but not by source.
So in Googles view, you shouldn't be allowed to prioritize Vimeo over Youtube, but you SHOULD be able to throttle torrent traffic down and prioritize YouTube videos. This is very bad news.
Fuck Google. They were our champions, and they stabbed us in the back.
Which is funny. It operates like this to protect everyones privacy.
Fuck me.
Preonpism. Humor fail.
They call that Prionpism?
Even worse, the sites linked look JUST LIKE OUR airline and government sites. Compare the first with American Airlines site. The same. In fact, the layouts are nearly identical on these versus US equivalents. Maybe it's because most of us don't read Japanese that it looks more confusing... but if you ignore that, the sites look THE SAME.
There's truth to this, but there's a trick to it. A switch to OpenOffice is pretty much always a poor suggestion unless you work for a small mechanic shop or something. Any business workstation user would insist that it just isn't as good as MS Office. Of course plenty people here would disagree, but getting down to long-winded techie arguments is ultimately irrelevant to what users would think. Workplace opinions count. A lot.
I have had good luck recommending various free (and some OSS) solutions though. It's just all about picking your battles wisely. Many of the free Google apps go over well. Well polished little apps like Paint.Net go over well. Linux systems for server functions are often an easy sell because they don't have to see anything weird. There are a number of apps that you can get acceptance for if you present them properly and choose wisely.
You just can't go straight for the heart and take their MS Office 2010 + Outlook and Exchange. That's a recipe for disaster.
I doubt they'd have you sleep in the bunks on the uboat... but temperature isn't really an issue. The entire sub is inside a giant enclosure now and it doesn't get to be 100 degrees when it's hot out.
The coolest part of this is that they say you'll have access to the normally off-limits stores of stuff, and presumably they'll have people live in the Green (like, ecologically neutral) house there. It's pretty pimp.
http://chicagoist.com/2008/05/07/green_can_be_go.php
So get your head out of your fat Western ass and start paying attention.
While you make excellent points in your rebuke, this bit was both unnecessary and unfair. The vast majority of time, money, research and political effort spent on the subject of global climate change comes from those western nations you seem to dislike so much.
If you blind a tank crewman whose head is exposed by painting the tank with a laser designator in order to shoot the tank that's bonus points.
Fixed that for ya.
On a more serious note, this sounds vaguely like the "target the infrastructure" arrangement. So if you shoot at someones cellphone, while they're using it, that's collateral damage from destroying their communications systems and not an unwarranted kill.
I wouldn't say one instrument is more or less legitimate, and it seems obvious to me that it's all music to the right listener.
However I do think it's fair to say that mastery of a violin requires far more practice and talent than banging out violin-esque sounds on a keyboard.
Yeah great.
"award from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (worth $100,000)" and With these funds, Ozcan plans on starting case studies in Africa to see how the microscope can help revolutionize global medicine.
Not that you're one of them, but this is precisely where some tinfoil hat wearer comes out of the woodwork to remind us that the Gates Foundation only awards money with strings attached to boost the profits of med tech companies that they invest in. Nevermind that Ozcan gets to decide how he uses this, and ignore the countless millions gifted to libraries and art museums.
I don't know, it seems to me like many people have clearly thought they should be entitled to life and liberty, at least. Do we not have rules against murder throughout history? I'd just guess that greed has a long history of f'ing things up for everyone.
Either way, I think it's easier to say these ideas are easily arrived at through reason, and have clear exceptions. For example your pursuit of happiness shouldn't be more important than my life, and if you violate it we might suspend your right to liberty.
Anyway, we can wax philosophical but most of us agree that they're a good idea and the Declaration suggests that government is created by, and derives it power from, "the governed". Obviously it comes from the (perhaps overblown) notion that their previous government didn't answer to the people it governed. It suggests that government should respect our "unalienable rights" and act such that we can best pursue "Safety and Happiness".
And it seems to me like a good context with which to kick off a new, independent state... even today.
Oddly I read it just like that without the context. Perhaps it's because the idea of a "collective society [...] where everyone would be interdependent" always kind of bothered me. Not in some "omg the socialists" kind of way, but in a helpless cattle kind of way where nobody can (or cares to) fix their own leaky faucets. Obviously I still make use of doctors, the electricity in my home, basic sanitation services, etc. You can only take it so far without serious compromises. ;)
But F* Ann Coulter anyways.
Likewise waiting on more android offerings, though I was surprised to see nearly 20% of the people surveyed have linux machines.
I was never really worried about anyone doing this to my voicemail (both unlikely, and nothing interesting to hear), so I used to have my asterisk system at home use my cellphone number for caller id when calling the att vm number. Presto, straight to cell vm from living room phone. Handy, but totally insecure. You can set a pin if you like though.
I take it back, it's a fun little trick to acquire a minuscule amount of data, but it sounds like they're still using the appropriate technology to monitor the air quality...
Biomonitoring, or the use of living organisms to test environmental health, does not replace traditional monitoring, said Martin Bunkowski, an environmental engineer for the Association of German Airports. But "it's a very clear message for the public because it is easy to understand," he added.
This was my thought. I'm all for creative and interesting solutions to problems, but I'd have to conclude that they're not actually that concerned about the air quality around the airport. I work in a place where we monitor the air from various sensors placed throughout the facility, all the time, and this is at a small commercial establishment where we operate relatively tiny, gas-powered engines.
Kudos to them for the fun little trick to acquire a minuscule amount of data though.
I wouldn't ever brick someones router, especially since they'd just go get a new one and we'd be back where we started. What I have occasionally done is survey from a friends living room, then connect to all the open and default pw'd ap's around their house and adjust what channels everyone is on. I mostly consider it a service to the neighborhood, but no, I do not go over to the neighbors houses and survey again to find out if they don't have a more distant neighbor that they're now banging heads with.
I kinda hate consumer wifi. I sometimes wish there were something governing its use that prevented there from being 300 routers for 300 tenants in one apartment building. It's especially nasty that AT&T rolls out their ewire devices everywhere for home dsl and doesn't care about their configuration other than to lock them down.
Yeah but who knew there were still people living in Detroit?