Certainly one of the sickest parts of the joke is "States' Rights." It's absolutely batshit crazy to have something be legal for your pal a mile away (next state over) which would throw you in jail in your state. Drug use, marriage age, sexual positions or partners are obvious examples. Or slavery, of course, if you go back a couple years. The sad fact is that we're nowhere near being "One country," (under $DEITY or not). Only a heavily duck-taped illusion of a Federal gov't is keeping the US from becoming a dozen or so separate republics with radically different ideas about everything from gun ownership to religious rights.
My favorite way to explain the difference between something "happening" FTL and useful information not being able to travel FTL is this:
Imagine you've got a powerful laser aimed at a wall a few light-years away. You then sweep the laser beam along the wall's length. The illuminated area changes at several times the speed of light. But this is not information transfer, because each photon travelled a few years in a straigh(ish) line and hit the wall based on the angle of the laser at the time of emission. We "see" a moving spot, but what we're actually seeing is a progression of non-FTL arrivals. The photons carry information, but whatever knowledge is imparted at the point where the wall is illuminated is not transferred to any subsequently illuminated location.
Well, auto racing used to be in part about building better cars. Until the turbine came along. Now, turbines and 4-wheel drive are banned at the Indy 500.
That's utter nonsense. You might as well bitch that IndyCars aren't allowed in NASCAR races. Or that sticks with more than 1.5" curve depth aren't allowed in the NHL. Or that metal bats aren't allowed in MLB. Or double-strung rackets in tennis.
Every sport has rules and limits, often for safety if nothing else. If you don't think race teams have teams of engineers trying to make the car a teensy bit faster and a teensy bit better at holding speed in corners while staying within the design rules, time to think again.
Back to human doping: I won't disagree that there's a fine line between PEDs and legal stuff like high-protein diets and a few cans of RedBull. And for that matter, the kind of diet (both type and quantity) that NFL players eat does in fact have ramifications for their long-term health. I think the difference is (supposed to be) that banned doping substances are radically dangerous even in the levels in use, let alone overdosing.
Well, I guess now we know how Superman's X-ray vision works. I remember at least a couple occasions where he stops reading a book thru a wall (or some such) because, in his own explanation, continued use of his X-ray power could overheat the book and set it on fire.
However that doesn't fly in other fields. You can't just say "shit well they died so lets try again with version 2.1 beta and see if it kills fewer people." Well actually I guess you CAN say that.
That's exactly how it goes, and there's no other option. You could do nothing, and guess what the death rate wouldn't change. Or you could do something which directly addresses the root cause of the problem, and see if the death rate decreases. In all the cases I know of - checklists for pilots, drug dosage level changes, etc. -- by the time the new protocol is released for use on humans it's pretty much guaranteed not to make things worse.
Other replies have already shown why this approach is guaranteed to fail.
I'll just drop in to suggest that perhaps a little more curriculum content and stricter grading standards might lead some students to reduce their partying so as to pass, and other students to drop out early on, since they really didn't belong in college in teh first place.
WHich is to say,... or management could piss off and stop telling the huge majority of employees who don't hang on their phone all day how to live their lives.
If you have an employee who's goofing off or is otherwise incapable of ignoring his toys (you know, like posting rants to/. while compiling), then he needs some interaction with his supervisor. Banning everyone's access to their personal phones is just another of those "Zero-tolerance Policy" CFs that will never work.
On my part -- as I read the summary line about the site currently being full of porn ads, I noticed the number of comments on this article had reached.... 69 .
If Google had designed (? or something?) Android so that updating the base OS was something that could be pushed direct from Google instead of from each manufacturer's bollixed version of the system, there'd be no problem for any of us. Seeing as how Google{sheets, +, play, docs,} and other default apps get updated just fine, why not the OS as well -- without any interaction with the phone vendors?
Every once in a while I get told to run something under cmd.exe or PowerShell, and am reminded how incredibly limited these apps are when compared with any *nix *sh terminal app. Why does anyone think Linux users would take PowerShell over bash?
What you propose would be superannoying, namely having to take an extra step to go to the downloads folder and then run the file. At that point the OS doesn't even know that it was a file just downloaded from the internet which would make showing a warning dialog at that point even more annoying as it would have to do so for every executable, always.
The OSs I'm familiar with can in many cases retain a "this was downloaded" tag of some sort. Certainly there's a warning message in OSX the first time you run a new app; I dunno how WIndows7 tags files downloaded from some places (Sharepoint) but not others (Outlook), but I do get warnings about "This Word document came from THE INTERNET [wtf that means]..." .
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You don't know how lucky you are boys, back in the USSR!
[snip]American democracy is a sick joke
Certainly one of the sickest parts of the joke is "States' Rights." It's absolutely batshit crazy to have something be legal for your pal a mile away (next state over) which would throw you in jail in your state. Drug use, marriage age, sexual positions or partners are obvious examples. Or slavery, of course, if you go back a couple years.
The sad fact is that we're nowhere near being "One country," (under $DEITY or not). Only a heavily duck-taped illusion of a Federal gov't is keeping the US from becoming a dozen or so separate republics with radically different ideas about everything from gun ownership to religious rights.
My favorite way to explain the difference between something "happening" FTL and useful information not being able to travel FTL is this:
Imagine you've got a powerful laser aimed at a wall a few light-years away. You then sweep the laser beam along the wall's length. The illuminated area changes at several times the speed of light. But this is not information transfer, because each photon travelled a few years in a straigh(ish) line and hit the wall based on the angle of the laser at the time of emission. We "see" a moving spot, but what we're actually seeing is a progression of non-FTL arrivals. The photons carry information, but whatever knowledge is imparted at the point where the wall is illuminated is not transferred to any subsequently illuminated location.
You win the Whooshed Of The Month award for that one.
Turns out someone's been fixing blurred lines for a while now
Well, auto racing used to be in part about building better cars. Until the turbine came along. Now, turbines and 4-wheel drive are banned at the Indy 500.
That's utter nonsense. You might as well bitch that IndyCars aren't allowed in NASCAR races. Or that sticks with more than 1.5" curve depth aren't allowed in the NHL. Or that metal bats aren't allowed in MLB. Or double-strung rackets in tennis.
Every sport has rules and limits, often for safety if nothing else. If you don't think race teams have teams of engineers trying to make the car a teensy bit faster and a teensy bit better at holding speed in corners while staying within the design rules, time to think again.
Back to human doping: I won't disagree that there's a fine line between PEDs and legal stuff like high-protein diets and a few cans of RedBull. And for that matter, the kind of diet (both type and quantity) that NFL players eat does in fact have ramifications for their long-term health. I think the difference is (supposed to be) that banned doping substances are radically dangerous even in the levels in use, let alone overdosing.
Well, I guess now we know how Superman's X-ray vision works. I remember at least a couple occasions where he stops reading a book thru a wall (or some such) because, in his own explanation, continued use of his X-ray power could overheat the book and set it on fire.
Does make you wonder whether Empedocles and Plato were from Krypton.
However that doesn't fly in other fields. You can't just say "shit well they died so lets try again with version 2.1 beta and see if it kills fewer people." Well actually I guess you CAN say that.
That's exactly how it goes, and there's no other option. You could do nothing, and guess what the death rate wouldn't change. Or you could do something which directly addresses the root cause of the problem, and see if the death rate decreases. In all the cases I know of - checklists for pilots, drug dosage level changes, etc. -- by the time the new protocol is released for use on humans it's pretty much guaranteed not to make things worse.
Baloney. It's lots bigger then a credit card!
Hey, size isn't everything (you insensitive clod)!
There's also no static with streaming and apps.
Yeah, well, radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV3zWSawJiw
If you haven't seen the counterargument, here you go.
Other replies have already shown why this approach is guaranteed to fail.
I'll just drop in to suggest that perhaps a little more curriculum content and stricter grading standards might lead some students to reduce their partying so as to pass, and other students to drop out early on, since they really didn't belong in college in teh first place.
You may "use" tabs, but plenty of editors are set to translate the tab into N spaces.
Worse, plenty of editors import text documents and **change** the tabs to N spaces whether you wanted to or not.
Usually this results in a totally garbled python script.
Easy: because it's true. Just because they don't admit to being racist doesn't mean they aren't racist.
WHich is to say, ... or management could piss off and stop telling the huge majority of employees who don't hang on their phone all day how to live their lives.
If you have an employee who's goofing off or is otherwise incapable of ignoring his toys (you know, like posting rants to /. while compiling), then he needs some interaction with his supervisor. Banning everyone's access to their personal phones is just another of those "Zero-tolerance Policy" CFs that will never work.
On my part -- as I read the summary line about the site currently being full of porn ads, I noticed the number of comments on this article had reached .... 69 .
How 'bout that, eh?
No ads at all on any day ending with the letter F!
In what language?
And of course I forgot that /. still eats characters like crazy.
try again:
if (number_of_posts_per_day > 3)
then depression = yes
Leading to ASCII-art code:
if ( instagram_user 3 friends)
then depression = no
Double entendre intended.
If Google had designed (? or something?) Android so that updating the base OS was something that could be pushed direct from Google instead of from each manufacturer's bollixed version of the system, there'd be no problem for any of us. Seeing as how Google{sheets, +, play, docs,} and other default apps get updated just fine, why not the OS as well -- without any interaction with the phone vendors?
I felt a great disturbance in the Network, as though 1.4 billion OSes were crying out in pain.
Good: batteries that won't catch fire.
Bad (but possibly good): batteries outgas lysergic acid during operation.
Every once in a while I get told to run something under cmd.exe or PowerShell, and am reminded how incredibly limited these apps are when compared with any *nix *sh terminal app. Why does anyone think Linux users would take PowerShell over bash?
Google's first hit for GSOH is Girl Scouts of Ohio's Heartland.
How's that for ya?
What you propose would be superannoying, namely having to take an extra step to go to the downloads folder and then run the file. At that point the OS doesn't even know that it was a file just downloaded from the internet which would make showing a warning dialog at that point even more annoying as it would have to do so for every executable, always.
The OSs I'm familiar with can in many cases retain a "this was downloaded" tag of some sort. Certainly there's a warning message in OSX the first time you run a new app; I dunno how WIndows7 tags files downloaded from some places (Sharepoint) but not others (Outlook), but I do get warnings about "This Word document came from THE INTERNET [wtf that means]..." .