Where the hell did this guy leave This Movie? Dali, Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Giger (pre-alien), Orson Wells. This is the greatest S/F film never made.
I disagree. Many people believe that communism is wrong *in theory*. It's not that "in practice" it has been carried out wrongly, but that communism itself has as its very root the causes for tirany, and that is the reason why every communist society ends up the way it does. I refer you among others to Ayn Rand, The Libertarian Party, etc.
Funny. I just got started a month ago on these books, I'm up to 'Sourcery' now (though I read 'Thud' when it came out and that's what got me hooked to go back to the start)
As an agnostic myself, I don't see why the mere mention of God should trigger you to go into attack mode. The man's religion is not the issue.
What got to me was the fact that the guy is using the excuse that he doesn't have time to work out because he is too busy doing God's work...in my mind the words "what kind of God would prefer this" immediately jumped out.
And as for the request to add regulation to restaurants (a heavily regulated industry as it is), it IS socialist. Yes, putting calorie counts on menus *could* help people make the right choices... forcing restaurants to do it is totalitarian pure and simple.
I like the other response comments on this issue, something like this hurts small restaurant owners the most, and in particular healthy fresh food restaurants which change their menus often to accomodate what's fresh today.
I'm an atheist, so I don't understand your statment on many fronts. You mention you have this other 'job' to work 'for God'. Aren't you commiting a sin by taking such poor care of the one body you have. What stupid kind of God you think prefers that you work for him before taking care of yourself?
I'm not saying its easy. I fight a tendency to not excercise and eat too much of the wrong stuff every mom emnt; yet I do it. I have a full time job, volunteer at many organizations and raise 2 kids. Excuses to not do it are a dime a dozen. As I grow older and my metabolism tends to slow I'm much more aware that I want to live forever (or as long as I can) and to do so in a state of relative health: for my kids, but also for myself and for the work I do, so even though I hate every minute of it I try to work out a few times a week... guess what? I have more energy and require less sleep!
The other thing that bothers me greatly about your post, is the usual socialist statement to make government protect you by using force to make someone else responsible: in your case restaurants and caloric counts, guess what? it doesn't work either: you can still pig out on a triple hamburger and triple fries at 2000 calories a meal if you know how much it's in there... and do you really need some little statement on the menu at Claim Jumper to tell you that the 5 pounds of meat and 10 layer chocolate cake are a bit fattening? Why don't you simply *not* go to restaurants that don't give you that information and let them know you want it. Do you have any idea how hard it is to calculate this stuff to the accuracy, consistency and level that most laws would have you? Do you reprint all your menus every time you switch from Brand A (10 calories/serving) to Brand B (11 calories/serving).
I think the car analogy breaks down. Cars are meant for basically one purpose: they are a vehicle to transport people and things, their user interface is mostly the same and you're talking 10 controls or so only, the manual in your glove compartment is more than enough for it, the majority of people don't even need it.
Computers have a virtual infinity of uses, and each program/operating system/computer has slightly different user interface to do what it does. Much more is needed than a glove compartment guide.
Just run your own. C'mon it's not that hard. I run a Cyrus Imap box on an old PIII 500Mhz, add to that Horde as a webmail client for when I don't have my thunderbird box or I'm behind a firewall and I'm set. OK, it costs me $5.00/month for the static IP which makes it more usable.
No, I'll look for it. But I know you can get very far by cheating. I just have to look at our senate, government, white house and most courts (not to mention politicians all over the world).
In response to all of those who are against cheating... I dislike cheating as well, its dishonest. But we must really ask ourselves what kind of educational system we have that makes kids WANT to cheat. Instead of fostering a system in which education is a fun and enjoyable activity we promote one where kids fill a pressure to pass: passing becomes more important than learning. On the one hand I think that honesty is an important value that must be supported, but a part of me says: let them cheat, they'll soon enough encounter the real world and figure out what they really needed to know and what they didn't.
Looking back on my school days, I remember often doing exams "in group", where we'll take a crack at the exams and compare answers, learning how to work with other people under pressure was (I now think) more important than knowing how to figure out complicated integrals alone (and when was the last time I did that). If caught, this kind of thing is considered cheating.
I used to not like school that much, until the point where courses got difficult enough that other students were there because they wanted to; difficult enough that we could bring out calculators and text books in the exams and still spend 8 hours doing them (I distinctly remember some EE Linear Control exams). The teacher would let us take smoking breaks and bring lunch. Copying someone elses exam wasn't an option, because of the pages and pages of calculations we had to show for our efforts.
For my best crib sheets I'd use two toothpicks and a couple of orthodontics rubber bands (you know, the very small ones). I'd then cut a strip of paper (the thinest you can find) to match the toothpick's length, write whatever I needed on it (or printing it with the smallest legible font, once computers were available) and roll it in each of the tootpicks, like little scrolls. They were very easy to take out and use and really hard to see by the teacher. Of course, the act of figuring out what to put in them was all I needed most of the time to study, so I'd rarely had to use them myself. But they were a great side business in high school!
Now-a-days I justify this to myself saying that the kind of class (or professor) that requires this kind of thing (learning by rote memorization) is stupid anyway, and nothing good can come from craming to memorize something you'll forget 10 minutes after the exam. I compare this to a history teacher I had that let us open the textbook on exams, but the questions were really hard and thought provoking.
Sorry, but your comment is wrong. In spanish S, C and Z are different letters representing different sounds, same as B and V. You're probably Mexican (like I am) and are thus used to the Mexican mannerism of making them soundthe same. Try reading your post with a Spain accent and you'll see how bad it sounds.
Overall Spanish is much simpler, though not perfect and still full of exceptions, but overall more verbs are regular and those that aren't deviate in similar ways, and also for the most part spelling is straight-forward: I could never imagine a spelling bee (a spelling competition) happening in Spanish!
Now, if you really want to see a language that's dead simple, learn Esperanto: all verbs are regular, one sound to every letter and one letter to every sound, all words have the accent on the second to last sillable so you don't need the akward diacritical marks.
gawk, I hate that argument... if we only could save money from x we could spend it on y. How about not taking it away from the people who made it in the first place? You know, us taxpayers? There's a change.
Don't both the statutes you mention have the word "knowingly"? If the files were downloaded as part of a queue and never looked at (the example given by parent post) then one doesn't knowingly posses. No?
Right, and we are supposed to believe you. For all we know you are part of "them" and want us to think that the data cannot be recovered when in reality you've poisoned all drives so that they are twice the size we think they are and keep everything backed up for you to see.
Ok, now I'll go back to listening to Art Bell.
Re:Dvorak's so thoroughly debunked
on
Advocating Dvorak
·
· Score: 1
I really have nothing to say, but being passionate about Dvorak means that I have to post *something*, how could I not?
OK, I also speak Esperanto and vote Libertarian.
I doubt skunks have claws, IIRC, they are in the muselidae family (related to otters, minks, ferrets, weasels) and they don't have claws, not like cats do anyway; they have nails.
The nice part is that it only takes one major ISP enabling greylisting to automagically fix those out-of-spec servers. People might not fix their configurations for me, but I'm pretty sure they might respond differently to AOL or Earthlink.
The problem I see is that by your same logic, and assuming that greylisting assumes that spam sending software is not SMTP compliante, it only takes one major ISP enabling greylisting for SPAM boxes to get into the SMTP spec.
Re:Still not right: Feature List
on
Blank Keyboard
·
· Score: 1
Mhh, a few features I like. The middle keys (enter, tab, etc) look interesting, though I suspect they'd be big targets for mystypes. But I'm not sure what you're getting at and your writings intrigue me. Straight keyboards that force you to keep your hands straight are painful, split keyboards (such as MS natural or the Kinesis Maxim that I mentioned) let your hands fall in a much more natural way. No?
Slashdot Mirror
Where the hell did this guy leave This Movie? Dali, Jodorowsky, Pink Floyd, Tangerine Dream, Giger (pre-alien), Orson Wells.
This is the greatest S/F film never made.
It's not Apple ][c, the ][ was reserved for the ][e and below. A lot of people used Apple //c.
I disagree. Many people believe that communism is wrong *in theory*. It's not that "in practice" it has been carried out wrongly, but that communism itself has as its very root the causes for tirany, and that is the reason why every communist society ends up the way it does. I refer you among others to Ayn Rand, The Libertarian Party, etc.
Funny. I just got started a month ago on these books, I'm up to 'Sourcery' now (though I read 'Thud' when it came out and that's what got me hooked to go back to the start)
As an agnostic myself, I don't see why the mere mention of God should trigger you to go into attack mode. The man's religion is not the issue.
What got to me was the fact that the guy is using the excuse that he doesn't have time to work out because he is too busy doing God's work...in my mind the words "what kind of God would prefer this" immediately jumped out.
And as for the request to add regulation to restaurants (a heavily regulated industry as it is), it IS socialist. Yes, putting calorie counts on menus *could* help people make the right choices... forcing restaurants to do it is totalitarian pure and simple.
I like the other response comments on this issue, something like this hurts small restaurant owners the most, and in particular healthy fresh food restaurants which change their menus often to accomodate what's fresh today.
I'm an atheist, so I don't understand your statment on many fronts. You mention you have this other 'job' to work 'for God'. Aren't you commiting a sin by taking such poor care of the one body you have. What stupid kind of God you think prefers that you work for him before taking care of yourself?
I'm not saying its easy. I fight a tendency to not excercise and eat too much of the wrong stuff every mom emnt; yet I do it. I have a full time job, volunteer at many organizations and raise 2 kids. Excuses to not do it are a dime a dozen. As I grow older and my metabolism tends to slow I'm much more aware that I want to live forever (or as long as I can) and to do so in a state of relative health: for my kids, but also for myself and for the work I do, so even though I hate every minute of it I try to work out a few times a week... guess what? I have more energy and require less sleep!
The other thing that bothers me greatly about your post, is the usual socialist statement to make government protect you by using force to make someone else responsible: in your case restaurants and caloric counts, guess what? it doesn't work either: you can still pig out on a triple hamburger and triple fries at 2000 calories a meal if you know how much it's in there... and do you really need some little statement on the menu at Claim Jumper to tell you that the 5 pounds of meat and 10 layer chocolate cake are a bit fattening? Why don't you simply *not* go to restaurants that don't give you that information and let them know you want it. Do you have any idea how hard it is to calculate this stuff to the accuracy, consistency and level that most laws would have you? Do you reprint all your menus every time you switch from Brand A (10 calories/serving) to Brand B (11 calories/serving).
I think the car analogy breaks down. Cars are meant for basically one purpose: they are a vehicle to transport people and things, their user interface is mostly the same and you're talking 10 controls or so only, the manual in your glove compartment is more than enough for it, the majority of people don't even need it. Computers have a virtual infinity of uses, and each program/operating system/computer has slightly different user interface to do what it does. Much more is needed than a glove compartment guide.
I want to be the first one to ask that to The GoogleVac.
Just run your own. C'mon it's not that hard. I run a Cyrus Imap box on an old PIII 500Mhz, add to that Horde as a webmail client for when I don't have my thunderbird box or I'm behind a firewall and I'm set. OK, it costs me $5.00/month for the static IP which makes it more usable.
No, I'll look for it. But I know you can get very far by cheating. I just have to look at our senate, government, white house and most courts (not to mention politicians all over the world).
In response to all of those who are against cheating... I dislike cheating as well, its dishonest. But we must really ask ourselves what kind of educational system we have that makes kids WANT to cheat. Instead of fostering a system in which education is a fun and enjoyable activity we promote one where kids fill a pressure to pass: passing becomes more important than learning. On the one hand I think that honesty is an important value that must be supported, but a part of me says: let them cheat, they'll soon enough encounter the real world and figure out what they really needed to know and what they didn't.
Looking back on my school days, I remember often doing exams "in group", where we'll take a crack at the exams and compare answers, learning how to work with other people under pressure was (I now think) more important than knowing how to figure out complicated integrals alone (and when was the last time I did that). If caught, this kind of thing is considered cheating. I used to not like school that much, until the point where courses got difficult enough that other students were there because they wanted to; difficult enough that we could bring out calculators and text books in the exams and still spend 8 hours doing them (I distinctly remember some EE Linear Control exams). The teacher would let us take smoking breaks and bring lunch. Copying someone elses exam wasn't an option, because of the pages and pages of calculations we had to show for our efforts.
For my best crib sheets I'd use two toothpicks and a couple of orthodontics rubber bands (you know, the very small ones). I'd then cut a strip of paper (the thinest you can find) to match the toothpick's length, write whatever I needed on it (or printing it with the smallest legible font, once computers were available) and roll it in each of the tootpicks, like little scrolls. They were very easy to take out and use and really hard to see by the teacher. Of course, the act of figuring out what to put in them was all I needed most of the time to study, so I'd rarely had to use them myself. But they were a great side business in high school!
Now-a-days I justify this to myself saying that the kind of class (or professor) that requires this kind of thing (learning by rote memorization) is stupid anyway, and nothing good can come from craming to memorize something you'll forget 10 minutes after the exam. I compare this to a history teacher I had that let us open the textbook on exams, but the questions were really hard and thought provoking.
I just buy labels labels from These guys
Sorry, but your comment is wrong. In spanish S, C and Z are different letters representing different sounds, same as B and V. You're probably Mexican (like I am) and are thus used to the Mexican mannerism of making them soundthe same. Try reading your post with a Spain accent and you'll see how bad it sounds. Overall Spanish is much simpler, though not perfect and still full of exceptions, but overall more verbs are regular and those that aren't deviate in similar ways, and also for the most part spelling is straight-forward: I could never imagine a spelling bee (a spelling competition) happening in Spanish! Now, if you really want to see a language that's dead simple, learn Esperanto: all verbs are regular, one sound to every letter and one letter to every sound, all words have the accent on the second to last sillable so you don't need the akward diacritical marks.
gawk, I hate that argument... if we only could save money from x we could spend it on y. How about not taking it away from the people who made it in the first place? You know, us taxpayers? There's a change.
I'm sure Zoboomafoo will be happy to hear this.
I was doing a silly walk one day... leap... leap... leap...
Please make sure you zoom all the way in...
There can be only one!
Don't both the statutes you mention have the word "knowingly"? If the files were downloaded as part of a queue and never looked at (the example given by parent post) then one doesn't knowingly posses. No?
Right, and we are supposed to believe you. For all we know you are part of "them" and want us to think that the data cannot be recovered when in reality you've poisoned all drives so that they are twice the size we think they are and keep everything backed up for you to see.
Ok, now I'll go back to listening to Art Bell.
Kial ne?
I really have nothing to say, but being passionate about Dvorak means that I have to post *something*, how could I not?
OK, I also speak Esperanto and vote Libertarian.
I doubt skunks have claws, IIRC, they are in the muselidae family (related to otters, minks, ferrets, weasels) and they don't have claws, not like cats do anyway; they have nails.
The nice part is that it only takes one major ISP enabling greylisting to automagically fix those out-of-spec servers. People might not fix their configurations for me, but I'm pretty sure they might respond differently to AOL or Earthlink.
The problem I see is that by your same logic, and assuming that greylisting assumes that spam sending software is not SMTP compliante, it only takes one major ISP enabling greylisting for SPAM boxes to get into the SMTP spec.
Mhh, a few features I like. The middle keys (enter, tab, etc) look interesting, though I suspect they'd be big targets for mystypes. But I'm not sure what you're getting at and your writings intrigue me. Straight keyboards that force you to keep your hands straight are painful, split keyboards (such as MS natural or the Kinesis Maxim that I mentioned) let your hands fall in a much more natural way. No?