How is it that no more than 4 days ago the slashdot poll dealt with 'hacker' films and not a single film wasn't beaten to a pulp for factual errors but this post gets a +4 Insightful for basically saying that factual errors aren't a big deal? I know of no crowd more critical of facts than Slashdot but here this is getting praise? What's going on with that?
It's called ideology, and it's going to be civilization's undoing.
I have, in the past (before I gave up), tried to show people were in error on some topic by presenting detailed proof. The mental gymnastics these people underwent to avoid the hard facts was astonishing and, to be honest, quite frightening. It made me conclude that ideology- left, right or whatever- is a type of mental illness.
...when the big mouthed troublemakers lie and distort just as much as the State, is it really value added, or just divisive bullshit that hides real solutions in ideological fog?
...we can get all the political news we want everywhere else.
Who cares what some fat hypociritcal fuckhead said in a fake documentary about some dunce hypocritical politician? All that stuff is bullshit played on a tottering stage by people with broken minds.
It won an award? Wow. A left leaning anti-Bush film was granted an award by a left leaning crowd in a country that hates Bush. Who would have thunk it? Not only is it non-Slashdot news, it non-news period. It's like Scientologists getting together to vote L. Ron Hubbard man of the year, or something.
Imagine this: A thousand little stations send radio programming across cities and towns from senior centers, dorm rooms and attics. The understaffed FCC would be powerless to shut them down.
Imagine this: A thousand little stations interfering with police, fire and ambulance radio dispatching and communications, and, even better, aircraft communications. The understaffed FCC can't shut them down, but the FAA comes in and (deservedly) kicks your ass.
Yeah, yeah, I know. It's low power FM and everyone will make sure to be nice. Right. That's how things always work out, right? None of these homebrew transmitters will have a bad harmonic or other out of band spur, right? And as the FM band becomes fuzzed out no one will flee to other bands, right?
This is the ONE legitimate purpose of the FCC- bandwidth management. You're so ideological stubborn you'd eliminate that as well and deliver the spectrum into chaos?
Funny. Actually, I'm quite OK on that front. My looks are fine. And I started working out regularly in the 9th grade, but never got into the athetic crap. Where I went to high school all the team sports, and the way they were handled, were homorerotic farces.
Not that I'm prejudiced againt homoeroticism- it's just not my thing. Let's just say the news stories in recent years involving high school sports, hazing and artificial objects forcibly jammed into anuses didn't exactly surprise me to any great extent.
To be honest, to this day I don't clearly understand why I was such an outcast in school. I just didn't connect with anyone or anything, and so the clique culture went to work. I'm amazed sometimes I got past it all without pulling a Columbine.
When I came here at the age of 16, one of the biggest cultural shocks for me was that among people my own age, intellect and doing good at school was not encouraged.. even mocked.
Another factor that has reared its ugly head is the idea that "no one should be left behind". Laudable on the surface of it, but the real world manifestation is to try and drag everyong down to the lowest common denominator instead of trying to raise everyone up.
And I'm a guy who always felt the "study, study, study, HIGH PRESSURE EXAM THAT'S WORTH HALF YOUR GRADE SO IT SUCKS TO BE YOU IF YOU'RE HAVING A BAD MORNING!" approach left a lot to be desired, but even I find the "educators" advocating the elimination of letter grades and exams and homework to be completely misguided.
50 years of moovies and teevee depicting anyone with an interest in science as a total and complete loser will do that to a society.
A half century of elevating athletic stars to godhood and excusing them any and every crime imaginable. Or pandering to anyone who happened to win the genetic lottery and be born beautiful.
Decades of worrying whether a schoolchild has his chi focused instead of making sure he or she can add two single digit numbers in their head.
And letting the clique situation in schools to progress to the level of the Lord Of The Flies hasn't helped, either. When I was in high school, I saw teacher actively engaging in making some students outcasts (usually because they were smarter). I can't imagine what it's like now with the "let's all be mediocre" mindset.
One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
Wow. News from the last century!
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Imean, this thing was featured in Simpsons Hit And Run, and in the animated series years ago. Popular science had a cover article on it, like, in the 1990s.
*shrug* I'm a hardware engineer. I program to simulate things and to write GUI interfaces to my hardware. If I don't, our software people will use that unholy beast called Labview and make pale, lifeless control panels that would crush my creative spirit.
Have I come full circle? By the time I got to C++ and VB, I was mainly programming for work, but RB has made programming fun again, and I have launched a couple personal projects for the first time in years.
If someone offered a candy bar for my password, I'd take the candy bar and give them a fake password. Unless these guys tested each and every one, we have no idea how many people actually give real passwords.
And "I'm tired of passwords, so I'm going to give it to a stranger" doesn't really parse.
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Nuff said, dumbass.
So my North Face jacket and L. L. Bean mittens aren't going to cut it, eh?
It's called ideology, and it's going to be civilization's undoing.
I have, in the past (before I gave up), tried to show people were in error on some topic by presenting detailed proof. The mental gymnastics these people underwent to avoid the hard facts was astonishing and, to be honest, quite frightening. It made me conclude that ideology- left, right or whatever- is a type of mental illness.
...when the big mouthed troublemakers lie and distort just as much as the State, is it really value added, or just divisive bullshit that hides real solutions in ideological fog?
Who cares what some fat hypociritcal fuckhead said in a fake documentary about some dunce hypocritical politician? All that stuff is bullshit played on a tottering stage by people with broken minds.
It won an award? Wow. A left leaning anti-Bush film was granted an award by a left leaning crowd in a country that hates Bush. Who would have thunk it? Not only is it non-Slashdot news, it non-news period. It's like Scientologists getting together to vote L. Ron Hubbard man of the year, or something.
Bush. Moore. Just two peas at opposite ends of the ideology pod. Following one or the other is to operate at a zero level of intellect.
...and rename the site "butthead great-niece of some math professor."
No, that would be the Global Blackout study.
And I'm still waiting for my turn to drive one of the Mars rovers.
But the ARTICLE talks about "taking back" the airwaves and doing things to get the FCC coming round your house.
Imagine this: A thousand little stations interfering with police, fire and ambulance radio dispatching and communications, and, even better, aircraft communications. The understaffed FCC can't shut them down, but the FAA comes in and (deservedly) kicks your ass.
Yeah, yeah, I know. It's low power FM and everyone will make sure to be nice. Right. That's how things always work out, right? None of these homebrew transmitters will have a bad harmonic or other out of band spur, right? And as the FM band becomes fuzzed out no one will flee to other bands, right?
This is the ONE legitimate purpose of the FCC- bandwidth management. You're so ideological stubborn you'd eliminate that as well and deliver the spectrum into chaos?
Yeah, that should be the another nail in Intel's coffin.
Oops, I didn't mean to type that last bit out loud!
I heard some guy from Nigeria is looking for a sponser, but that might be something else.
I plan to buy it, but can I still have a cookie?
I may just stop using email completely... :-\
Funny. Actually, I'm quite OK on that front. My looks are fine. And I started working out regularly in the 9th grade, but never got into the athetic crap. Where I went to high school all the team sports, and the way they were handled, were homorerotic farces.
Not that I'm prejudiced againt homoeroticism- it's just not my thing. Let's just say the news stories in recent years involving high school sports, hazing and artificial objects forcibly jammed into anuses didn't exactly surprise me to any great extent.
To be honest, to this day I don't clearly understand why I was such an outcast in school. I just didn't connect with anyone or anything, and so the clique culture went to work. I'm amazed sometimes I got past it all without pulling a Columbine.
Another factor that has reared its ugly head is the idea that "no one should be left behind". Laudable on the surface of it, but the real world manifestation is to try and drag everyong down to the lowest common denominator instead of trying to raise everyone up.
And I'm a guy who always felt the "study, study, study, HIGH PRESSURE EXAM THAT'S WORTH HALF YOUR GRADE SO IT SUCKS TO BE YOU IF YOU'RE HAVING A BAD MORNING!" approach left a lot to be desired, but even I find the "educators" advocating the elimination of letter grades and exams and homework to be completely misguided.
A half century of elevating athletic stars to godhood and excusing them any and every crime imaginable. Or pandering to anyone who happened to win the genetic lottery and be born beautiful.
Decades of worrying whether a schoolchild has his chi focused instead of making sure he or she can add two single digit numbers in their head.
And letting the clique situation in schools to progress to the level of the Lord Of The Flies hasn't helped, either. When I was in high school, I saw teacher actively engaging in making some students outcasts (usually because they were smarter). I can't imagine what it's like now with the "let's all be mediocre" mindset.
One through nine, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions. You can't travel in space, you can't go out into space, you know, without, like, you know, uh, with fractions - what are you going to land on - one-quarter, three-eighths? What are you going to do when you go from here to Venus or something? That's dialectic physics.
Imean, this thing was featured in Simpsons Hit And Run, and in the animated series years ago. Popular science had a cover article on it, like, in the 1990s.
*shrug* I'm a hardware engineer. I program to simulate things and to write GUI interfaces to my hardware. If I don't, our software people will use that unholy beast called Labview and make pale, lifeless control panels that would crush my creative spirit.
Atari Basic
6502 Assembler
Fortran
Action!
Deep Blue C
Pascal
Metrowerks C
GNU C
Perl (just enough to make my Unix life easier)
Java
GNU C++
Visual Basic
RealBasic
Have I come full circle? By the time I got to C++ and VB, I was mainly programming for work, but RB has made programming fun again, and I have launched a couple personal projects for the first time in years.
Gold bonus points if you know what Action! was.
Are they sure it isn't the HAL9000 dicking them around?
And 95% of the product is drivel.
We need, like, an Anti-Troll mod, like "-5 Sycophant" or something, for posts like this. Maybe "-5 Crawly Bum-lick".
And "I'm tired of passwords, so I'm going to give it to a stranger" doesn't really parse.