My IQ is somewhere above 130, according to standardized tests. I am fully aware that IQ only measures very specific types of intelligence, and that I am probably both above and below average on other types of intelligence. For instance I absolutely suck at general small-talk. I love talking about things inside my sphere of interest, but the general "so, what's up?" kind of small talk completely flummoxes me.
I would say that being more informed of issues in the world, and being intelligent enough to know that there are better ways, definitely contributes to negatively to overall happiness. I mean, how can anyone be truly happy when there is war, hunger, injustice and exploitation in the world? How can anyone be content with the current situation when people are being mutilated and murdered by religious fanatics because they believe in different fairytales?
It's not that I never feel good emotions. I am moved to tears by particularly beautiful musical numbers, or sometimes movie scenes or books. I feel joy when I share good experiences with my friends and family. I am excited when I drive go-carts or ride my motorcycle. I am not a "*beep-boop* FEELINGS ARE ILLOGICAL" robot, I just don't think I have ever have felt true happiness, because I wonder and worry far too much.
Or maybe some people are just more on the same wavelength as mr. Stephenson, and 'get' him. For instance, I absolutely love the whole concept of Cryptonomicon and the numerous geeky technical asides. I could have done without the wanking system description, but nothing is ever perfect.
And I didn't find The Baroque Cycle tedious or plodding at all, I guess it just hit the right notes of mystery and alternate history for me.
Yes, I have ridden heavy bikes. I have also ridden medium bikes and light bikes. Thumpers, twins, 4-bangers, sports bikes, standards and cruisers, on and off road. Trust me, I know the difference.
I also know that if you brake hard, and do it correctly, the back end will not come around. That is unless you brake using the rear brake only, in which case you should not be allowed on a bike ever again until you learn proper braking technique. And of course you should only ever brake hard in a completely straight line. That's pretty basic stuff.
In ideal hard braking on a motorcycle, the rear wheel should just barely be on the ground. That means you're putting the maximum amount of braking through the front wheel. Of course, some bikes are so damn pig-heavy, long-wheelbased and underbraked that they can't do this, so adjust accordingly. The point is that you have to put as much braking force through the front wheel as possible. Again, basic physics that everyone who rides should know.
Yes, of course you shouldn't be off the gas when swerving, but you shouldn't be accelerating, either. Neutral throttle, learn it, live it.
Uh no, by increasing your speed, you're actually reducing your maneuverability. The faster you go, the less sharp your turns can be. That's why you can pretty easily do slow figure-8s at alternating full steering lock on most bikes at idle in 1st gear, but try to do so at even slightly higher speeds, and it just goes to shit because you have to lean excessively.
If you want to do proper evasive maneuvers, you have to bleed off as much speed as possible first, by braking as much as you can in a straight line.
If you had had any sort of actual rider training, you would know this.
Well, good thing you're playing up your little action movie scenario after the fact, acting as if you knew exactly what you were doing, with cool and calm reactions. You even threw in a little tough guy comment afterwards. Yeah, you would totally have killed that woman, way to guy, mr. Tough Guy.
Bull. Shit.
You fucking panicked and reacted in a stupid-ass way. Don't try to act as if what you did was in any way a rational move.
If you had taken any sort of serious rider training (as is mandatory in most western countries other that the US), you would have received extensive training in evasive maneuvers. In fact, you wouldn't even have been allowed to take the second on-road part of the rider's test before demonstrating acceptable skill in evasive braking and swerving.
What you should have done was brake hard, then release and swerve hard by countersteering strongly. Accelerating into a dangerous situation like you did is approximately the second-stupidest thing ("I had to lay 'er down" is still the stupidest) you can do in an emergency situation.
I have seen riders brake so hard the rear wheel left the ground, then countersteer and swerve so hard the front wheel actually left the ground momentarily, and then come out of the maneuver in perfect form.
You're not nearly as tough as you think you are. Advanced riding classes are an absolute must, especially in the US where there is basically no mandatory rider's training at all.
That's because almost every single other group is a "white pride" (or at least celebration of western white culture) group in disguise. Everything that happens in the western world is more a less a celebration of what white men have created over the last couple hundred years of history. You just can't see it because it's become the default state of the world you live in.
Based on the adjectives, one is more blue, the other is more white.
The photo shows plenty of color. From looking at the picture, the background in particular, it is very clear that the image is quite over-exposed, which will significantly lighten colors. Obviously, the camera based its light metering on the black parts of the overall rather dark dress, which caused the blue parts to become overexposed and the the background to blow out.
It's completely ridiculously obvious, to the point where I theorize that anyone seeing white instead of blue actually has a mild form of brain damage.
No, it's distinctly a grayish blue. The photo is perfectly fine showing which colors the dress is, it's just a bit overexposed so the colors doesn't show through as strongly as the official model photo on Amazon.
And shiny black often appears golden or brownish under strong direct light which is actually a really big clue. Since the "gold" parts fade way too much to black in the dark parts, it's obviously now brown/gold, but black with a strong light shining on it. And no light source can simultaneously put warm highlights on black, while at the same time casting a cool blue tint on white, especially not one as strong as in the picture. Not in this universe, at least.
No, the highlights are simply blowout because the picture was taken on a phone camera. Give me a bright enough light, a piece of dark fabric and a phone camera, and I can easily make white or near-white highlights appear on a picture of said dark fabric.
Brown highlights are common on "black" fabrics, since they are often extremely dark brown (or blue), not true black. So the dark parts are definitely black.
If the blue parts of the dress were actually white, that would require a light source with a lot of blue light, as well as a camera with very misconfigured white balance. You would have to deliberately do this to mislead. It's also impossible to do this on an iPhone (which the picture was taken with).
Lastly, we know for a fact that the dress is blue and black, because the manufacturer doesn't even sell a white and gold version.
Learning stuff from the bottom up is really good advice. Learn the basic of how stuff works and get a good knowledge foundation. From that you can usually extrapolate or at least make educated enough guesses that learning more complex systems becomes easier.
Be yourself. Stay curious. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Never shy away from a challenging task, because even if it fails, it will teach you something new and grant you valuable experience.
I am happy to see that you continue to get worked up to absolutely no avail. No matter how long and rambling your screeds continue to be, you will change no opinions and sway no votes.
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Let's ignore IQ then.
Still, the fact remain, by most definition of intelligence, someone very smart would know more things, be more "aware" of the world, etc.
And the world fucking sucks. The more you know and understand it, the more depressing it is.
I agree 100%. Knowing too much and not being able to mentally ignore the obvious bullshit sucks so much.
My IQ is somewhere above 130, according to standardized tests. I am fully aware that IQ only measures very specific types of intelligence, and that I am probably both above and below average on other types of intelligence. For instance I absolutely suck at general small-talk. I love talking about things inside my sphere of interest, but the general "so, what's up?" kind of small talk completely flummoxes me.
I would say that being more informed of issues in the world, and being intelligent enough to know that there are better ways, definitely contributes to negatively to overall happiness. I mean, how can anyone be truly happy when there is war, hunger, injustice and exploitation in the world? How can anyone be content with the current situation when people are being mutilated and murdered by religious fanatics because they believe in different fairytales?
It's not that I never feel good emotions. I am moved to tears by particularly beautiful musical numbers, or sometimes movie scenes or books. I feel joy when I share good experiences with my friends and family. I am excited when I drive go-carts or ride my motorcycle. I am not a "*beep-boop* FEELINGS ARE ILLOGICAL" robot, I just don't think I have ever have felt true happiness, because I wonder and worry far too much.
Ignorance is bliss.
Or maybe some people are just more on the same wavelength as mr. Stephenson, and 'get' him. For instance, I absolutely love the whole concept of Cryptonomicon and the numerous geeky technical asides. I could have done without the wanking system description, but nothing is ever perfect.
And I didn't find The Baroque Cycle tedious or plodding at all, I guess it just hit the right notes of mystery and alternate history for me.
Or perhaps your ADHD is getting the better of you.
I found all of them absolutely riveting.
I've found uBlock to be the best (and most resource-friendly) for Chrome, and it's available for Firefox now as well.
Absolutely no problem on my Acer Chromebook 13. 1080p60 Youtube videos play just fine, too.
Yes, I have ridden heavy bikes. I have also ridden medium bikes and light bikes. Thumpers, twins, 4-bangers, sports bikes, standards and cruisers, on and off road. Trust me, I know the difference.
I also know that if you brake hard, and do it correctly, the back end will not come around. That is unless you brake using the rear brake only, in which case you should not be allowed on a bike ever again until you learn proper braking technique. And of course you should only ever brake hard in a completely straight line. That's pretty basic stuff.
In ideal hard braking on a motorcycle, the rear wheel should just barely be on the ground. That means you're putting the maximum amount of braking through the front wheel. Of course, some bikes are so damn pig-heavy, long-wheelbased and underbraked that they can't do this, so adjust accordingly. The point is that you have to put as much braking force through the front wheel as possible. Again, basic physics that everyone who rides should know.
Yes, of course you shouldn't be off the gas when swerving, but you shouldn't be accelerating, either. Neutral throttle, learn it, live it.
Your overconfidence is still showing.
Uh no, by increasing your speed, you're actually reducing your maneuverability. The faster you go, the less sharp your turns can be. That's why you can pretty easily do slow figure-8s at alternating full steering lock on most bikes at idle in 1st gear, but try to do so at even slightly higher speeds, and it just goes to shit because you have to lean excessively.
If you want to do proper evasive maneuvers, you have to bleed off as much speed as possible first, by braking as much as you can in a straight line.
If you had had any sort of actual rider training, you would know this.
Well, good thing you're playing up your little action movie scenario after the fact, acting as if you knew exactly what you were doing, with cool and calm reactions. You even threw in a little tough guy comment afterwards. Yeah, you would totally have killed that woman, way to guy, mr. Tough Guy.
Bull. Shit.
You fucking panicked and reacted in a stupid-ass way. Don't try to act as if what you did was in any way a rational move.
If you had taken any sort of serious rider training (as is mandatory in most western countries other that the US), you would have received extensive training in evasive maneuvers. In fact, you wouldn't even have been allowed to take the second on-road part of the rider's test before demonstrating acceptable skill in evasive braking and swerving.
What you should have done was brake hard, then release and swerve hard by countersteering strongly. Accelerating into a dangerous situation like you did is approximately the second-stupidest thing ("I had to lay 'er down" is still the stupidest) you can do in an emergency situation.
I have seen riders brake so hard the rear wheel left the ground, then countersteer and swerve so hard the front wheel actually left the ground momentarily, and then come out of the maneuver in perfect form.
You're not nearly as tough as you think you are. Advanced riding classes are an absolute must, especially in the US where there is basically no mandatory rider's training at all.
That's because almost every single other group is a "white pride" (or at least celebration of western white culture) group in disguise. Everything that happens in the western world is more a less a celebration of what white men have created over the last couple hundred years of history. You just can't see it because it's become the default state of the world you live in.
You colossal idiot.
The picture was indeed taken with an iPhone :-)
We can definitely agree on the crappiness of the picture.
The centre 9th of the photo in question is quite dark, too.
To me it looks like it metered almost exclusively on a black part of the dress, blowing out both the background and the blue bits of the dress.
And yet the dress is definitely over-exposed when we compare with model pictures of the very same dress from Amazon etc.
Based on the adjectives, one is more blue, the other is more white.
The photo shows plenty of color. From looking at the picture, the background in particular, it is very clear that the image is quite over-exposed, which will significantly lighten colors. Obviously, the camera based its light metering on the black parts of the overall rather dark dress, which caused the blue parts to become overexposed and the the background to blow out.
It's completely ridiculously obvious, to the point where I theorize that anyone seeing white instead of blue actually has a mild form of brain damage.
But how can those factors simultaneously cause a warm highlight on black and a cool blue tint on white?
The answer is that they cannot do that.
No, it's distinctly a grayish blue. The photo is perfectly fine showing which colors the dress is, it's just a bit overexposed so the colors doesn't show through as strongly as the official model photo on Amazon.
And shiny black often appears golden or brownish under strong direct light which is actually a really big clue. Since the "gold" parts fade way too much to black in the dark parts, it's obviously now brown/gold, but black with a strong light shining on it. And no light source can simultaneously put warm highlights on black, while at the same time casting a cool blue tint on white, especially not one as strong as in the picture. Not in this universe, at least.
No, the highlights are simply blowout because the picture was taken on a phone camera. Give me a bright enough light, a piece of dark fabric and a phone camera, and I can easily make white or near-white highlights appear on a picture of said dark fabric.
Brown highlights are common on "black" fabrics, since they are often extremely dark brown (or blue), not true black. So the dark parts are definitely black.
If the blue parts of the dress were actually white, that would require a light source with a lot of blue light, as well as a camera with very misconfigured white balance. You would have to deliberately do this to mislead. It's also impossible to do this on an iPhone (which the picture was taken with).
Lastly, we know for a fact that the dress is blue and black, because the manufacturer doesn't even sell a white and gold version.
Both games run on RAGE (Rockstar Advanced Game Engine). Same foundation, same animation engine (Euphoria), same physics engine (Bullet) and so on.
The step from IV to V is not comparable to the move from RenderWare to RAGE at all.
Learning stuff from the bottom up is really good advice. Learn the basic of how stuff works and get a good knowledge foundation. From that you can usually extrapolate or at least make educated enough guesses that learning more complex systems becomes easier.
Be yourself. Stay curious. Treat others as you wish to be treated. Never shy away from a challenging task, because even if it fails, it will teach you something new and grant you valuable experience.
GTA IV and GTA V share the same engine, though.
I can beat that.
I own a gold-plated TOSLINK cable.
Keep diggin', you'll hit gold any day now.
Any. Day. Now.
I am happy to see that you continue to get worked up to absolutely no avail. No matter how long and rambling your screeds continue to be, you will change no opinions and sway no votes.
But please, do continue. You're quite amusing :-)