Heh. Well yes, I eventually did notice, but unfortunately only after I googled the guy and revisited your post. Which was well after hitting the "submit" button.
Guess it pays to remember that on Soviet Slashdot, obnoxious know-it-all is YOU.
Anyhow despite being something of a crackpot, this Lynds guy comes off as being reasonably intelligent. It's sad to see him inadvertently disproving his own claim that he's too good for a university education. There's a grain of truth in his attitude, but just a grain.
If you're going to cop a know-it-all attitude about it, I'm going to have to point out that you're about a hundred years off on this so-called "discovery":
This Lynds fellow was born in 1975. But a metaphysician named J.M.E. McTaggert was writing on this subject from the early 1900s onwards. McTaggert is considered to be the modern originator of the whole debate, and anything Lynds contributed probably owes a great deal to him.
Obligatory joke about how "nobody beat anyone" goes here.
There's no such thing as a truth-inducing drug. It's a psychological trick played on extra-tough subjects by their interrogators:
1) Apply torture
2) Tell victim "this drug will make you tell us everything you know"
3) Inject random mildly psychoactive drug
4) Torture victim more
5) Victim confesses
The victim has been indoctrinated against helping you and so you may ordinarily be able to torture him to death without extracting useful information. However, he is still under extreme pain and will do anything to escape as long as it doesn't mean betraying his comrades. There are ways to brainwash him into thinking that confessing will actually help his comrades but this is much simpler - he lets himself think that no human can resist the magical "truth drug" and so escapes the torture with a relatively clean conscience.
You can thank the School of the Americas for this special trick.
Firstly, the minimum wage in Mexico is 43.65 Pesos [laredo-ldf.com], or just under $4. Not exactly 60 cents.
Look more carefully. That's 43.65 Pesos per day. If we're generous and say the average laborer in the Puebla VW plant works an 8 hour day (I'm guessing more like 10), that's 5 pesos an hour, which is actually less than 60 cents an hour.
get access to the competitions phone wires, walla!! corpate espionage.
ahem, "voila" comes from French, mademoiselle.
I think he was actually trying to use the Tagalog word "wala", which literally means "none" or "nothing". Perhaps it would have been clearer had he said "fuggeddiboutit!" or "game over, man!"
I don't know if I'd call them professional, but my Etymotic ER-6's are great in that regard. For a 35 minute subway commute or an 18 hour plane trip, they block out enough ambient noise to keep the volume low and my eardrums intact. I sometimes even use them as earplugs when I'm not listening to music, although they have the slight disadvantage of being rather hard to spot in my ears, meaning it takes longer for panhandlers to figure out why I'm ignoring them.
Other drawbacks include hearing your bones grinding together while walking, and having to replace the foam buds every so often.
We're getting close to the point that a low-level cell phone will have a color display and enough computing power to play Pac-Man.
The problem is that the manufacturer's idea of "enough computing power" differs from mine. The free Sony/Nokia phone that I got has a color display and all sorts of whiz-bang features. Which is fine with me, except that every time I try to do something like pull up a phone number from my address book, the "please wait" thingy has to churn for about three seconds. I can't tell you how many times I've dialed the wrong number because of this ridiculous lag time. Not to mention the fact that it takes another six seconds to disconnect after you realized you dialed the wrong number.
I'm just nuts about the secret buried just-for-fun features
Heh. My favorite secret buried just for fun feature is where filevault "recovers" your "lost disk space" upon shutting down, completely wrecking your dock and preferences. This is followed by hours of fun and games combing through Mac forums trying to figure out what you did wrong.
OTOH, I also enjoy the part where iTunes freaks out and crashes if you delete any songs without using the iTunes interface.
Ok, I guess relying on memory from five years ago isn't so good... I couldn't find anything on google related to NWA actually paying for construction costs, but in any case they helped design it and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the terminal wouldn't be there if not for NWA.
You obviously don't live in Detroit. Here, we call them Northworst, and it really doesn't surprise me.
The correct name is "Edward H. McNamara/Northwest WorldGateway, and Northwest airlines picked up a good part of the tab. It's only fair that they get to stick their name on it too. Were you so attached to the dump that was the old Wayne County Airport? Most travellers weren't, I can assure you (I used to work at NWA, in the good old days before World War II I/II started).
At any rate, it's rather disappointing to read about this lack of honesty on the part of NWA. Their PR folks claim that they didn't technically violate their privacy policy, and they're probably technically right, but it violates the spirit of the policy. I have a paid ticket on NWA in the near future, and believe me I'd cancel it and demand a refund if I had the resources to fight their system, but since I don't I'll just gripe about it on/.
One definite area of interest is the link between superfluid helium and superconductivity.
IANAP but from what I gathered googling for the term "Bose Einstein condensate", superconductivity and superfluidity occur under similar conditions due to the "shared quantum state" that occurs between the atoms (I will confess to only having a vague feeling of understanding when I read that phrase, analogous to the vague feeling of piety I got as a kid in church back before I became an atheist).
So if I understand correctly, the shared quantum state makes it possible for electrons to "tunnel" through a low-temperature mash of helium atoms with zero electrical resistance. At this point I will step aside and beg a physicist to come to my rescue. Anyone want to clarify this?
My dad did his PhD thesis on liquid helium 3. Apparently it's pretty difficult to contain the stuff, since even the tiniest opening in a container is enough for everything to escape at once (no viscosity)...
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Anyway, in response to the AC - the article was supposedly about heatsinks, not CPU fans. Although some heatsinks come with a fan permanently attached, the better ones let you pick your own fan.
OTOH, this is said without having RTFA so YMMV and IANAL.
(See SAD, people who need melatonin supplements to get normal sleep in some parts of the year, etc.)
Don't forget that SAD also stands for "Social Anxiety Disorder". Luckily, to avert any confusion, Zoloft(tm) has been approved for treatment of both conditions. Ask your doctor for more information today! Zoloft(tm) - Because Life Happens to Everyone(r).
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Selective breeding has limits that could arguably be called 'natural'. Ex: you can't breed a lima bean with a dairy cow, yet you could splice genes between the two organisms. Selective breeding and direct manipulation of DNA are not the same thing at all.
In fact, I HATE bicycle helmets. Their sole purpose is to show all the people driving around that the person on the bike is middle class, has a car at home, can afford a $100 helmet, and is seriously concerned about saving the environment to the point of actually going out into the public on a bicycle.
Actually, it's because none of you fucking cagers know how to drive. The fact that you're not aware of this fact is a sure sign that you never have ridden a bike for a serious amount of time.
But aren't stereotypes a logical and efficient way of group things (in this case people)?
Anyway, I'm gonna go hang out in the backyard of my white Protestant family's backyard and talk about golf while barbecuing.
It's interesting that you mention this last bit. It always seems that the most vocal defenders of this point of view are part of the same groups responsible for perpetuating the stereotypes which make themselves look comically harmless at worst, while making certain ethnic minorities the subjects of some of the most harmful stereotypes. As a white Protestant, you would probably agree that being judged by the stereotype about your 'people' does not threaten your employment potential.
Also ironic that I'm grouping you in with the stereotype of people who perpetuate stereotypes, by the mere fact that you identified yourself by race.
In any case, the more people I meet, the less useful stereotypes seem to be. YMMV.
Why does the Matrix inspire this type of snobishness?
Because everybody goes to see it.
Intellectuals and hardcore film snobs are accustomed to "getting" what most people don't "get". But for some poor souls, the Architect scene is the most intellectually challenging movie scene they've ever watched. The ones in the upper 50th percentile who are able to understand most of the words get to experience something they rarely experience otherwise: the feeling of having "understood" something that some of their peers didn't understand.
So unlike actual intellectuals, who have long since grown accustomed to the loneliness of cognitive superiority, these people are placed in the unenviable situation of feeling smarter than they really are. They immediately rush out to share their impressive cognitive abilities with EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET. And this is how those of us who didn't like Reloaded are demoted to "unwashed masses".
I doan't agree with you, K4. The sceen was to hard for peopal to understand, how can you no what level's of meaning there is if you litterally doan't get what the Architec is saying, I mean dam, its easy for college kids like you to say you enjoyd it but its oviously written for litterature snobbs.
The fact that they're committed to providing the best results, in addition to their Rule #1: "Don't be evil," has me convinced that if they can't continue to provide great results and thwart most of the cheaters, then no one can.
Who says their definition of evil is the same as your definition, or mine? I'm not saying Google is evil, but you know what they say about absolute power...
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Guess it pays to remember that on Soviet Slashdot, obnoxious know-it-all is YOU.
Anyhow despite being something of a crackpot, this Lynds guy comes off as being reasonably intelligent. It's sad to see him inadvertently disproving his own claim that he's too good for a university education. There's a grain of truth in his attitude, but just a grain.
This Lynds fellow was born in 1975. But a metaphysician named J.M.E. McTaggert was writing on this subject from the early 1900s onwards. McTaggert is considered to be the modern originator of the whole debate, and anything Lynds contributed probably owes a great deal to him.
Obligatory joke about how "nobody beat anyone" goes here.
1) Apply torture
2) Tell victim "this drug will make you tell us everything you know"
3) Inject random mildly psychoactive drug
4) Torture victim more
5) Victim confesses
The victim has been indoctrinated against helping you and so you may ordinarily be able to torture him to death without extracting useful information. However, he is still under extreme pain and will do anything to escape as long as it doesn't mean betraying his comrades. There are ways to brainwash him into thinking that confessing will actually help his comrades but this is much simpler - he lets himself think that no human can resist the magical "truth drug" and so escapes the torture with a relatively clean conscience.
You can thank the School of the Americas for this special trick.
Look more carefully. That's 43.65 Pesos per day. If we're generous and say the average laborer in the Puebla VW plant works an 8 hour day (I'm guessing more like 10), that's 5 pesos an hour, which is actually less than 60 cents an hour.
"Viewed as"? Perhaps by you. I do all of the above with my box. Tried Linux lately?
I think he was actually trying to use the Tagalog word "wala", which literally means "none" or "nothing". Perhaps it would have been clearer had he said "fuggeddiboutit!" or "game over, man!"
Other drawbacks include hearing your bones grinding together while walking, and having to replace the foam buds every so often.
How do you know the trillion dollars isn't going into some black-budget project? "Oops" is a suspiciously easy explanation...
The problem is that the manufacturer's idea of "enough computing power" differs from mine. The free Sony/Nokia phone that I got has a color display and all sorts of whiz-bang features. Which is fine with me, except that every time I try to do something like pull up a phone number from my address book, the "please wait" thingy has to churn for about three seconds. I can't tell you how many times I've dialed the wrong number because of this ridiculous lag time. Not to mention the fact that it takes another six seconds to disconnect after you realized you dialed the wrong number.
Heh. My favorite secret buried just for fun feature is where filevault "recovers" your "lost disk space" upon shutting down, completely wrecking your dock and preferences. This is followed by hours of fun and games combing through Mac forums trying to figure out what you did wrong.
OTOH, I also enjoy the part where iTunes freaks out and crashes if you delete any songs without using the iTunes interface.
Ok, I guess relying on memory from five years ago isn't so good... I couldn't find anything on google related to NWA actually paying for construction costs, but in any case they helped design it and it wouldn't be much of a stretch to say that the terminal wouldn't be there if not for NWA.
The correct name is "Edward H. McNamara/Northwest WorldGateway, and Northwest airlines picked up a good part of the tab. It's only fair that they get to stick their name on it too. Were you so attached to the dump that was the old Wayne County Airport? Most travellers weren't, I can assure you (I used to work at NWA, in the good old days before World War II I/II started).
At any rate, it's rather disappointing to read about this lack of honesty on the part of NWA. Their PR folks claim that they didn't technically violate their privacy policy, and they're probably technically right, but it violates the spirit of the policy. I have a paid ticket on NWA in the near future, and believe me I'd cancel it and demand a refund if I had the resources to fight their system, but since I don't I'll just gripe about it on /.
IANAP but from what I gathered googling for the term "Bose Einstein condensate", superconductivity and superfluidity occur under similar conditions due to the "shared quantum state" that occurs between the atoms (I will confess to only having a vague feeling of understanding when I read that phrase, analogous to the vague feeling of piety I got as a kid in church back before I became an atheist).
So if I understand correctly, the shared quantum state makes it possible for electrons to "tunnel" through a low-temperature mash of helium atoms with zero electrical resistance. At this point I will step aside and beg a physicist to come to my rescue. Anyone want to clarify this?
My dad did his PhD thesis on liquid helium 3. Apparently it's pretty difficult to contain the stuff, since even the tiniest opening in a container is enough for everything to escape at once (no viscosity)...
1. Post early
2. Make sure at least one word is on topic
3. ???
4. Profit!
Anyway, in response to the AC - the article was supposedly about heatsinks, not CPU fans. Although some heatsinks come with a fan permanently attached, the better ones let you pick your own fan.
OTOH, this is said without having RTFA so YMMV and IANAL.
Don't forget that SAD also stands for "Social Anxiety Disorder". Luckily, to avert any confusion, Zoloft(tm) has been approved for treatment of both conditions. Ask your doctor for more information today! Zoloft(tm) - Because Life Happens to Everyone(r).
This post brought to you by Pfizer - When You Know More About What's Wrong, You Can Help Make It Right(r).
Selective breeding has limits that could arguably be called 'natural'. Ex: you can't breed a lima bean with a dairy cow, yet you could splice genes between the two organisms. Selective breeding and direct manipulation of DNA are not the same thing at all.
Perhaps in the year 2015, Shanghaiese will trek down to USiatown when they need a pirated copy of the latest EVD....
Actually, it's because none of you fucking cagers know how to drive. The fact that you're not aware of this fact is a sure sign that you never have ridden a bike for a serious amount of time.
Anyway, I'm gonna go hang out in the backyard of my white Protestant family's backyard and talk about golf while barbecuing.
It's interesting that you mention this last bit. It always seems that the most vocal defenders of this point of view are part of the same groups responsible for perpetuating the stereotypes which make themselves look comically harmless at worst, while making certain ethnic minorities the subjects of some of the most harmful stereotypes. As a white Protestant, you would probably agree that being judged by the stereotype about your 'people' does not threaten your employment potential.
Also ironic that I'm grouping you in with the stereotype of people who perpetuate stereotypes, by the mere fact that you identified yourself by race.
In any case, the more people I meet, the less useful stereotypes seem to be. YMMV.
Because everybody goes to see it.
Intellectuals and hardcore film snobs are accustomed to "getting" what most people don't "get". But for some poor souls, the Architect scene is the most intellectually challenging movie scene they've ever watched. The ones in the upper 50th percentile who are able to understand most of the words get to experience something they rarely experience otherwise: the feeling of having "understood" something that some of their peers didn't understand.
So unlike actual intellectuals, who have long since grown accustomed to the loneliness of cognitive superiority, these people are placed in the unenviable situation of feeling smarter than they really are. They immediately rush out to share their impressive cognitive abilities with EVERYONE ON THE INTERNET. And this is how those of us who didn't like Reloaded are demoted to "unwashed masses".
I doan't agree with you, K4. The sceen was to hard for peopal to understand, how can you no what level's of meaning there is if you litterally doan't get what the Architec is saying, I mean dam, its easy for college kids like you to say you enjoyd it but its oviously written for litterature snobbs.
Who says their definition of evil is the same as your definition, or mine? I'm not saying Google is evil, but you know what they say about absolute power...
Wow, that must have been the fastest mod in Slashdot history.