The dangers of firing up the Large Hadron Collider. Repent now, ye scientists, before we create a black hole! Or cause the sun to go nova! Or cause a Spice Girls Reunion Tour!
Even when I was in High School and buff from gym class (It was too hot to go outside so we worked out in the weight room most of the year), I was still physically spent after working out. I can't even understand how you think that feeling energized after a workout would work. I mean, you just used up all your energy doing the workout, of course you're gonna be tired afterwards. It's like saying the longer you stay awake the more alert and awake you should be. It just doesn't make any sense.
Man, you must be on crack to think that in 90+ degree weather and 90%+ humidity a damp paper towel would do diddly squat. The only option would be a full shower, and with none on the premises, or indeed, anywhere near, it just aint gonna happen.
Wait... you're refusing to ride a bike because you're worried that it will make you not look pretty enough??
What sort of job is it you have that you don't have to be of professional appearance? Coming in drenched in sweat and smelling like a Rastafarian isn't such a bright idea if you want to keep your job.
Not to mention how exhausted you are after such an event.
And then there are the intangibles. Arriving by car I have just wasted the time spent sitting in the car (books on CD and whatnot can help somewhat). If I've arrived by bike, I feel refreshed, energised, relaxed, and vibrant. I've gotten in my recreation for the day, as well as my workout.
Jesus man, what drugs are you on that you feel BETTER after a workout rather than before?
While I agree biking should be more extensively used and supported (For example me trying to bike to work in Baton Rouge would be damned near suicide), doing physical labor makes you tired, not more 'energized'.
Actually, also, for me, it wouldn't be an option anyway. I have to get to work looking professional, and being drenched in sweat won't get me there.
It's not so much that they are actively evil, it's that they simply don't care. If their means of profit happens to destroy large tracts of land that they don't own, or happens not to, it simply doesn't matter to many of the people who run these things.
They're not really evil. Just amoral when it comes to their business practices.
Sounds like you are missing the point to me. They take the more boring and stodgy parts out and show you the very heart and soul of real science. Real scientists understand it's brain candy science and those who don't understand real science get a good hint and *Shock, horror* might actually get interested in it themselves, all without being just stupid and meaningless.
Sure, someone could make a show that chronicled exacting careful laborious and boring parts that took years to make and no one would watch, but what would the fricking point of that be?
I'm in the exact same boat as you. Every time I try to run Linux, it's the same old crap.
The few times it will install, critical drivers are just plain missing. The worst is the video card, which annoys me, because usually it'll have the nice little splash screen and go through the whole boot thing, but then the desktop is a wall of bright pink and orange vertical lines. This has happened with about 3 different versions of linux (Knoppix, Ubuntu, and another one that was a while ago.)
That was my desktop machine. I finally just gave up. I couldn't even get to a point where maybe I could find the right drivers, I never was able to even read the screen. (Before you ask it has an NVidea card, forget the model)
Next, I won a laptop from work. Little peice of crap gateway with Vista on it. One day Vista's BS pissed me off to the point where I was just plain fed up, so I decided to try Linux again.
This time, Ubuntu booted up. Great. I went to fire up the browser, no internet connection. I felt kinda stupid, until I tried to get the wireless card to work. Nothing doing. Then I tried plugging in with cat5. Nothing still. I couldn't even get on the forums to ask if anyone had drivers, muchless I'd have to go through the pain of learning to install drivers. I never could get an internet connection working. I booted into Vista and downloaded Knoppix. I tried booting into that. It crapped a bunch of errors at me and refused to continue booting. So I said 'Screw it' and went back to Vista, because, the sad fact is, for me, Vista is much more useable.
Linux will never get anywhere until you can put it on virtually any machine and have the @#%# drivers just friggin work, right out of the box. Till then, it'll never be anything but second class.
In any case, I, personally, can't wait for these. This, along with a sufficient Video Ipod, means I can take my music, videos, ebooks, and whatever else I want with me all for the size of a couple of packs of cigs. Excellent.
I've actually noticed how the people who are or at least consider themselves the 'intellectual elite', (And yes, this includes slashdotters, for the most part) tend to insulate themselves away from the more mundane world, even while sometimes bemoaning their own insulation.
I'd never thought of putting it into an actual story with a more structured actual separation.
Should be a good read. He can be rather better at predicting how people react to changes in technology rather than how most people think we'd react. (I.E. Relationship role changes and the way we interact fundamentally changed rather than just slightly bent.)
However I did have a friend who ended up working for the feds 'Internet Crimes Division'. I.E. Child Porn. There are a lot of neat tools out this, write blockers and whatnot.
However, what I am really writing to say is that people used to ask him what he did for a living, and he'd respond:
"Oh, I'm in the child porn business."
Guys who are in that line of work tend to have rather dark senses of humor:)
I've never used a firewire anything. I've even made sure each motherboard I've gotten has had it as a built in port, JIC. But I've never had a periperal that needed it. Even digital cameras and MP3 players.
There will always be ways for tech savvy people to get around this, and I mean really tech savvy people, not just kids who grew up knowing how to IM and text on their POS phones. For the overwhelming majority, they won't know how, and thus it will be effective enough.
They undoubtedly have the ability to, realistically, more thoroughly collect privacy-related data than almost any other non governmental agency.
While I believe that they are really trying to stick to the 'Do No Evil' ideal, I do believe that the groundwork they are laying down now is rife with the ability to be exploited in the future when, perhaps, they are run by people less concerned with idealism and more concerned about profits.
What they really need to dop is develop a variety of ways that they can, as much as they can, prevent themselves from abusing the power they have. Third party inspectors, not collecting some of the data in the first place, written and signed contracts concerning ethics and whatnot.
Will they all eventually fail? Most likely. But they can do a lot to slow the spread of the inevitable corruption.
At this point I think they are too idealistic to see it that way, though.
Who actually has done a lot to promote science.
Ok, so he did a lot of Sci-Fi. But most scientists I know were drawn to it *because* of some of the sci-fi they had seen.
A sad passing, not just for the cause of geeks and entertainment, but nerd and science.
Seriously, while I have a Neutral-To-Positive view of Nuclear power, so many proponents of it uses such fallacies. Can you not simply ask if he is in favor of Nuclear power? Just because someone isn't, doesn't automatically mean they are 'afraid' of it, it could very well mean they have something else in mind that might fit the situation they have better.
Really, I don't know why you haven't been modded as a troll yet.
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The dangers of firing up the Large Hadron Collider. Repent now, ye scientists, before we create a black hole! Or cause the sun to go nova! Or cause a Spice Girls Reunion Tour!
The apple doesn't fall from the tentacle rape tree?
Ha! I'd guess with a place like that it's the /.ers who might not be able to take the heat. It sounds like 4chan, only without all the rules.
Even when I was in High School and buff from gym class (It was too hot to go outside so we worked out in the weight room most of the year), I was still physically spent after working out. I can't even understand how you think that feeling energized after a workout would work. I mean, you just used up all your energy doing the workout, of course you're gonna be tired afterwards. It's like saying the longer you stay awake the more alert and awake you should be. It just doesn't make any sense.
Man, you must be on crack to think that in 90+ degree weather and 90%+ humidity a damp paper towel would do diddly squat. The only option would be a full shower, and with none on the premises, or indeed, anywhere near, it just aint gonna happen.
Nice trolling there, lou.
Wait... you're refusing to ride a bike because you're worried that it will make you not look pretty enough??
What sort of job is it you have that you don't have to be of professional appearance? Coming in drenched in sweat and smelling like a Rastafarian isn't such a bright idea if you want to keep your job.Not to mention how exhausted you are after such an event.
Exactly what I wanted to say. I work in Baton Rouge and live in New Orleans. Not exactly prime places for biking.
Though I have to say in NOLA it's a bit easier, not so spread out.
And then there are the intangibles. Arriving by car I have just wasted the time spent sitting in the car (books on CD and whatnot can help somewhat). If I've arrived by bike, I feel refreshed, energised, relaxed, and vibrant. I've gotten in my recreation for the day, as well as my workout.
Jesus man, what drugs are you on that you feel BETTER after a workout rather than before?While I agree biking should be more extensively used and supported (For example me trying to bike to work in Baton Rouge would be damned near suicide), doing physical labor makes you tired, not more 'energized'.
Actually, also, for me, it wouldn't be an option anyway. I have to get to work looking professional, and being drenched in sweat won't get me there.
It's not so much that they are actively evil, it's that they simply don't care. If their means of profit happens to destroy large tracts of land that they don't own, or happens not to, it simply doesn't matter to many of the people who run these things.
They're not really evil. Just amoral when it comes to their business practices.
In their personal lives? Most likely nice guys.
Down here in the deep south, I don't know that I've seen more than 5 or so 'In the wild'. In my life. They're a novelty.
Maybe your area just has 10% while my area has closer to Nil?
Well Said. I've always had similar issues with those games but couldn't exactly verbalize why.
82 at night? Eighty Freaking Two?
Yeah, that's great as long as you enjoy waking up in puddles of your own sweat.
Eighty two. Jesus.
Sounds like you are missing the point to me. They take the more boring and stodgy parts out and show you the very heart and soul of real science. Real scientists understand it's brain candy science and those who don't understand real science get a good hint and *Shock, horror* might actually get interested in it themselves, all without being just stupid and meaningless.
Sure, someone could make a show that chronicled exacting careful laborious and boring parts that took years to make and no one would watch, but what would the fricking point of that be?
I'm in the exact same boat as you. Every time I try to run Linux, it's the same old crap.
The few times it will install, critical drivers are just plain missing. The worst is the video card, which annoys me, because usually it'll have the nice little splash screen and go through the whole boot thing, but then the desktop is a wall of bright pink and orange vertical lines. This has happened with about 3 different versions of linux (Knoppix, Ubuntu, and another one that was a while ago.)
That was my desktop machine. I finally just gave up. I couldn't even get to a point where maybe I could find the right drivers, I never was able to even read the screen. (Before you ask it has an NVidea card, forget the model)
Next, I won a laptop from work. Little peice of crap gateway with Vista on it. One day Vista's BS pissed me off to the point where I was just plain fed up, so I decided to try Linux again.
This time, Ubuntu booted up. Great. I went to fire up the browser, no internet connection. I felt kinda stupid, until I tried to get the wireless card to work. Nothing doing. Then I tried plugging in with cat5. Nothing still. I couldn't even get on the forums to ask if anyone had drivers, muchless I'd have to go through the pain of learning to install drivers. I never could get an internet connection working. I booted into Vista and downloaded Knoppix. I tried booting into that. It crapped a bunch of errors at me and refused to continue booting. So I said 'Screw it' and went back to Vista, because, the sad fact is, for me, Vista is much more useable.
Linux will never get anywhere until you can put it on virtually any machine and have the @#%# drivers just friggin work, right out of the box. Till then, it'll never be anything but second class.
I'm pretty sure it was on /., too.
In any case, I, personally, can't wait for these. This, along with a sufficient Video Ipod, means I can take my music, videos, ebooks, and whatever else I want with me all for the size of a couple of packs of cigs. Excellent.
I've actually noticed how the people who are or at least consider themselves the 'intellectual elite', (And yes, this includes slashdotters, for the most part) tend to insulate themselves away from the more mundane world, even while sometimes bemoaning their own insulation.
I'd never thought of putting it into an actual story with a more structured actual separation.
Should be a good read. He can be rather better at predicting how people react to changes in technology rather than how most people think we'd react. (I.E. Relationship role changes and the way we interact fundamentally changed rather than just slightly bent.)
However I did have a friend who ended up working for the feds 'Internet Crimes Division'. I.E. Child Porn. There are a lot of neat tools out this, write blockers and whatnot.
:)
However, what I am really writing to say is that people used to ask him what he did for a living, and he'd respond:
"Oh, I'm in the child porn business."
Guys who are in that line of work tend to have rather dark senses of humor
I've never used a firewire anything. I've even made sure each motherboard I've gotten has had it as a built in port, JIC. But I've never had a periperal that needed it. Even digital cameras and MP3 players.
Exactly what I was thinking.
There will always be ways for tech savvy people to get around this, and I mean really tech savvy people, not just kids who grew up knowing how to IM and text on their POS phones. For the overwhelming majority, they won't know how, and thus it will be effective enough.
They undoubtedly have the ability to, realistically, more thoroughly collect privacy-related data than almost any other non governmental agency.
While I believe that they are really trying to stick to the 'Do No Evil' ideal, I do believe that the groundwork they are laying down now is rife with the ability to be exploited in the future when, perhaps, they are run by people less concerned with idealism and more concerned about profits.
What they really need to dop is develop a variety of ways that they can, as much as they can, prevent themselves from abusing the power they have. Third party inspectors, not collecting some of the data in the first place, written and signed contracts concerning ethics and whatnot.
Will they all eventually fail? Most likely. But they can do a lot to slow the spread of the inevitable corruption.
At this point I think they are too idealistic to see it that way, though.
Who actually has done a lot to promote science. Ok, so he did a lot of Sci-Fi. But most scientists I know were drawn to it *because* of some of the sci-fi they had seen. A sad passing, not just for the cause of geeks and entertainment, but nerd and science.
Wow. Have issues much? Maybe instead of a booster chair you should pay for some therapy there, lil fella.
That's a pretty disgusting way of finding people with their own brands of beer.
Now a dead *pig*, well, that's just good eatin.
What was that called again, begging the question?
Seriously, while I have a Neutral-To-Positive view of Nuclear power, so many proponents of it uses such fallacies. Can you not simply ask if he is in favor of Nuclear power? Just because someone isn't, doesn't automatically mean they are 'afraid' of it, it could very well mean they have something else in mind that might fit the situation they have better.
Really, I don't know why you haven't been modded as a troll yet.