Re:Except Animals are more likely to be right.
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No, that is acceptable, because what you are really saying is something akin to 'the evidence shows that you are wrong". And that is fine, it's testable and provable. You're not in the unprovable/wrong side of the debate, you see.
Incidently, why (I come from a family of engineers, so I don't intend to flame) do SO MANY engineers overestimate their own skill, and underestimate the 'real world' factors in their designs?
I've always thought it odd how being a fresh engineering graduate makes some folks omniscient:)
Re:Except Animals are more likely to be right.
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Another favorite is "There's no reason..."
The other day someone hit me with "There's no reason for us to be in Iraq!"
Nonsense. There are lots of reasons. Whether you _agree_ with them is another matter, of course. But folks don't seem to be able to acknowledge a perspective they don't have.
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It is also worth stating that it is VERY common for a senator running for president to spend little of that last year doing actual senate business.
Whether this is right or wrong is left as an exercise to the reader. It is at least not a fault unique to Kerry.
Re:Mod me down if you like...
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You cracked some crypto. Spiffy. Might not be the best idea to lump yourself in with a lot of talented folks who ARE working to defend rights.
The EFF and others probably wouldn't appreciate that.
Re:"Hackers can sense...
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Can't agree with ya on this one. The fact that hackers come from so many different countries / economies / beliefs tends to instill in them a respect for freedom (of speech, thought, etc). As a group, we're probably much more alert to challenges to that freedom.
To be fair, however... we're also much more aware of whether Han shot first...
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An observation: People often resort to 'reality' when they don't have a better argument.
This isn't an attack on you by any means, just something I've noticed in most people. When they are beaten in a debate, or the issue is not provable (see religions / politics / whatever) they fall back to:
"Sure, but the truth is...X" "Yeah, but in the REAL world, X" "You have to admit X"
Where X is their (unproved) position. Interesting.
Alternately, they fall back to arguing 'common sense', which is extremely subjective, despite an OBJECTIVE name.
I seem to recall that being in the audio commentary for Fellowship. And it makes sense... while some of the extra stuff seems critical (boromir/faramir/denethor thing in TTT), some of it was just for fun (i.e. Merry and Pippin goinf nuts after finding the pantry at the end of TTT).
In any well made, long movie, some 'good stuff' will have to be trimmed to make the time limit (not just an arbitrary 3 hour mark, but short enough that the audience won't get bored). A good director knows this and is willing.
Bad directors (quentin, I'm looking at you...) don't know how to edit their own stuff down.
Glad it wasn't a troll. The thing is, he didn't just 'conceive of it', he took the unix standards, and made them work on a completely new system... we're talking about having to write a disk driver because he decided he wanted to save a file. Low level stuff here. And he continued to guide that implementation / improvement when it became a group effort.
For example: Werner von Braun built his machines based on the preexisting concepts of metallurgy, physics, mathematics, etc. But he still built a hell of a rocket (several, actually).
Linus isn't a case of Microsoft, who bought a finished OS and made a few changes... he built the damned thing from the ground up, alone. Pretty impressive to me.
It's a flawed analogy... Linus intended to build an OS to learn about the 80386 architecture. He did not, however, have intentions of taking on unix or MS for market share.... nor of it ever becoming widely known.
Because (and I SWEAR this isn't a slam on Debian), but only a few million people have heard of any given distro, but tens of millions or more have heard of Linux.
Correction: He created an implementation of an existing standard, which already had several other implementations, and took it to a new architecture, improved it (with lots of others), expanding it's abilities and hardware support.
Junkyard Wars (on The Learning to decorate Channel) was pretty fun. And Mythbusters is a fine show... there's nothing wrong with popularizing science by making it fun.
As an odd side note, I saw Adam on the DVD for Matrix Revolutions, I guess he was involved with the Dock scenes. Amazing to see him not giggling:)
I dig the bikes (the spider one from early is beautiful), but it's getting so formulatic... There should be a drinking game, every time the do this weird speech thing: "Well, I know that [OPINION A], but to tell you the truth [OPPOSITE OF OPINION A], So that's how it's gotta be", you drink.
There's something to be said for occasional 'how they make bikes' shows. The 'birth of the V-Rod' actually had a buncha science/engineering/history in it. But every night it's either a bike, or a hot rod... how 'bout some science guys?
At least the History Channel hasn't sold out. I was starting to lose faith when they did "Modern Marvels: knives and axes" (no joke). Pretty soon it's gonna be 'Modern Marvels: Dirt'.
Question: Where does the 60 Million number come from? I don't have any competing stats... it just seems that 1 in 4 people in the country (especially considering how many kids, elderly, and people w/o computers) is awfully high.
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No, that is acceptable, because what you are really saying is something akin to 'the evidence shows that you are wrong". And that is fine, it's testable and provable. You're not in the unprovable/wrong side of the debate, you see.
:)
Incidently, why (I come from a family of engineers, so I don't intend to flame) do SO MANY engineers overestimate their own skill, and underestimate the 'real world' factors in their designs?
I've always thought it odd how being a fresh engineering graduate makes some folks omniscient
Another favorite is "There's no reason..."
The other day someone hit me with "There's no reason for us to be in Iraq!"
Nonsense. There are lots of reasons. Whether you _agree_ with them is another matter, of course. But folks don't seem to be able to acknowledge a perspective they don't have.
It is also worth stating that it is VERY common for a senator running for president to spend little of that last year doing actual senate business.
Whether this is right or wrong is left as an exercise to the reader. It is at least not a fault unique to Kerry.
You cracked some crypto. Spiffy. Might not be the best idea to lump yourself in with a lot of talented folks who ARE working to defend rights.
The EFF and others probably wouldn't appreciate that.
Can't agree with ya on this one. The fact that hackers come from so many different countries / economies / beliefs tends to instill in them a respect for freedom (of speech, thought, etc). As a group, we're probably much more alert to challenges to that freedom.
To be fair, however... we're also much more aware of whether Han shot first...
An observation: People often resort to 'reality' when they don't have a better argument.
:)
This isn't an attack on you by any means, just something I've noticed in most people. When they are beaten in a debate, or the issue is not provable (see religions / politics / whatever) they fall back to:
"Sure, but the truth is...X"
"Yeah, but in the REAL world, X"
"You have to admit X"
Where X is their (unproved) position. Interesting.
Alternately, they fall back to arguing 'common sense', which is extremely subjective, despite an OBJECTIVE name.
People are odd
The least YOU could do, troll, is to log in... unless you're afraid of the "-1, Dick" Mod.
Yeah, I thought so.
I seem to recall that being in the audio commentary for Fellowship. And it makes sense... while some of the extra stuff seems critical (boromir/faramir/denethor thing in TTT), some of it was just for fun (i.e. Merry and Pippin goinf nuts after finding the pantry at the end of TTT).
In any well made, long movie, some 'good stuff' will have to be trimmed to make the time limit (not just an arbitrary 3 hour mark, but short enough that the audience won't get bored). A good director knows this and is willing.
Bad directors (quentin, I'm looking at you...) don't know how to edit their own stuff down.
Glad it wasn't a troll. The thing is, he didn't just 'conceive of it', he took the unix standards, and made them work on a completely new system... we're talking about having to write a disk driver because he decided he wanted to save a file. Low level stuff here. And he continued to guide that implementation / improvement when it became a group effort.
For example: Werner von Braun built his machines based on the preexisting concepts of metallurgy, physics, mathematics, etc. But he still built a hell of a rocket (several, actually).
Linus isn't a case of Microsoft, who bought a finished OS and made a few changes... he built the damned thing from the ground up, alone. Pretty impressive to me.
It's a flawed analogy... Linus intended to build an OS to learn about the 80386 architecture. He did not, however, have intentions of taking on unix or MS for market share.... nor of it ever becoming widely known.
Because (and I SWEAR this isn't a slam on Debian), but only a few million people have heard of any given distro, but tens of millions or more have heard of Linux.
Correction: He created an implementation of an existing standard, which already had several other implementations, and took it to a new architecture, improved it (with lots of others), expanding it's abilities and hardware support.
"merely" indeed, troll.
Preach on (heh) brotha... Moreover, we're encouraged to be intellectually lazy.
A) Weak troll, my friend
B) Harley has used the Evolution engine for quite a while now, so why can't it be included?
Yeah, I knew that (in the earlier shows the mentioned specific movies a few times). It was just weird to see Adam being serious.
OK, Captain Random Flame... yer momma dresses you funny too...
THAT was a hell of a show.
Get thee to a statistics class!
Eh, I'm bigger than he is :)
Every time I hear his psycho dad talking about "size 12s" I look down at my size 13 steel toes and laugh...
Junkyard Wars (on The Learning to decorate Channel) was pretty fun. And Mythbusters is a fine show... there's nothing wrong with popularizing science by making it fun.
:)
As an odd side note, I saw Adam on the DVD for Matrix Revolutions, I guess he was involved with the Dock scenes. Amazing to see him not giggling
I dig the bikes (the spider one from early is beautiful), but it's getting so formulatic... There should be a drinking game, every time the do this weird speech thing: "Well, I know that [OPINION A], but to tell you the truth [OPPOSITE OF OPINION A], So that's how it's gotta be", you drink.
There's something to be said for occasional 'how they make bikes' shows. The 'birth of the V-Rod' actually had a buncha science/engineering/history in it. But every night it's either a bike, or a hot rod... how 'bout some science guys?
At least the History Channel hasn't sold out. I was starting to lose faith when they did "Modern Marvels: knives and axes" (no joke). Pretty soon it's gonna be 'Modern Marvels: Dirt'.
Before it became the Discover Motorcycles Channel
Only in Jedi. In empire, it was an optical composite of an old woman and a chimp.
Wait... the other societies aren't choices because you don't LIKE them? what kinda odd logic is that?
Question: Where does the 60 Million number come from? I don't have any competing stats... it just seems that 1 in 4 people in the country (especially considering how many kids, elderly, and people w/o computers) is awfully high.