it depends on what you mean by "like" a circle. When examined from the perspective of group theory, the more sides the n-gon, the more like a circle --- where "more like" means greater cardinality of the symmetry group.
By using their roads you agree to abide by their rules.
Excuse me... whose roads? Oh, the roads the taxpayers (myself included) paid for (and continue to pay for).
Nothing prohibits you from making your own roads and doing whatever the heck you please on them at whatever speeds you like.
Oh, like murdering people on them, or driving on them at high speed from a bank robbery. Yup. Why I could just pull over on MY ROAD and stick my tongue out at the law man. Get real.
If you aren't trolling, and want to see some ligitimate arguments against this government intrusion, read a little further down the thread.
However, one has the right to be secure in there person and property, so devices like this cannot be required to be installed in ones' home without a court order.
And no one would EVER dream of changing the law so as to require the installation of cameras in your home, right? I mean, our government representatives are the GOOD GUYS. Aren't they?
Answer me this --- Just who would be in charge of monitoring this data? Would it be farmed out to some corporation, who could serve advertisements? Or maybe a terrorist/serial killer/psychopath could get access to this data and track his targets. Yeah. The possibilities are endless. This is a bad, bad, bad idea.
Also, there's a big difference between tracking you when you're in a public space (like a road) and installing a camera into your home so policemen can watch you jack off.
And there's my beef: the slippery slope. If we let this fly, watch the "big difference" between them disappear. It isn't anyone's GOD DAMNED business when and where I go. I like to keep it that way.
Why stop there? I'd be willing to pay more taxes so that the government could install surveillance cameras in every room of every citizen's home. It would help with illegal drug usage, private gambling, prostitution, wife-beating, child molestation, and a whole host of other problems. If you don't have anything to hide you really shouldn't be against it. The possibilities are limitless.
See, that's what it comes down to. It's always the other guy who needs to devote his life/time/money/etc. to save the world. But not you, huh? It's a little too inconvenient to give up your addiction to automobiles, right? Why, I'll bet you haven't even donated any money to AIDS research or to AIDS victims.
Well, I'm sorry that you misinterpreted what I said. When I said people should take care of themselves, I meant prevention, not cure. I certainly did not mean to imply that victims of AIDS deserve no help. Rather, that people should actively stay away from dangerous situations so that they avoid contracting it to begin with.
I also have no problem with pointing out the hypocrisy of those who complain that others don't do enough to help, when almost certainly they themselves could do more to help.
No. You are putting words in my mouth. Go back and find where I said people deserve no pity. If someone wants to help them, I have no problem with that. Likewise --- and here is the point --- if someone chooses NOT to help them, I have no problem with that either. For otherwise, I should spend most of my time and energies helping other people. Who here is willing to go that far? No one, I'll wager.
There is a difference between giving of your own free will, and being coerced to give. It is hypocritical to berate someone for not helping if you don't do everything you can to help. If you are so concerned about the welfare of others, go to the poorest part of your town, pick up some destitute soul, and invite them to your home to sup. Go on. Get to it.
I anticipated this type of response. That is why I said LARGELY spread, rather than EXCLUSIVELY spread. Thousands of people die a year in the US from automobile collisions. Do you have an automobile? If so, why not get rid of it? Maybe you've never seen a loved one mangled in a car crash. Mention you won't waste any tears for them, because you have a right to drive.
Let me ask you this: Do you have any disposable income? And, is there any poverty stricken, homeless, or sick people in the city where you live? If so, why don't YOU donate all your disposable time and money to help them? Maybe people should send tons of threatening mail to you and bang on your door in an attempt to force you to "do the right thing".
If you have the money and the time to surf the net and post on/., you could be out in the real world helping people. Put your money where your mouth is. If you are not willing to do that, then S.T.F.U.
The guy is not a shithead. Excepting children unfortunate enough to have HIV passed on to them from birth, the virus is largely spread through irresponsible behavior. So why is this guy now responsible for cleaning up someone else's mess? Although possibly incurable, HIV is mostly preventable. People should take care of themselves.
I don't have to live with it. I can live without it. If and when this goes down, I'll throw the computer in the trash, smash my TV with a sledgehammer, and swear off of media for the remainder of my years. I'll entertain myself the way humans have for millenia --- climb into bed with someone you love. DRM THAT motherfuckers!!!
The US started banning books a long time ago. Ever hear of Willhelm Reich? If not, google for him and discover a tiny but despicable slice of American History.
What sucks is that people get accustomed to doing things the Microsoft way. Let me illustrate with an example.
I have to communicate some textual data --- a small amount (less than a page) --- to a company. This company has hired a team of developers to produce a 50MB program to enter this data into their system. In order to use the program, I have to install a database and the.NET framework. Only then will I be allowed to upload this data.
This, IMHO, is more along the lines of what the author is getting at. We should not be bitching about Microsoft VS Linux. We should be bitching that after decades of computing, we still haven't settled upon some kind of standard by which to communicate a mouthful of data in a form which everyone is capable of reading and editing.
In an age where we discuss quantum computing and space travel, this state of affairs is absolutely disgraceful.
The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest--
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
Darwinism:
That survivors survive.
Not every musician signed up for the RIAA, and not everyone who did is owned by them. Frank Zappa and Prince manage to extricate themselves from the tentacles of the mega-corporations. In addition to those two, I also listen to FOETUS who is in complete charge of his music and gets every dime I spend on it. I attend concerts and buy direct from artists who own the rights to their material. Other artists are starting to catch on.
I'll preface what I have to say with the following:
I don't download or traffic in copyrighted music for free, nor do I sell it to others.
Not because it's against the law, or because I'm concerned for corporate pricks that think we should pay for the very air we breathe. I pay for my music because I think it is right and proper to recompense my favorite musicians for producing music that brings a smile to my face, or makes me want to bang my head, whatever the case may be.
That being said, the government in my country (the USA) and the mega-corporations need to sit back and drink a nice big cup of S.T.F.U. as it slowly dawns on them that I, the taxpayer and purchaser of their wares pay for their room and board, and that they need me more than I need them.
I disagree: an angle consists of two rays. Then say something about congruence of angles and right angles, then establish a scale for angle measure. What's so hard about that?
It's no worse than discussing logarithms, non-rational exponents, or the real numbers themselves in a high school algebra course. Understanding these topics cannot be achieved without learning calculus.
You are missing the point. The point is that most users don't know how to deal with rounding errors. How about this experiment? Take two dozen high school algebra students who are comfortable with basic (not necessarily BASIC) computer programming, algebra, and the quadratic formula. Ask them to write a program that implements the formula given the three coefficients of a quadratic polynomial. How would you do it? HINT: the answer is not to grind through the usual quadratic formula.
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Going way off topic here, but...
it depends on what you mean by "like" a circle. When examined from the perspective of group theory, the more sides the n-gon, the more like a circle --- where "more like" means greater cardinality of the symmetry group.
By using their roads you agree to abide by their rules.
... whose roads? Oh, the roads the taxpayers (myself included) paid for (and continue to pay for).
Excuse me
Nothing prohibits you from making your own roads and doing whatever the heck you please on them at whatever speeds you like.
Oh, like murdering people on them, or driving on them at high speed from a bank robbery. Yup. Why I could just pull over on MY ROAD and stick my tongue out at the law man. Get real.
If you aren't trolling, and want to see some ligitimate arguments against this government intrusion, read a little further down the thread.
However, one has the right to be secure in there person and property, so devices like this cannot be required to be installed in ones' home without a court order.
And no one would EVER dream of changing the law so as to require the installation of cameras in your home, right? I mean, our government representatives are the GOOD GUYS. Aren't they?
Answer me this --- Just who would be in charge of monitoring this data? Would it be farmed out to some corporation, who could serve advertisements? Or maybe a terrorist/serial killer/psychopath could get access to this data and track his targets. Yeah. The possibilities are endless. This is a bad, bad, bad idea.
Also, there's a big difference between tracking you when you're in a public space (like a road) and installing a camera into your home so policemen can watch you jack off.
And there's my beef: the slippery slope. If we let this fly, watch the "big difference" between them disappear. It isn't anyone's GOD DAMNED business when and where I go. I like to keep it that way.
Why stop there? I'd be willing to pay more taxes so that the government could install surveillance cameras in every room of every citizen's home. It would help with illegal drug usage, private gambling, prostitution, wife-beating, child molestation, and a whole host of other problems. If you don't have anything to hide you really shouldn't be against it. The possibilities are limitless.
How is this Bring Radical an algebraic function? It's defined as an analytic extension of an infinite series.
See, that's what it comes down to. It's always the other guy who needs to devote his life/time/money/etc. to save the world. But not you, huh? It's a little too inconvenient to give up your addiction to automobiles, right? Why, I'll bet you haven't even donated any money to AIDS research or to AIDS victims.
Well, I'm sorry that you misinterpreted what I said. When I said people should take care of themselves, I meant prevention, not cure. I certainly did not mean to imply that victims of AIDS deserve no help. Rather, that people should actively stay away from dangerous situations so that they avoid contracting it to begin with.
I also have no problem with pointing out the hypocrisy of those who complain that others don't do enough to help, when almost certainly they themselves could do more to help.
No. You are putting words in my mouth. Go back and find where I said people deserve no pity. If someone wants to help them, I have no problem with that. Likewise --- and here is the point --- if someone chooses NOT to help them, I have no problem with that either. For otherwise, I should spend most of my time and energies helping other people. Who here is willing to go that far? No one, I'll wager.
There is a difference between giving of your own free will, and being coerced to give. It is hypocritical to berate someone for not helping if you don't do everything you can to help. If you are so concerned about the welfare of others, go to the poorest part of your town, pick up some destitute soul, and invite them to your home to sup. Go on. Get to it.
I anticipated this type of response. That is why I said LARGELY spread, rather than EXCLUSIVELY spread. Thousands of people die a year in the US from automobile collisions. Do you have an automobile? If so, why not get rid of it? Maybe you've never seen a loved one mangled in a car crash. Mention you won't waste any tears for them, because you have a right to drive.
Let me ask you this: Do you have any disposable income? And, is there any poverty stricken, homeless, or sick people in the city where you live? If so, why don't YOU donate all your disposable time and money to help them? Maybe people should send tons of threatening mail to you and bang on your door in an attempt to force you to "do the right thing".
/., you could be out in the real world helping people. Put your money where your mouth is. If you are not willing to do that, then S.T.F.U.
If you have the money and the time to surf the net and post on
The guy is not a shithead. Excepting children unfortunate enough to have HIV passed on to them from birth, the virus is largely spread through irresponsible behavior. So why is this guy now responsible for cleaning up someone else's mess? Although possibly incurable, HIV is mostly preventable. People should take care of themselves.
I don't have to live with it. I can live without it. If and when this goes down, I'll throw the computer in the trash, smash my TV with a sledgehammer, and swear off of media for the remainder of my years. I'll entertain myself the way humans have for millenia --- climb into bed with someone you love. DRM THAT motherfuckers!!!
The US is going to start banning books
The US started banning books a long time ago. Ever hear of Willhelm Reich? If not, google for him and discover a tiny but despicable slice of American History.
The cup of humanity runneth over. We are a (deservedly) doomed species.
What sucks is that people get accustomed to doing things the Microsoft way. Let me illustrate with an example.
.NET framework. Only then will I be allowed to upload this data.
I have to communicate some textual data --- a small amount (less than a page) --- to a company. This company has hired a team of developers to produce a 50MB program to enter this data into their system. In order to use the program, I have to install a database and the
This, IMHO, is more along the lines of what the author is getting at. We should not be bitching about Microsoft VS Linux. We should be bitching that after decades of computing, we still haven't settled upon some kind of standard by which to communicate a mouthful of data in a form which everyone is capable of reading and editing.
In an age where we discuss quantum computing and space travel, this state of affairs is absolutely disgraceful.
The fittest survive.
What is meant by the fittest?
Not the strongest; not the cleverest--
Weakness and stupidity everywhere survive.
There is no way of determining fitness except in that a thing does survive.
"Fitness," then, is only another name for "survival."
Darwinism:
That survivors survive.
--- Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned
people should not procreate until they can afford their offspring
I've noticed that the global trend seems to be that the number of offspring produced by a couple is inversely proportional to their income.
Not every musician signed up for the RIAA, and not everyone who did is owned by them. Frank Zappa and Prince manage to extricate themselves from the tentacles of the mega-corporations. In addition to those two, I also listen to FOETUS who is in complete charge of his music and gets every dime I spend on it. I attend concerts and buy direct from artists who own the rights to their material. Other artists are starting to catch on.
I'll preface what I have to say with the following:
I don't download or traffic in copyrighted music for free, nor do I sell it to others.
Not because it's against the law, or because I'm concerned for corporate pricks that think we should pay for the very air we breathe. I pay for my music because I think it is right and proper to recompense my favorite musicians for producing music that brings a smile to my face, or makes me want to bang my head, whatever the case may be.
That being said, the government in my country (the USA) and the mega-corporations need to sit back and drink a nice big cup of S.T.F.U. as it slowly dawns on them that I, the taxpayer and purchaser of their wares pay for their room and board, and that they need me more than I need them.
I disagree: an angle consists of two rays. Then say something about congruence of angles and right angles, then establish a scale for angle measure. What's so hard about that?
No, the correct answer to the problem as stated is still 10000000.00000001. If these numbers were measurements then I would concede your point.
It's no worse than discussing logarithms, non-rational exponents, or the real numbers themselves in a high school algebra course. Understanding these topics cannot be achieved without learning calculus.
You are missing the point. The point is that most users don't know how to deal with rounding errors. How about this experiment? Take two dozen high school algebra students who are comfortable with basic (not necessarily BASIC) computer programming, algebra, and the quadratic formula. Ask them to write a program that implements the formula given the three coefficients of a quadratic polynomial. How would you do it? HINT: the answer is not to grind through the usual quadratic formula.