I agree. WAY too many people are listening to iPods turned up to 11 on earbuds. I cannot imagine this is "good for them".
high freq is the first to go, so a distorted high end combined with a loss of any real soundstage (which is compounded by turning the LA2A compressors up to max to pump the sound even more at mastering) feeds the material effect of the sound for the sociological issues described in TFA.
In 30 years, when the oil's gone and hordes of cannibalistic zombies wander the ruins of Western Civilisation, these young punks will be easy pickins. Deaf as posts, obese, incapable of complex or convoluted thought, lazy, self absorbed, crybabies with a massive bolt of self-entitlement. Yep. They won't be able to feed themselves and will either join the zombie hordes or be eaten by them.
All thanks to the iPod and the Xbox.
Yep yep, I tell ya. Things just haven't been right since the Coolidge Administration. Zombie hordes back then? Fuck - we'd hear 'em from MILES away...
ghmgnghnhgmghhngmhngmhnmghng...
The sound of zombies. Heck - we'd just sit on our porch with a shovel and beat the fucking crap out of them. None of this "Oh, I'm sorry, did that hurt?"" No way. It's more like "I'M (smack!) GIVING (smack!) YOU (smack!) THE (smack!) BEATING (smack!) YOUR (smack!) MOMMY (smack!) AND (smack!) DADDY (smack!) NEVER (smack!) GAVE (smack!) YOU, (smack!)YOU (smack!) STUPID (smack!) FAT (smack!) FUCK! (smack!)(smack!)(smack!)
Yep. THAT would teach them fat zombie fucks a thing or two.
S, if you wanna do something for the future that's REALLY worth doing, do this to your kids:
1. DON'T be their friend. Be their PARENT. And sometimes the parent has to be the avatar of the kid's bad karma. Punishment is good when doled out judiciously and without mercy.
2. Take away the iPod. They want to listen to music? They listen over speakers and at a reasonable volume, because they have to live with others.
3. Get rid of your TV set.
4. Read books, and have your kids read books.
5. Teach them how to grow food gardens.
6. Teach them how to play an acoustic instrument.
7. Teach them to be as good as their word and to not lie. Ever. Their word must be their bond and they must be held accountable. No excuses.
Apple wants the iPhone to Rule The Roost. It's going to happen through apps, so they need to straighten this mess out RIGHT NOW.
Having worked there for several years, I would suspect someone's ass is already on the line and 4 months from now this will be "fixed".
Frankly, I think software isn't the iPhones biggest problem, but hardware. No photo, no video, etc. Panasonic has a phone that kicks the iPhone up and down the stairs.
And the results are (assumed that you are 2000km from impact - if it hit it would be in the ocean...)
Your Inputs:
Distance from Impact: 2000.00 km = 1242.00 miles
Projectile Diameter: 30.00 m = 98.40 ft = 0.02 miles
Projectile Density: 8000 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 17.00 km/s = 10.56 miles/s
Impact Angle: 90 degrees
Target Density: 1000 kg/m3
Target Type: Liquid Water of depth 100.00 meters, over typical rock.
Energy:
Energy before atmospheric entry: 1.63 x 1016 Joules = 3.90 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 314.0 years
Atmospheric Entry:
The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 14100 meters = 46100 ft
The projectile reaches the ground in a broken condition. The mass of projectile strikes the surface at velocity 10.8 km/s = 6.7 miles/s
The impact energy is 6.58 x 1015 Joules = 1.57 MegaTons.
The broken projectile fragments strike the ground in an ellipse of dimension 0.151 km by 0.151 km
Major Global Changes:
The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
The impact does not make a noticeable change in the Earth's rotation period or the tilt of its axis.
The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.
Crater Dimensions:
What does this mean?
The crater opened in the water has a diameter of 1.4 km = 0.866 miles
For the crater formed in the seafloor:
Crater shape is normal in spite of atmospheric crushing; fragments are not significantly dispersed.
Transient Crater Diameter: 670 m = 2200 ft
Transient Crater Depth: 237 m = 777 ft
Final Crater Diameter: 837 m = 2750 ft
Final Crater Depth: 179 m = 586 ft
The crater formed is a simple crater
The floor of the crater is underlain by a lens of broken rock debris (breccia) with a maximum thickness of 82.8 m = 272 ft.
At this impact velocity (
Thermal Radiation:
What does this mean?
At this impact velocity (
Seismic Effects:
What does this mean?
The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 400 seconds.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 4.4
Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 2000 km:
Nothing would be felt. However, seismic equipment may still detect the shaking.
My gimungus hard drive filled with music and movies can be duped in a matter of hours, if that.
Downloading audio files is a waste of time. It is much more efficient to bring your drive to a friend's house and copy it all en masse, and then weed it out as you go. Especially now that I and my buddies have all migrated to FLAC which sounds WAY better.
Same with movies. Any digital data.
file sharing was cool back when drive space was expensive and DSL/cable held a comparative advantage. That is no longer the case.
Online is only useful as a streaming system, such as somafm.com or pandora or NPR or WFMU or whatever. Choking online won't stop the bleeding.
But the information age isn't going to survive a whole lot beyond the age of fossil fuels.
Why?
1. the physical components of IT are often made of oil or natgas.
2. the energy density and physical quality of oil makes it the best fuel and one of the best sources for a vast variety of materials.
3. the environmental demands for IT are extra-ordinary - from clean rooms to high intensity lasers - it requires insane amounts of energy and truly peculiar materials native to fossil fuels.
4. the economic requirements are based in commodity functions, like economies of scale. No one is going to cut a half dozen wafers of silicon a year and make a profit. Contemporary IT requires a commodity based industrialism, and industrialism is what is destroying the planet.
5. The typical economic response is "substitution" but there is no equivalent substitution for petroleum in terms of energy density and convenience on one end and the ability to easily make long polymers on the other.
6. Then we have to contend with Peak Everything. Copper is in very low densities of kg per tonne. Aluminium requires massive amounts of energy to blast out of bauxite, and is otherwise in too low a concentration. Tin is weak, and all these monitors require Indium which isn't exactly plentiful. Sometime this century, most of our metals will peak out.
We can go on and on about wind power, or nuclear, or solar or whatever. So far, for all the wind power we can generate (and I've been to altamont - I've seen the towers) we have yet to have a windmill make a windmill. Because it can't. Energy is not materials, and technology is not energy. We have yet to see a set of solar panels build another set of solar panels.
We HAVE seen the petroleum age reproduce itself over and over. In the 1920s, the energy return on energy invested for petroleum was 100:1 -one barrel of oil could produce 100 barrels of oil from the ground. Now we're around 10:1 and falling rapidly. At 1:1 it doesn't matter how much is in the ground. you'll leave it there because it's not energetically worth pumping up.
And you're not going to grind up the forests to make plastics and energy to smelt bauxite because people are going to be ripping down the forests to keep from freezing to death in the winter.
Sorry folks. It is a sad and poignant thing to think that there will be some development of technology because in 20 years, the ERoEI on oil will be close to 1:1, and there won't be enough alternative energy infrastructure to keep the happy motoring culture rolling or the 3000 mile Caesar Salads, or the plethora of iPods and computers and phones and TVs and whatever other gizmo gets crapped out to keep people distracted and in their places as happy consumers.
Of course, some technopositivist will bang me down as a Troll, but I'm actually not a troll at all. I'm simply calling it as I see it, and I've been studying this stuff for well over 15 years now. It has me VERY depressed half the time, and I don't sit here saying these things because it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
It's just that facts are facts. You can't live outside the laws of thermodynamics. we found almost 3 trillion barrels of black gold and we've pissed it away on war machines, entertainment, building a gigantic population that is deeply into overshoot and is dependent on a resource about to vanish from the market.
Don't worry about a humungus pile of digital information. I would worry about keeping BASIC information, like how to make soap at home, and candles out of fat, and keeping it in a form that won't disappear when Microsoft deems it worthy of DRM.
You see them all the time on the (short) bus. They like to read, but they always re aloud to themselves. I wonder if the author's guild is going to jail a bunch of those kids. That'll make some GREAT TV.
HE WAS READING CAT IN THE HAT!!! ALOUD!!! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!
Or afternoon reading sessions at libraries...
Volunteer book reader: "OK Kids - today we're going to read one of my favourites... Ready? OK! It goes like this...
One fish
Two fish
Red fish
blue fish..."
(BLAMMO!!!! - the door is blasted off its hinges)
Stormtroopers barge in.
"OK LADY!!!! FACE ON THE FLOOR!!! EVERYBODY DOWN AND SHUT UP!!! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR VIOLATING COPYRIGHT WITH THE AUTHORS GUILD!!! TAKE HER AWAY BOYS!!!!"
She is kept in a squatting position for days in a transport plane, shuttled between one hellhole outpost of the American empire to another. She is ordered to form a naked pyramid with the folks at EFF and Pirate Bay. Eventually she confesses and realises she truly loves Big Brother. By surrendering her autonomy to financial interests she doesn't care what she remembers...she's entertained...
A guy who was laid off from where I once worked many years ago (when bandwidth was precious) sent out a note to everyone saying "thank you for being great co-workers" etc and so on. And then he said, "and the attached JPEG is for the drooling retards running this company. when you downloaded it, it was enormous. I forget how big. giant. and so you had to zoom way the hell out to see it was "FUCK YOU" in red letters on a bright green background. I think the typeface was Futura Black, which seemed prophetic, considering he was homeless 6 months later.
Yes it is, if you are talking to a police officer involved with an investigation. It can be construed as "impeding investigation" or "impeding police business". They were investigating her, so, her lies were directly impeding their ability to get to the bottom of the story.
I'm an old fart, and I do think "kids today" are dumber than they were just 10 years ago (I'm in education, so I get to see the trend over time - it's not pretty...) but I've seen that Kansas test before and it has problems.
What is more important is not being able to remember all the crap in it, but knowing how to find out. In today's world, I just search on the exam and get the answers, HERE.
What is important is not knowing things, but knowing how to find out and what to do with the information when you get it.
That said, I have noticed a marked (general) decrease in student abilities to reason, and an equal increase in a kind of fucked up sense of entitlement. There are always exceptions - there are always brilliant hard working kids - but the number of dopey bimbos and brainless douchebags has multiplied wildly in even just the past 5 years. Those kids are fucked. They need to know how to figure things out, how to logically suss out a problem. Now they just whine because they can't do facebook during my lecture...
So that's what they're aiming for these days? A dystopian future? Well, at least the architects are catching on to the trend our government's been setting.
Yeah - 'cuz the trend the government's been setting is in dead lockstep with the one established by its owners, private industry.
The Democratic House and Senate, which is in the pocket of the Entertainment Branch of the Ideological State Apparatus, will do its best to smother internet radio in its crib. Look for filth like Feinstein to lead the charge.
I do not say this with great glee - I voted for Obama et al. But I do understand the limitations and contradictions of the Democratic Party. They will try to muzzle it and kill it, and if it won't die, then they will try to put a meter on it.
but I would like to articulate something that I do believe expresses my feeling and the feelings of many other people on this little green planet of books in regard to the Author's Guild and their lawsuit per the article,
Anyone with half an ounce of sense knows it will never happen, for oh-so-many reasons.
That he proposed this Singularity University is just the latest moment in his diefication of technology. He needs a brueaucratic infrastructure to maintain the illusion of the viability of the source of his casuistry. This is straight out of "Techgnosis" by Davis.
It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and wasteful of resources.
I now have almost 200gigs of music. There's only so much I can listen. also, when I want "new" or "more" I just bring my drive over to a friend's house and bingo - a year's worth of downloads in what, 5 minutes?
LAN parties are even better - more productive and a greater selection.
Yes, but if you take the best tea leaves and boil them in a combination of mud, propylene glycol, and poo, it doesn't matter how good the leaves are - you still have a toxic stinky mess.
Yeah. Right. Then explain why they were about to put Slumgdog Millionaires out to pasture on DVD until word got out that it was getting serious Oscar attention?
Your post is the typical ignorant apology for Business As Usual we hear sheeple bleat every other day.
Your theory leads to hive mind and idiocracy, as one never goes broke underestimating the intelligence or the taste of the average american.
The entertainment industry is one of the single greatest blocks to genuine human progress.
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It took the discourse straight to Hell, you semi-sentient brown-nosing hypocritical piece of illiterate chatterbot droppings. You fail the Turing test. I spit in the general direction of you and everyone who looks like you. Do you still abuse sexually immature simians, you evolutionarily backwards deviant ? I would tell you to fuck off, but that mental image is too disturbing to entertain.
For ruining this fine thread with your insane drivel, pond scum would recoil from calling you brother. The things Lovecraft dreamed of would be afraid to see the twisted mass of blood-sucking tentacles that is your mind. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on your necrotic soul, for not even those bound for the Pit deserve to bear your presence for all eternity.
You are filth. You are excrement. You are Ralph Spoilsport, Slashdot user 673134, and from the depths of cyberspace I stab at thee !
What horrible absurdity. This POS just hurts in so many different ways. They shitcan THOUSANDS of people, but the douchebag retards who coughed up this furball of an app got to see their app make the light of day.
Only proves what a friend told me: the only justice in this life is poetic...
First, adults abuse drugs and alcohol, so that's not really something that kids do, but something that humans do.
Adults drink for different reasons. For being responsible for a shattered marriage, spawning a tribe of stupid kids, betraying their dreams and ideals, etc. Also, adults drink to forget - how the priest fucked them in the ass ever Saturday afternoon, how their parents beat them, first grade, dancing lessons, whatever...
Kids drink to get fucked up and to release inhibitions - i.e., to rebel, but in a way that is not revolutionary. If anything, it is counter-revolutionary and a way to conform to the dysfunctions of contemporary social organisation.
Then there are adults who drink to get fucked up and release inhibitions. We call them CRAZY MuthaFUCKAZZZ.
Second, using the words that they know adults don't want them to say is important. Critically important.
OK SO LIKE FUCK YOU HOMIE! NO NEOTWORK EXEC FAGATOH COULD BHANDLEW FUCEN RALFEEE! I W(OUDL DOGGI EBAG SOME WHOARS AN DPUSH THEM A$#OUND WITH MY DICK LI A FUCEN WHEELBARORWO AN DMAKE THOSE SLAPHOELS LIKKKK IT! IT WOODL BE LARBLE TV!
Now, let's see - how far did that further the discourse?
Thanks for trying, but you're part of the problem.
On the contrary....
I always wince when I read some of this ageist nonsense. At what age does unpopular speech become valid?
It's not unpopular speech that is the issue, it is clear thinking which is only understood throguh the signifiers of language. Fuzzy signifiers == fuzzy thinking.
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high freq is the first to go, so a distorted high end combined with a loss of any real soundstage (which is compounded by turning the LA2A compressors up to max to pump the sound even more at mastering) feeds the material effect of the sound for the sociological issues described in TFA.
In 30 years, when the oil's gone and hordes of cannibalistic zombies wander the ruins of Western Civilisation, these young punks will be easy pickins. Deaf as posts, obese, incapable of complex or convoluted thought, lazy, self absorbed, crybabies with a massive bolt of self-entitlement. Yep. They won't be able to feed themselves and will either join the zombie hordes or be eaten by them.
All thanks to the iPod and the Xbox.
Yep yep, I tell ya. Things just haven't been right since the Coolidge Administration. Zombie hordes back then? Fuck - we'd hear 'em from MILES away...
ghmgnghnhgmghhngmhngmhnmghng...
The sound of zombies. Heck - we'd just sit on our porch with a shovel and beat the fucking crap out of them. None of this "Oh, I'm sorry, did that hurt?"" No way. It's more like "I'M (smack!) GIVING (smack!) YOU (smack!) THE (smack!) BEATING (smack!) YOUR (smack!) MOMMY (smack!) AND (smack!) DADDY (smack!) NEVER (smack!) GAVE (smack!) YOU, (smack!)YOU (smack!) STUPID (smack!) FAT (smack!) FUCK! (smack!)(smack!)(smack!)
Yep. THAT would teach them fat zombie fucks a thing or two.
S, if you wanna do something for the future that's REALLY worth doing, do this to your kids:
1. DON'T be their friend. Be their PARENT. And sometimes the parent has to be the avatar of the kid's bad karma. Punishment is good when doled out judiciously and without mercy.
2. Take away the iPod. They want to listen to music? They listen over speakers and at a reasonable volume, because they have to live with others.
3. Get rid of your TV set.
4. Read books, and have your kids read books.
5. Teach them how to grow food gardens.
6. Teach them how to play an acoustic instrument.
7. Teach them to be as good as their word and to not lie. Ever. Their word must be their bond and they must be held accountable. No excuses.
That's a start.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
RS
called "cranio-rectal inversion".
Having worked there for several years, I would suspect someone's ass is already on the line and 4 months from now this will be "fixed".
Frankly, I think software isn't the iPhones biggest problem, but hardware. No photo, no video, etc. Panasonic has a phone that kicks the iPhone up and down the stairs.
RS
http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/impacteffects/
And the results are (assumed that you are 2000km from impact - if it hit it would be in the ocean...)
Your Inputs: Distance from Impact: 2000.00 km = 1242.00 miles
Projectile Diameter: 30.00 m = 98.40 ft = 0.02 miles
Projectile Density: 8000 kg/m3
Impact Velocity: 17.00 km/s = 10.56 miles/s
Impact Angle: 90 degrees
Target Density: 1000 kg/m3
Target Type: Liquid Water of depth 100.00
meters, over typical rock.
Energy: Energy before atmospheric entry: 1.63 x 1016 Joules = 3.90 MegaTons TNT
The average interval between impacts of this size somewhere on Earth is 314.0 years
Atmospheric Entry: The projectile begins to breakup at an altitude of 14100 meters = 46100 ft
The projectile reaches the ground in a broken condition. The mass of projectile strikes the surface at velocity 10.8 km/s = 6.7 miles/s The impact energy is 6.58 x 1015 Joules = 1.57 MegaTons.
The broken projectile fragments strike the ground in an ellipse of dimension 0.151 km by 0.151 km
Major Global Changes: The Earth is not strongly disturbed by the impact and loses negligible mass.
The impact does not make a noticeable change in the Earth's rotation period or the tilt of its axis.
The impact does not shift the Earth's orbit noticeably.
Crater Dimensions:
What does this mean?
The crater opened in the water has a diameter of 1.4 km = 0.866 miles
For the crater formed in the seafloor: Crater shape is normal in spite of atmospheric crushing; fragments are not significantly dispersed.
Transient Crater Diameter: 670 m = 2200 ft
Transient Crater Depth: 237 m = 777 ft
Final Crater Diameter: 837 m = 2750 ft
Final Crater Depth: 179 m = 586 ft
The crater formed is a simple crater
The floor of the crater is underlain by a lens of broken rock debris (breccia) with a maximum thickness of 82.8 m = 272 ft.
At this impact velocity ( Thermal Radiation: What does this mean?
At this impact velocity ( Seismic Effects: What does this mean?
The major seismic shaking will arrive at approximately 400 seconds.
Richter Scale Magnitude: 4.4
Mercalli Scale Intensity at a distance of 2000 km:
Nothing would be felt. However, seismic equipment may still detect the shaking.
Downloading audio files is a waste of time. It is much more efficient to bring your drive to a friend's house and copy it all en masse, and then weed it out as you go. Especially now that I and my buddies have all migrated to FLAC which sounds WAY better.
Same with movies. Any digital data.
file sharing was cool back when drive space was expensive and DSL/cable held a comparative advantage. That is no longer the case.
Online is only useful as a streaming system, such as somafm.com or pandora or NPR or WFMU or whatever. Choking online won't stop the bleeding.
RS
Why?
1. the physical components of IT are often made of oil or natgas.
2. the energy density and physical quality of oil makes it the best fuel and one of the best sources for a vast variety of materials.
3. the environmental demands for IT are extra-ordinary - from clean rooms to high intensity lasers - it requires insane amounts of energy and truly peculiar materials native to fossil fuels.
4. the economic requirements are based in commodity functions, like economies of scale. No one is going to cut a half dozen wafers of silicon a year and make a profit. Contemporary IT requires a commodity based industrialism, and industrialism is what is destroying the planet.
5. The typical economic response is "substitution" but there is no equivalent substitution for petroleum in terms of energy density and convenience on one end and the ability to easily make long polymers on the other.
6. Then we have to contend with Peak Everything. Copper is in very low densities of kg per tonne. Aluminium requires massive amounts of energy to blast out of bauxite, and is otherwise in too low a concentration. Tin is weak, and all these monitors require Indium which isn't exactly plentiful. Sometime this century, most of our metals will peak out.
We can go on and on about wind power, or nuclear, or solar or whatever. So far, for all the wind power we can generate (and I've been to altamont - I've seen the towers) we have yet to have a windmill make a windmill. Because it can't. Energy is not materials, and technology is not energy. We have yet to see a set of solar panels build another set of solar panels.
We HAVE seen the petroleum age reproduce itself over and over. In the 1920s, the energy return on energy invested for petroleum was 100:1 -one barrel of oil could produce 100 barrels of oil from the ground. Now we're around 10:1 and falling rapidly. At 1:1 it doesn't matter how much is in the ground. you'll leave it there because it's not energetically worth pumping up.
And you're not going to grind up the forests to make plastics and energy to smelt bauxite because people are going to be ripping down the forests to keep from freezing to death in the winter.
Sorry folks. It is a sad and poignant thing to think that there will be some development of technology because in 20 years, the ERoEI on oil will be close to 1:1, and there won't be enough alternative energy infrastructure to keep the happy motoring culture rolling or the 3000 mile Caesar Salads, or the plethora of iPods and computers and phones and TVs and whatever other gizmo gets crapped out to keep people distracted and in their places as happy consumers.
Of course, some technopositivist will bang me down as a Troll, but I'm actually not a troll at all. I'm simply calling it as I see it, and I've been studying this stuff for well over 15 years now. It has me VERY depressed half the time, and I don't sit here saying these things because it makes me all warm and fuzzy inside.
It's just that facts are facts. You can't live outside the laws of thermodynamics. we found almost 3 trillion barrels of black gold and we've pissed it away on war machines, entertainment, building a gigantic population that is deeply into overshoot and is dependent on a resource about to vanish from the market.
Don't worry about a humungus pile of digital information. I would worry about keeping BASIC information, like how to make soap at home, and candles out of fat, and keeping it in a form that won't disappear when Microsoft deems it worthy of DRM.
RS
HE WAS READING CAT IN THE HAT!!! ALOUD!!! OFF WITH HIS HEAD!!!
Or afternoon reading sessions at libraries...
Volunteer book reader: "OK Kids - today we're going to read one of my favourites... Ready? OK! It goes like this...
One fish
Two fish
Red fish
blue fish..."
(BLAMMO!!!! - the door is blasted off its hinges)
Stormtroopers barge in.
"OK LADY!!!! FACE ON THE FLOOR!!! EVERYBODY DOWN AND SHUT UP!!! YOU'RE UNDER ARREST FOR VIOLATING COPYRIGHT WITH THE AUTHORS GUILD!!! TAKE HER AWAY BOYS!!!!"
She is kept in a squatting position for days in a transport plane, shuttled between one hellhole outpost of the American empire to another. She is ordered to form a naked pyramid with the folks at EFF and Pirate Bay. Eventually she confesses and realises she truly loves Big Brother. By surrendering her autonomy to financial interests she doesn't care what she remembers...she's entertained...
RS
A guy who was laid off from where I once worked many years ago (when bandwidth was precious) sent out a note to everyone saying "thank you for being great co-workers" etc and so on. And then he said, "and the attached JPEG is for the drooling retards running this company. when you downloaded it, it was enormous. I forget how big. giant. and so you had to zoom way the hell out to see it was "FUCK YOU" in red letters on a bright green background. I think the typeface was Futura Black, which seemed prophetic, considering he was homeless 6 months later.
She doesn't have to be accused of a crime to impede a police investigation. Thanks for for playing.
Yes it is, if you are talking to a police officer involved with an investigation. It can be construed as "impeding investigation" or "impeding police business". They were investigating her, so, her lies were directly impeding their ability to get to the bottom of the story.
What is more important is not being able to remember all the crap in it, but knowing how to find out. In today's world, I just search on the exam and get the answers, HERE.
What is important is not knowing things, but knowing how to find out and what to do with the information when you get it.
That said, I have noticed a marked (general) decrease in student abilities to reason, and an equal increase in a kind of fucked up sense of entitlement. There are always exceptions - there are always brilliant hard working kids - but the number of dopey bimbos and brainless douchebags has multiplied wildly in even just the past 5 years. Those kids are fucked. They need to know how to figure things out, how to logically suss out a problem. Now they just whine because they can't do facebook during my lecture...
Argh.
RS
Yeah - 'cuz the trend the government's been setting is in dead lockstep with the one established by its owners, private industry.
RS
I do not say this with great glee - I voted for Obama et al. But I do understand the limitations and contradictions of the Democratic Party. They will try to muzzle it and kill it, and if it won't die, then they will try to put a meter on it.
Mark my words on this.
RS
I don't see anything worth the effort or expense of putting together a BeOS/Haiku box.
Kill research on a Mars mission and find out more about the universe in general before the resources run out. Kill the Mars mission and fund the rest.
RS
and that sentiment is:
FUCK OFF, YOU GREEDY STUPID ASSHOLES!
have a nice day.
RS
That said, autotune is the oldschool. Melodyne is the Real Deal and it kicks ass. Direct note Access is freakin' nuts.
RS
Anyone with half an ounce of sense knows it will never happen, for oh-so-many reasons.
That he proposed this Singularity University is just the latest moment in his diefication of technology. He needs a brueaucratic infrastructure to maintain the illusion of the viability of the source of his casuistry. This is straight out of "Techgnosis" by Davis.
It would be funny if it wasn't so pathetic and wasteful of resources.
RS
LAN parties are even better - more productive and a greater selection.
RS
and an older model than Rachel. So, IIRC, he shouldn't have survived much beyond his job taking out Roy and his crew.
Yes, but if you take the best tea leaves and boil them in a combination of mud, propylene glycol, and poo, it doesn't matter how good the leaves are - you still have a toxic stinky mess.
Your post is the typical ignorant apology for Business As Usual we hear sheeple bleat every other day.
Your theory leads to hive mind and idiocracy, as one never goes broke underestimating the intelligence or the taste of the average american.
The entertainment industry is one of the single greatest blocks to genuine human progress.
RS
For ruining this fine thread with your insane drivel, pond scum would recoil from calling you brother. The things Lovecraft dreamed of would be afraid to see the twisted mass of blood-sucking tentacles that is your mind. May the Flying Spaghetti Monster have mercy on your necrotic soul, for not even those bound for the Pit deserve to bear your presence for all eternity.
You are filth. You are excrement. You are Ralph Spoilsport, Slashdot user 673134, and from the depths of cyberspace I stab at thee !
BROTHER!!!! WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN???
U B way OK in my book. You get the jokes...
RS
Only proves what a friend told me: the only justice in this life is poetic...
First, adults abuse drugs and alcohol, so that's not really something that kids do, but something that humans do.
Adults drink for different reasons. For being responsible for a shattered marriage, spawning a tribe of stupid kids, betraying their dreams and ideals, etc. Also, adults drink to forget - how the priest fucked them in the ass ever Saturday afternoon, how their parents beat them, first grade, dancing lessons, whatever...
Kids drink to get fucked up and to release inhibitions - i.e., to rebel, but in a way that is not revolutionary. If anything, it is counter-revolutionary and a way to conform to the dysfunctions of contemporary social organisation.
Then there are adults who drink to get fucked up and release inhibitions. We call them CRAZY MuthaFUCKAZZZ.
Second, using the words that they know adults don't want them to say is important. Critically important.
OK SO LIKE FUCK YOU HOMIE! NO NEOTWORK EXEC FAGATOH COULD BHANDLEW FUCEN RALFEEE! I W(OUDL DOGGI EBAG SOME WHOARS AN DPUSH THEM A$#OUND WITH MY DICK LI A FUCEN WHEELBARORWO AN DMAKE THOSE SLAPHOELS LIKKKK IT! IT WOODL BE LARBLE TV!
Now, let's see - how far did that further the discourse?
Thanks for trying, but you're part of the problem.
On the contrary....
I always wince when I read some of this ageist nonsense. At what age does unpopular speech become valid?
It's not unpopular speech that is the issue, it is clear thinking which is only understood throguh the signifiers of language. Fuzzy signifiers == fuzzy thinking.
I hope you appreciate my sense of humour ...
RS