Act interested, put them on hold for 5 minutes. Act interested again, put them on hold for another 5 minutes. Act interested again, put them on hold for another 5 minutes. Then tell them they are suckers and they just wasted 15 minuted of their life on a fruitless venture.
It is fun, rewarding, and it hurts their bottom line.
Weren't those terms (incubi, succubi) used during the middle/early modern ages by various inquisitions that ravaged Europe?
I think those words came along much later than the virgin mary myth. The compelling idea of a virgin mary undoubtedly helped fuel support for heretic/witch trials, where inquisitors invented all kinds of new evils. Some seriously fucked up stuff came out of the 15th and 16th century inquisitions, many of them presenting obvious hyposcrisy...
Damn dude. You must really hate kids. I don't have any, but I like it when my co-wirkers bring their kids in. We have rubber band fights, I show them how to pop open a CD-ROM unit with a paper clip, and we'll blow $10 on the vending machines then get sugar rushes. It's a great excuse not to work! Another perk, when they are my bosses kids, I get all kinds of dirt on him about his homelife cause kids will say just about anything...
Yes it does. Think about it, the sorting costs, transportation costs, the energy requried to melt it down then reform it, it simply costs more. I don't remember who i linked too, I think it was that Penn and Teller show that explains how fucked up recycling is.
Recycling merely allows people to feel good about all the trash they make because they are too lazsy to actually re-use things like bottles and plastic bags. In poor countries (Mexico, China, and throughout Africa for example), people don't have enough money to just throw everything away, they do REAL recycling (i.e. re-using the container rather than melting it down and forming a new one).
Why don't you provide some support for your own claim that is costs less to recycle?
"Wobbles in the orbit of Mars are the main cause of its climate change in the current era," Oxford's Wilson explained. (Related: "Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says" [September 13, 2006].)
All planets experience a few wobbles as they make their journey around the sun. Earth's wobbles are known as Milankovitch cycles and occur on time scales of between 20,000 and 100,000 years.
If Mars' wobbles take anywhere near the time earth's wobbles take, we may be able to expect a long term (200-1000 years period) correlation between temperature and axis wobble on the planets. However, I would not expect to see things correllating on a yearly basis on a dramatic scale like we are seeing. If the Russian scientist has real data that supports his claim, I might jump aboard.
I am not impressed with "climate scientists" in general. I think a large percentage of them (on both sides of the debate) are looking for fat salaries and grants. It is a fad, it will die out, and those people will change to new fields.
You are right. But do the people living in rural communities who don't have high speed access, understand how beneficial the net can be?
Before I got high speed (~1998) I didn't use the internet for anything other than pissing people off in chat rooms. I got my porn from BBS, and that was about it. If my parents hadn't payed for the high speed net connection, I wouldn't have gotten it for financial reasons.
My aunt and uncle have a farm in pennsylvania and they have high speed, but I had to convince my uncle over a 3 year period (after they had put down the DSL lines in 2002) with persistence to get them to go for it. Most of their neighbors don't even have computers.
Flame me as a city boy or whatever, I don't give a fuck. But if I lived on a quiet farm, and enjoyed my life without the internet, it would be pretty hard to convince me to pass out $50 a month for something I'd never used before.
Farming states are full of people that have no idea what they could use it for and don't think they need it. If people aren't willing to pay for it, and don't need it, why should the government be dumping billions into it? I bet California ranks pretty well up against England and China, but a state like Kansas would lag far behind...
Sagan mentioned it in "Cosmos", some other scientist came up with it in the 1970s. The environmental data collected on 9/12/01 supports the theory.
We make additive for our jet fuel that makes the contrails more reflective to bounce the sun's rays back into space. It's cheap, easy to do, and people won't even notice. If a couple European governments (I know the U.S. won't do it...) required all aircraft that land in their country to use that kind of fuel, I think it could be implemented very quickly.
Cases like this build precedence in support of pirates. If the "industry" wanted to take me to court for piracy, I would use cases like this (among many others) to defend myself. I would also counter-sue for mental distress, lost wages, etc... I think judges would help the little guy if they were confronted with this kind of evidence.
I have received DMCA notices (twice) for files that I hadn't finished downloading. How do I know it's a copyrighted work if I haven't even seen it yet? Even if I do watch it, how am I supposed to know it's copyrighted? If all I'm doing is watching it, why is it my responsibility to make sure everything piece of media I see is properly licensed?
The "industry" tells me it is with the DMCA notice. That is the only way they can prove that I know that it was copyrighted.
The "industry" is hurting themselves with these tactics...
Gorgeous? I dunno about that, but I guess its a mater of opinion...
Regardless, I wish she had given up more photos. The lighting in the "after" photo was really bad and it looks like she is trying to make it look worse than it really is...
You certainly deserve to have your works protected. But to what ends?
The Wintel schema has forced into relying on archaic 1981 architecture. Big business has consistly attempted to thwart OSS developers from making cheaper alternatives to proprietary software. Technology is methodically kept out of the hands of people in developing countries, to protect IPR.
Don't you think it has reached a point where the current patent system is an overall hinderence to innovation, rather than a boon?
The ATMs (aids, tuberculosis, malaria) kill millions (yes, millions!!!) of people every year because they can't afford to pay for the patents over the medicine. These drugs are easily reproducable at cheap enough cost to save the majority of these people.
Where do we draw the line of profit vs. humanitarian concerns?
I'm not saying we should give free medicine to everyone in the third world, but we don't even talk about these things! Instead a lot of us assume the system is fine and anyone who disagrees is against us and therefore evil. WIPO, current IPR schemes, and big business are feeling awfully authoritarian right now. I feel it is not only my personal conviction, but my responsibility as an American, to question (and fight) these power structures.
Why not reform the patent system? Place a limit on profitability, say $100 million dollars per patent... Is that not enough $$$ for you? I know your $160K education was expensive, but have you ever asked why it was so costly? Entrenched interests don't care who lives or dies they; are only interested in staying entrenched.
While you suckle from the tit of the corporate whore, I will do everything I can to rob your mistress. She doesn't deserve our work or our money. And like all whores, she will not hesitate to shit all over us if she gets the chance.
Obviously Bill Gates has no control over the Russian judicial system. However, Gorbachev's appeal is more to show the connection between big business and governments around the world. While it may not do anything legally, it certainly paints M$ iin a bad light (and Putin). This is perhaps our only way of fighting powerful corporate interests. We call out the REAL culprits and hurt their image (and perhaps profits) with an expose. If we want to be successful we have to use the media to fight these companies and their desctructive practices. Of course M$ will try to distance themselves from the case.
If this teacher has the backing of people like Gorbachev, I doubt he will spend any time in a gulag. I am a lot more concerned about the poeple who never make it into the headlines...
What role, if any, do you think Wikipedia should play in education?
The same role as any encyclopedia. As a starting point to find out general information about a subject. Only a retard would cite an encyclopedia on their thesis paper or maybe only as a general introduction to the topic that the paper is on. Something like:
Encyclopedia Britannica (or wiki or whatever) describes trench warfare as.... however recent historical evidence from... and reported by... has surfaced that shows this general understanding is a misconception. In reality trench warfare was...
then you actually use real sources and real research to show and support why the generalization accepted by the majority of the public is wrong.
This is the only way I know of that you can use sources like encyclopedias in an academic paper without receiving a major knock against you. Simply banning wiki is kinda dumb though because it can be a useful tool for stuff like I mentioned and it gives teachers an easy way to see if their students are morons.
Not to mention the link software is actually well designed, and easy to use~
In this respect, I guess you could say that TI is more open-source friendly.
My boss had an HP RPN thingy. I always was like, "Dude, lets play Drug Wars." He'd just look at me like I was a retard.
I can't tell you how many hours I spent making $$ on Drug Wars in high school trig class. Hmmm, maybe thats why I failed calc in college, twice... then retook trig, failed that... then decided I should be a history major instead of CS... now what the hell do I do with this fucking degree? I know! I'll work on computers!
So BVis, what do you think is wrong with you that makes you think this way?
I took the original post to say that these people are not victims. Rather than placing their money in a 401K or bank account, they want to make "easy money" and usually get burned. In my experience, I have found that old people and immigrants (english as a second language) are expecially vulnerable to these schemes, but that doesn't mean anyone is forcing them to pay up. They just need to be smarter with their money. Notice that these two groups are also the most likely to gamble regularly...
So Jidar, what do you think is wrong with you that makes you think BV is "victim blaming?"
Maybe you have spent too much time placing people in "containers" (Webster et. al, any year) based on your preconceptions, rather than actually thinking critically about the point they are trying to make.
Iran is not a nuclear power. It does not even have nuclear power stations. The threat to the world derives from US politicians presenting such countries as a menace in order to be able to launch aggressive wars.
Iran might have a bomb right now, and will have a bomb by the end of the year. They had nuclear power in the 70s but the two plants were shut down; they probably have a few plants now.
Iran will be the only country in the ME besides Israel that have nukes.
Seems like/. has had a higher amount of stories like this than normal the last 6 months or so.
I think people who speak two languages would on average have more mental activity overall than those who only speak one language. If you work out your brain, it will be stronger and you can resist dementia and degradation from old age. If you work out your body, it will be resist health problems and old age.
I was listening to an interesting radio show out here in San Diego yesterday (The Dangerous Dick and Scibba show) and they were talking about the 20K troop increase as a way to get ready to go into Iran (a nuclear power). People were guessing that Bush/Cheney/and company want to try and neutralize the Iranian threat before leaving office. Me thinks this might be related...
I just got a Sony Ericson W810i for $99 from Cingular with a 2 year plan. THe MSRP on this phone is $349. It has a 2M camera that is actually usable (I use the pics for my 1280x1024 desktop background, take 1600x1200 native), an MP3 player and FM reciever, Pro Duo card slot (mine has a 4Gig card - was $80), some pretty cool games available, and it is a good phone to boot. I debranded it with a $12 firmware upgrade so the cingular branding and stuff is less oppressive, but it wasn't bad to begin with. The W810i is a little slow sometimes but not bad at all, much faster than my old Nokia 6620 (was supposed to be the shit two years ago but sucked).
My 810i has everything the iphone is advertising, along with a 2MP camera. I even watch TV shows and porn on it! I just have to convert the video to mp4 or g3 with a simple and fast video convertor. I spent $180 on it counting the 4 gig pro duo card. The case may not look quite as cool as the iphone and it has a smaller screen but it work great.
The ipod was revolutionary in 2001 because it had 30 GB of storage. At the time, the competition did not offer any thing close to the Ipod's capabilities. I don't think the iphone brings anything new to the table like the Ipod did.
Intel Serverboards have had solid caps for over a year...
They've been on the samples we've tested for a while. THe S5000XAL/PAL series uses 'em (among others). Btw, I don't think they use the linked manufacturer, it was just the first pic of one on google.
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Act interested, put them on hold for 5 minutes. Act interested again, put them on hold for another 5 minutes. Act interested again, put them on hold for another 5 minutes. Then tell them they are suckers and they just wasted 15 minuted of their life on a fruitless venture.
It is fun, rewarding, and it hurts their bottom line.
I'm glad someone said it so I didn't have too. My flickr site:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/sdguero
The map thing is still kinda annoying to setup though...
Weren't those terms (incubi, succubi) used during the middle/early modern ages by various inquisitions that ravaged Europe?
I think those words came along much later than the virgin mary myth. The compelling idea of a virgin mary undoubtedly helped fuel support for heretic/witch trials, where inquisitors invented all kinds of new evils. Some seriously fucked up stuff came out of the 15th and 16th century inquisitions, many of them presenting obvious hyposcrisy...
Damn dude. You must really hate kids. I don't have any, but I like it when my co-wirkers bring their kids in. We have rubber band fights, I show them how to pop open a CD-ROM unit with a paper clip, and we'll blow $10 on the vending machines then get sugar rushes. It's a great excuse not to work! Another perk, when they are my bosses kids, I get all kinds of dirt on him about his homelife cause kids will say just about anything...
Yes it does. Think about it, the sorting costs, transportation costs, the energy requried to melt it down then reform it, it simply costs more. I don't remember who i linked too, I think it was that Penn and Teller show that explains how fucked up recycling is.
Recycling merely allows people to feel good about all the trash they make because they are too lazsy to actually re-use things like bottles and plastic bags. In poor countries (Mexico, China, and throughout Africa for example), people don't have enough money to just throw everything away, they do REAL recycling (i.e. re-using the container rather than melting it down and forming a new one).
Why don't you provide some support for your own claim that is costs less to recycle?
"Wobbles in the orbit of Mars are the main cause of its climate change in the current era," Oxford's Wilson explained. (Related: "Don't Blame Sun for Global Warming, Study Says" [September 13, 2006].) All planets experience a few wobbles as they make their journey around the sun. Earth's wobbles are known as Milankovitch cycles and occur on time scales of between 20,000 and 100,000 years. If Mars' wobbles take anywhere near the time earth's wobbles take, we may be able to expect a long term (200-1000 years period) correlation between temperature and axis wobble on the planets. However, I would not expect to see things correllating on a yearly basis on a dramatic scale like we are seeing. If the Russian scientist has real data that supports his claim, I might jump aboard. I am not impressed with "climate scientists" in general. I think a large percentage of them (on both sides of the debate) are looking for fat salaries and grants. It is a fad, it will die out, and those people will change to new fields.
That said, taking care of the environment in general is a good thing. So either way we ought to research renewable energy, keep recycling, etc.
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http://www.sho.com/site/ptbs/prevepisodes.do?epis
It costs more energy to recycle a plastic bottle than to make a new one. Recycling does not help take care of the environment.
You are right. But do the people living in rural communities who don't have high speed access, understand how beneficial the net can be?
Before I got high speed (~1998) I didn't use the internet for anything other than pissing people off in chat rooms. I got my porn from BBS, and that was about it. If my parents hadn't payed for the high speed net connection, I wouldn't have gotten it for financial reasons.
My aunt and uncle have a farm in pennsylvania and they have high speed, but I had to convince my uncle over a 3 year period (after they had put down the DSL lines in 2002) with persistence to get them to go for it. Most of their neighbors don't even have computers.
Flame me as a city boy or whatever, I don't give a fuck. But if I lived on a quiet farm, and enjoyed my life without the internet, it would be pretty hard to convince me to pass out $50 a month for something I'd never used before.
Farming states are full of people that have no idea what they could use it for and don't think they need it. If people aren't willing to pay for it, and don't need it, why should the government be dumping billions into it? I bet California ranks pretty well up against England and China, but a state like Kansas would lag far behind...
Sagan mentioned it in "Cosmos", some other scientist came up with it in the 1970s. The environmental data collected on 9/12/01 supports the theory.
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http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2002/2002-08- 08-contrails.htm
http://why.michaelpatrick.org/2004/12/jet-contrail s-artificial-clouds-affect.html
We make additive for our jet fuel that makes the contrails more reflective to bounce the sun's rays back into space. It's cheap, easy to do, and people won't even notice. If a couple European governments (I know the U.S. won't do it...) required all aircraft that land in their country to use that kind of fuel, I think it could be implemented very quickly.
Here are a few links:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0210/p14s02-sten.ht
He's worked there 12 years, maybe he wanted to leave anyway. What better time than now. Keeps the network in the headlines for a few more days...
Cases like this build precedence in support of pirates. If the "industry" wanted to take me to court for piracy, I would use cases like this (among many others) to defend myself. I would also counter-sue for mental distress, lost wages, etc... I think judges would help the little guy if they were confronted with this kind of evidence.
I have received DMCA notices (twice) for files that I hadn't finished downloading. How do I know it's a copyrighted work if I haven't even seen it yet? Even if I do watch it, how am I supposed to know it's copyrighted? If all I'm doing is watching it, why is it my responsibility to make sure everything piece of media I see is properly licensed?
The "industry" tells me it is with the DMCA notice. That is the only way they can prove that I know that it was copyrighted.
The "industry" is hurting themselves with these tactics...
Gorgeous? I dunno about that, but I guess its a mater of opinion...
Regardless, I wish she had given up more photos. The lighting in the "after" photo was really bad and it looks like she is trying to make it look worse than it really is...
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.religion.scient ology/msg/11d21f1756109be2
You certainly deserve to have your works protected. But to what ends?
The Wintel schema has forced into relying on archaic 1981 architecture. Big business has consistly attempted to thwart OSS developers from making cheaper alternatives to proprietary software. Technology is methodically kept out of the hands of people in developing countries, to protect IPR.
Don't you think it has reached a point where the current patent system is an overall hinderence to innovation, rather than a boon?
The ATMs (aids, tuberculosis, malaria) kill millions (yes, millions!!!) of people every year because they can't afford to pay for the patents over the medicine. These drugs are easily reproducable at cheap enough cost to save the majority of these people.
Where do we draw the line of profit vs. humanitarian concerns?
I'm not saying we should give free medicine to everyone in the third world, but we don't even talk about these things! Instead a lot of us assume the system is fine and anyone who disagrees is against us and therefore evil. WIPO, current IPR schemes, and big business are feeling awfully authoritarian right now. I feel it is not only my personal conviction, but my responsibility as an American, to question (and fight) these power structures.
Why not reform the patent system? Place a limit on profitability, say $100 million dollars per patent... Is that not enough $$$ for you? I know your $160K education was expensive, but have you ever asked why it was so costly? Entrenched interests don't care who lives or dies they; are only interested in staying entrenched.
While you suckle from the tit of the corporate whore, I will do everything I can to rob your mistress. She doesn't deserve our work or our money. And like all whores, she will not hesitate to shit all over us if she gets the chance.
Obviously Bill Gates has no control over the Russian judicial system. However, Gorbachev's appeal is more to show the connection between big business and governments around the world. While it may not do anything legally, it certainly paints M$ iin a bad light (and Putin). This is perhaps our only way of fighting powerful corporate interests. We call out the REAL culprits and hurt their image (and perhaps profits) with an expose. If we want to be successful we have to use the media to fight these companies and their desctructive practices. Of course M$ will try to distance themselves from the case.
If this teacher has the backing of people like Gorbachev, I doubt he will spend any time in a gulag. I am a lot more concerned about the poeple who never make it into the headlines...
What role, if any, do you think Wikipedia should play in education?
The same role as any encyclopedia. As a starting point to find out general information about a subject. Only a retard would cite an encyclopedia on their thesis paper or maybe only as a general introduction to the topic that the paper is on. Something like:
Encyclopedia Britannica (or wiki or whatever) describes trench warfare as.... however recent historical evidence from... and reported by... has surfaced that shows this general understanding is a misconception. In reality trench warfare was...
then you actually use real sources and real research to show and support why the generalization accepted by the majority of the public is wrong.
This is the only way I know of that you can use sources like encyclopedias in an academic paper without receiving a major knock against you. Simply banning wiki is kinda dumb though because it can be a useful tool for stuff like I mentioned and it gives teachers an easy way to see if their students are morons.
Not to mention the link software is actually well designed, and easy to use~
In this respect, I guess you could say that TI is more open-source friendly.
My boss had an HP RPN thingy. I always was like, "Dude, lets play Drug Wars." He'd just look at me like I was a retard.
I can't tell you how many hours I spent making $$ on Drug Wars in high school trig class. Hmmm, maybe thats why I failed calc in college, twice... then retook trig, failed that... then decided I should be a history major instead of CS... now what the hell do I do with this fucking degree? I know! I'll work on computers!
So BVis, what do you think is wrong with you that makes you think this way?
I took the original post to say that these people are not victims. Rather than placing their money in a 401K or bank account, they want to make "easy money" and usually get burned. In my experience, I have found that old people and immigrants (english as a second language) are expecially vulnerable to these schemes, but that doesn't mean anyone is forcing them to pay up. They just need to be smarter with their money. Notice that these two groups are also the most likely to gamble regularly...
So Jidar, what do you think is wrong with you that makes you think BV is "victim blaming?"
Maybe you have spent too much time placing people in "containers" (Webster et. al, any year) based on your preconceptions, rather than actually thinking critically about the point they are trying to make.
Iran is not a nuclear power. It does not even have nuclear power stations. The threat to the world derives from US politicians presenting such countries as a menace in order to be able to launch aggressive wars.
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http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iran/nuke
Iran might have a bomb right now, and will have a bomb by the end of the year. They had nuclear power in the 70s but the two plants were shut down; they probably have a few plants now.
Iran will be the only country in the ME besides Israel that have nukes.
Corelation == Causation
/. has had a higher amount of stories like this than normal the last 6 months or so.
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I think people who speak two languages would on average have more mental activity overall than those who only speak one language. If you work out your brain, it will be stronger and you can resist dementia and degradation from old age. If you work out your body, it will be resist health problems and old age.
I was listening to an interesting radio show out here in San Diego yesterday (The Dangerous Dick and Scibba show) and they were talking about the 20K troop increase as a way to get ready to go into Iran (a nuclear power). People were guessing that Bush/Cheney/and company want to try and neutralize the Iranian threat before leaving office. Me thinks this might be related...
I just got a Sony Ericson W810i for $99 from Cingular with a 2 year plan. THe MSRP on this phone is $349. It has a 2M camera that is actually usable (I use the pics for my 1280x1024 desktop background, take 1600x1200 native), an MP3 player and FM reciever, Pro Duo card slot (mine has a 4Gig card - was $80), some pretty cool games available, and it is a good phone to boot. I debranded it with a $12 firmware upgrade so the cingular branding and stuff is less oppressive, but it wasn't bad to begin with. The W810i is a little slow sometimes but not bad at all, much faster than my old Nokia 6620 (was supposed to be the shit two years ago but sucked).
My 810i has everything the iphone is advertising, along with a 2MP camera. I even watch TV shows and porn on it! I just have to convert the video to mp4 or g3 with a simple and fast video convertor. I spent $180 on it counting the 4 gig pro duo card. The case may not look quite as cool as the iphone and it has a smaller screen but it work great.
The ipod was revolutionary in 2001 because it had 30 GB of storage. At the time, the competition did not offer any thing close to the Ipod's capabilities. I don't think the iphone brings anything new to the table like the Ipod did.
They will just have to use a moderation system that gauges "truthiness."
If this is what they look like:e _Polymer_Aluminum_Solid_Capacitor.html
http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/10829963/Conductiv
Intel Serverboards have had solid caps for over a year...
They've been on the samples we've tested for a while. THe S5000XAL/PAL series uses 'em (among others). Btw, I don't think they use the linked manufacturer, it was just the first pic of one on google.