Wow, thanks for enlightening me to the wonderful world of connectivity available to me. If this was a sampling of that, keep it. I'll keep sitting out on my porch chatting with my neighbors because they're good people, even if we don't share many similar interests beyond a couple of beers and some musings about the day. Seriously, man. You're posting on Slashdot and you don't understand that it's possible to have more than one source of human contact, that you can be friendly to those who happen to live close to you as well as those who know through some other sort of social connection? I guess I'm just old-fashioned, but I start to feel uncomfortable and disconnected when I don't know the people in my neighborhood. BTW, I never said "meet your neighbors" so don't put it in quotes and pretend like I did. You're one of those people who gets flustered when someone you don't know has the audacity to say something to you that requires a response, aren't you?
Didn't Nixon secretly audiotape his political opponents? Wasn't Grant a drunk? Didn't Jackson order the Cherokee to march the Trail of Tears? Why can't Bush do those things, too? Is it maybe because one has nothing to do with the other?
Basic human contact and interaction with your neighborhood is now a thing of the past folks. It's 2007 now, why the hell should I still have to know who that idiot living next door is?
Yeah, we're all sheeple... right. Before you start calling people names for avoiding confrontation with the police why don't you try moving out of your mom's basement?
and you ARE rich, by ANY world standard if you have ANY time to play WoW for leisure
You haven't spent much time in the western world, have you? It's either that or you haven't learned that hyperbole is an annoying tactic in any debate. I do see your point, I really do, or at least I did, until you ignored that the fact that anyone is debating this made that particular argument completely asinine. Seriously, I agree with the rest of your post, I just hate it when my side makes stupid arguments. Yup, not making any friends with this one. Karma's stupid anyway. You know what, I just went back up and read your post, forget I ever said I agree with you. I agree with someone who has some of your ideas and isn't on such a high horse. Come down here with the rest of us next time you want to have a discussion. You aren't perfect. I'm starting to see why I'm wrong because I once thought you were right.
While on duty, yes, I would agree with the proposition that they have no right not to be watched. I would not agree that that is a "human right." If I am on public land I do not have the right not to be watched. If I did the red light camera ticket I got last year would be a blatant violation of that right. I would also note that I am not allowed to carry a weapon, I am not allowed to detain people for questioning, and my power to affect an arrest even if I have witnessed a crime is dubious at best. Nor do I have the right to pull a person over because I misunderstand a change in another states law that makes their vehicle appear to be out of inspection and then issue them a ticket for taking over 30 seconds to produce their registration, forcing them to decide whether to bother going to court for a $40 ticket that could end up costing twice that if they are still found guilty, but I digress. My friendly neighborhood sheriff's deputy and I had a disagreement today. I was right, he was wrong. He had a badge, I did not. I lost, he won.
You are so wrong it hurts. I spent 3 of my years in college doing audio/visual tech support. We got ridiculous calls from professors in EVERY field. Even the good professors didn't always care about finding the best tool for the job so long as they could get the job done quickly so that they could move on to the next one. I had a bioinformatics professor who would write his journal articles in Word and would produce graphs in Excel, edit the graph image in Powerpoint, use print screen to bring the image into paint, and copy it into his Word document. He could program in several languages and was reasonably savvy with Linux, but this was the tool he found and it got the job done. Other professors who were well respected in their field just could not be bothered to care about computers. They used whatever their grad students told them would work. As for the journals comment, you must be more specific. Most professors I've spoken to despise the traditional system of extremely overpriced and under-reviewed journals that they must, in some cases, actually pay to get into. That said, those in the know have a good deal of respect for some of the newer open access journals. I was told more than once that if I am ever to publish I should strive to be published in an open journal and make an effort to cite other open journals in my research.
Have you ever spent 3 days in jail? I haven't, but I can tell you that it would be more than a little upsetting. Also, I bet you've never been asked if a cop can search. Refusing it means you're wasting at least a half hour where the cop will ask you every question he can think of or he arrests you anyway for whatever reason he can come up with. Consenting means ten minutes of search. If I don't have anything illegal in my car I'm gonna consent. The system is extremely broken. This arrest is one of many symptoms.
Umm... they didn't find any pot, remember? Unless the officer, after seeing the box being hidden, chose not to search it, it most certainly did not contain any marijuana. Seems to me that "box full of pot" you're talking about is more a "person full of shit" talking out their ass.
This is especially true on lights with a camera. Typically, the yellow time on the light is decreased, causing a corresponding increase in revenue and decrease in safety. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this type of thinking kills people even while it makes the police and the company that installed the cameras money. Revenue is being placed above the safety of the people, plain and simple.
Wow, just... wow. There's so many obvious things wrong here that I'm sure you must be willfully ignorant.
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It's true, I would have been annoyed by my own post. However, the OP used loose twice, not once. Suggesting that he really does not know the difference.
BTW, this wasn't clever.
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First, loose does not mean lose. They are not the same word. Did you seriously make it through high school, or grade school for that matter, without learning that? Learn it now. I can't even begin to tell you how annoying this mistake is to people who know the difference.
Second, calling your audience "complete fools" and "total idiots" generally causes them to regard you as such. It certainly did so to me, even if I do agree with your main points. Consider your audience. Respect gets respect. Notice how annoyed you got with me when I criticized your schooling? That's what anyone who read your post felt when you insulted them. Once insulted, they were no longer clearly thinking about the information presented to them, regardless of its quality, or lack thereof. I hope that you, not being such a "total idiot," will not fall into the same trap.
Third, you are allowed to use whitespace for formatting purposes. Long blocks of unformatted text present a challenge to the reader. Notice how my list is clearly delineated and easily readable while your's is not? That is because I've used blank lines to help the reader interpret what I'm trying to say in a logical fashion. Indentation would also be acceptable.
Follow these three bits of advice and you will find people listening a lot more intently to what you have to say. That is, if you do indeed have something to say.
The only thing your post shows is that poli sci majors are idiots. We already knew that, thanks. Poli sci majors are stupid, therfore poli sci profs are stupid. Thanks for the advice. In other departments lefties accomplish a great deal. If you, like some other lefties in this country, believe in creationism, then I can see why you would want to discount our accomplishments.
BTW, my post may or may not have anything to with your beliefs, but I would like to take this opportunity to say that anyone who believes in creationism is less intelligent than anyone who doesn't, because those idiots deserve it. Again, I'm aware that that has little to do with the mainstream political spectrum in the US, but the fact that the idea has even been entertained in my country is a personal insult to me and everything I've ever learned or observed.
The study of biology was already open source. There is a wealth of data at the NCBI and other sources. We are seeing a renaissance in molecular biology right now and I, for one, attribute it to the hard work of thousands of researchers freely sharing their work. It's not just the data either, it'sjournals and software, too. We have more information than we know how to handle, and it's being created much faster than it will ever be understood. It's gotten to a point where new fields of study are being created just to interpret the collected data and try to make some sense of it. Bioinformatics and computational biology are truly amazing fields, the only trouble is attempting to explain just what it is you do to friends and relatives. Trust me, it's not always easy.
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Hint #1: Will my non-smoking, asthma-suffering friend who will finally be able to go to a bar in the evening have her freedom restricted?
Tell her to go to a bar where the owner has banned smoking or quit her bitching. If there is a market for it like you say, then some enterprising American must cater to it. If there is not, then why should they be forced to? The free market is a powerful thing if people are willing to vote with their dollars instead of whining about the smoke when they knew it was gonna be there.
Hint #2: Will a family member who gave up smoking years ago and no longer has to suffer the smoky atmosphere he wanted to leave behind every time he goes out for a drink have his freedom restricted?
See above, go to a bar where smoking isn't allowed. If one does not exist either there is no market for it or the market is wide open. Since there is clearly a market for it I suggest your friend start a non-smoking bar or quit whining.
Hint #3: Will the many non-smokers who will now be able to take work in the hospitality trade without risking their own health to do it have their freedom restricted?
Sorry, some jobs have risks and health hazards. That's America, at least the America I love. You got the freedom to hurt yourself. You don't get to walk into a smoke filled bar knowing it was going to be filled with smoke and then whine because you have to breathe it. I am not a smoker, I never was one, I never will be. I have no problem finding bars in my area that do not allow smoking, or at least contain it to a completely separate room. I patronize those businesses because I respect their decision to stop smoking in their business and because I take responsibility for my own health. The government nanny doesn't have to step in and hold my hand and tell me what's right, and big brother sure as hell needs to stop telling bar owners legal activities they can and can't allow on their own private property. Grow a spine.
I'm conflicted about that episode like no other piece of television I can think of. On one hand, it's beautifully written and incredibly touching... you're not the only one who can't always hold back the tears. On the other, god damn it I wanted comedy. It should have come with a warning to anyone who's ever lost their pet.... gtg, I have something in my eye.
Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes I find that the biggest hindrance to my study of math is that I paid attention in high school. There, 1/2 was the inverse of 2, no need to point out that 1/2 is the multiplicative inverse of 2 since it was assumed that I was sleeping instead of learning something. I will not make the same mistake again.
Admit it, you didn't understand the original argument either. I'm admittedly not a physicist, but I would like to think that I know a whole lot more physics than your average person. When I read articles like this I realize that I only know enough about the subject to start to realize how much I don't know. Seriously, props to all of the physicists out there that can actually understand, or at least convince me that they understand, any of the new research out there. Lord knows I've tried. That's why my degree took a sudden turn toward biology.
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Wow, thanks for enlightening me to the wonderful world of connectivity available to me. If this was a sampling of that, keep it. I'll keep sitting out on my porch chatting with my neighbors because they're good people, even if we don't share many similar interests beyond a couple of beers and some musings about the day. Seriously, man. You're posting on Slashdot and you don't understand that it's possible to have more than one source of human contact, that you can be friendly to those who happen to live close to you as well as those who know through some other sort of social connection? I guess I'm just old-fashioned, but I start to feel uncomfortable and disconnected when I don't know the people in my neighborhood. BTW, I never said "meet your neighbors" so don't put it in quotes and pretend like I did. You're one of those people who gets flustered when someone you don't know has the audacity to say something to you that requires a response, aren't you?
Didn't Nixon secretly audiotape his political opponents? Wasn't Grant a drunk? Didn't Jackson order the Cherokee to march the Trail of Tears? Why can't Bush do those things, too? Is it maybe because one has nothing to do with the other?
Basic human contact and interaction with your neighborhood is now a thing of the past folks. It's 2007 now, why the hell should I still have to know who that idiot living next door is?
Yeah, we're all sheeple... right. Before you start calling people names for avoiding confrontation with the police why don't you try moving out of your mom's basement?
and you ARE rich, by ANY world standard if you have ANY time to play WoW for leisure
You haven't spent much time in the western world, have you? It's either that or you haven't learned that hyperbole is an annoying tactic in any debate. I do see your point, I really do, or at least I did, until you ignored that the fact that anyone is debating this made that particular argument completely asinine. Seriously, I agree with the rest of your post, I just hate it when my side makes stupid arguments. Yup, not making any friends with this one. Karma's stupid anyway. You know what, I just went back up and read your post, forget I ever said I agree with you. I agree with someone who has some of your ideas and isn't on such a high horse. Come down here with the rest of us next time you want to have a discussion. You aren't perfect. I'm starting to see why I'm wrong because I once thought you were right.
While on duty, yes, I would agree with the proposition that they have no right not to be watched. I would not agree that that is a "human right." If I am on public land I do not have the right not to be watched. If I did the red light camera ticket I got last year would be a blatant violation of that right. I would also note that I am not allowed to carry a weapon, I am not allowed to detain people for questioning, and my power to affect an arrest even if I have witnessed a crime is dubious at best. Nor do I have the right to pull a person over because I misunderstand a change in another states law that makes their vehicle appear to be out of inspection and then issue them a ticket for taking over 30 seconds to produce their registration, forcing them to decide whether to bother going to court for a $40 ticket that could end up costing twice that if they are still found guilty, but I digress. My friendly neighborhood sheriff's deputy and I had a disagreement today. I was right, he was wrong. He had a badge, I did not. I lost, he won.
You are so wrong it hurts. I spent 3 of my years in college doing audio/visual tech support. We got ridiculous calls from professors in EVERY field. Even the good professors didn't always care about finding the best tool for the job so long as they could get the job done quickly so that they could move on to the next one. I had a bioinformatics professor who would write his journal articles in Word and would produce graphs in Excel, edit the graph image in Powerpoint, use print screen to bring the image into paint, and copy it into his Word document. He could program in several languages and was reasonably savvy with Linux, but this was the tool he found and it got the job done. Other professors who were well respected in their field just could not be bothered to care about computers. They used whatever their grad students told them would work. As for the journals comment, you must be more specific. Most professors I've spoken to despise the traditional system of extremely overpriced and under-reviewed journals that they must, in some cases, actually pay to get into. That said, those in the know have a good deal of respect for some of the newer open access journals. I was told more than once that if I am ever to publish I should strive to be published in an open journal and make an effort to cite other open journals in my research.
Nice troll, almost got me.
I was not aware that carrying a semi-automatic weapon made you immune to taking a desk to the head. Thanks for clearing that up.
That may be, but you'll find your condom doesn't last quite so long as the lubricant.
Have you ever spent 3 days in jail? I haven't, but I can tell you that it would be more than a little upsetting. Also, I bet you've never been asked if a cop can search. Refusing it means you're wasting at least a half hour where the cop will ask you every question he can think of or he arrests you anyway for whatever reason he can come up with. Consenting means ten minutes of search. If I don't have anything illegal in my car I'm gonna consent. The system is extremely broken. This arrest is one of many symptoms.
Umm... they didn't find any pot, remember? Unless the officer, after seeing the box being hidden, chose not to search it, it most certainly did not contain any marijuana. Seems to me that "box full of pot" you're talking about is more a "person full of shit" talking out their ass.
This is especially true on lights with a camera. Typically, the yellow time on the light is decreased, causing a corresponding increase in revenue and decrease in safety. I've said it before and I'll say it again, this type of thinking kills people even while it makes the police and the company that installed the cameras money. Revenue is being placed above the safety of the people, plain and simple.
Wow, just... wow. There's so many obvious things wrong here that I'm sure you must be willfully ignorant.
It's true, I would have been annoyed by my own post. However, the OP used loose twice, not once. Suggesting that he really does not know the difference. BTW, this wasn't clever.
First, loose does not mean lose. They are not the same word. Did you seriously make it through high school, or grade school for that matter, without learning that? Learn it now. I can't even begin to tell you how annoying this mistake is to people who know the difference.
Second, calling your audience "complete fools" and "total idiots" generally causes them to regard you as such. It certainly did so to me, even if I do agree with your main points. Consider your audience. Respect gets respect. Notice how annoyed you got with me when I criticized your schooling? That's what anyone who read your post felt when you insulted them. Once insulted, they were no longer clearly thinking about the information presented to them, regardless of its quality, or lack thereof. I hope that you, not being such a "total idiot," will not fall into the same trap.
Third, you are allowed to use whitespace for formatting purposes. Long blocks of unformatted text present a challenge to the reader. Notice how my list is clearly delineated and easily readable while your's is not? That is because I've used blank lines to help the reader interpret what I'm trying to say in a logical fashion. Indentation would also be acceptable.
Follow these three bits of advice and you will find people listening a lot more intently to what you have to say. That is, if you do indeed have something to say.
The only thing your post shows is that poli sci majors are idiots. We already knew that, thanks. Poli sci majors are stupid, therfore poli sci profs are stupid. Thanks for the advice. In other departments lefties accomplish a great deal. If you, like some other lefties in this country, believe in creationism, then I can see why you would want to discount our accomplishments. BTW, my post may or may not have anything to with your beliefs, but I would like to take this opportunity to say that anyone who believes in creationism is less intelligent than anyone who doesn't, because those idiots deserve it. Again, I'm aware that that has little to do with the mainstream political spectrum in the US, but the fact that the idea has even been entertained in my country is a personal insult to me and everything I've ever learned or observed.
Bioinformatics, especially genomics, has been open from the beginning. It's about time the rest of science caught up.
The study of biology was already open source. There is a wealth of data at the NCBI and other sources. We are seeing a renaissance in molecular biology right now and I, for one, attribute it to the hard work of thousands of researchers freely sharing their work. It's not just the data either, it's journals and software, too. We have more information than we know how to handle, and it's being created much faster than it will ever be understood. It's gotten to a point where new fields of study are being created just to interpret the collected data and try to make some sense of it. Bioinformatics and computational biology are truly amazing fields, the only trouble is attempting to explain just what it is you do to friends and relatives. Trust me, it's not always easy.
You're an idiot.
Hint #1: Will my non-smoking, asthma-suffering friend who will finally be able to go to a bar in the evening have her freedom restricted?
Tell her to go to a bar where the owner has banned smoking or quit her bitching. If there is a market for it like you say, then some enterprising American must cater to it. If there is not, then why should they be forced to? The free market is a powerful thing if people are willing to vote with their dollars instead of whining about the smoke when they knew it was gonna be there. Hint #2: Will a family member who gave up smoking years ago and no longer has to suffer the smoky atmosphere he wanted to leave behind every time he goes out for a drink have his freedom restricted?
See above, go to a bar where smoking isn't allowed. If one does not exist either there is no market for it or the market is wide open. Since there is clearly a market for it I suggest your friend start a non-smoking bar or quit whining. Hint #3: Will the many non-smokers who will now be able to take work in the hospitality trade without risking their own health to do it have their freedom restricted?
Sorry, some jobs have risks and health hazards. That's America, at least the America I love. You got the freedom to hurt yourself. You don't get to walk into a smoke filled bar knowing it was going to be filled with smoke and then whine because you have to breathe it. I am not a smoker, I never was one, I never will be. I have no problem finding bars in my area that do not allow smoking, or at least contain it to a completely separate room. I patronize those businesses because I respect their decision to stop smoking in their business and because I take responsibility for my own health. The government nanny doesn't have to step in and hold my hand and tell me what's right, and big brother sure as hell needs to stop telling bar owners legal activities they can and can't allow on their own private property. Grow a spine.
I'm conflicted about that episode like no other piece of television I can think of. On one hand, it's beautifully written and incredibly touching... you're not the only one who can't always hold back the tears. On the other, god damn it I wanted comedy. It should have come with a warning to anyone who's ever lost their pet.... gtg, I have something in my eye.
I wouldn't be surprised if the U.S. has similar rules.
It's been a while since you been down south, hasn't it?
Thank you for the clarification. Sometimes I find that the biggest hindrance to my study of math is that I paid attention in high school. There, 1/2 was the inverse of 2, no need to point out that 1/2 is the multiplicative inverse of 2 since it was assumed that I was sleeping instead of learning something. I will not make the same mistake again.
Admit it, you didn't understand the original argument either. I'm admittedly not a physicist, but I would like to think that I know a whole lot more physics than your average person. When I read articles like this I realize that I only know enough about the subject to start to realize how much I don't know. Seriously, props to all of the physicists out there that can actually understand, or at least convince me that they understand, any of the new research out there. Lord knows I've tried. That's why my degree took a sudden turn toward biology.