You'd think, since they're not really wedded to an ideology, they'd be better than the right or the left, but really, they're just a bunch of jokers who vote based on whether a candidate has "Presidential Hair" and other such simplistic crap.
"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Seriously, something most people on Slashdot don't remember is that most people are dumber than they are. Most people have an IQ between 90 and 110. And they can vote. So if they can be convinced of some stupid reason to vote for a candidate, it's not difficult for the will of the idiots to overwhelm the will of the intelligentsia.
And I'm avoiding the use of Idiocracy so I don't get flamed.
I got the "basic" cable package and, thanks to a stupid installer (as expected from Comcast), I got every other channel from 56 - 78. This includes three ESPNs and the Golf channel. What do I watch? Sci Fi, Cartoon Network and a very grainy History Channel.
But that's changing tomorrow. I'm getting Dish Network installed for less than the cost of standard cable.
Exactly. Monopolies are never really that much of a problem. And if someone wanted to build a completely new road network, they can find investment money and build one.
This is to save taxpayer money. After all, if engineers were to let slip how bad our crumbling infrastructure has gotten, we might actually have to fix it, and that's very expensive. And you don't want your taxes raised, do you?
That is so freaking cool. If you guys ever need a networking guy/PC support/code monkey/wrench turner, look me up. I've been a Mars exploration enthusiast since I read Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars."
The astronauts will have their circadian rhythms reinforced by the Martian day. I don't see why the ground crews can't stay on Earth time with shift changes like they did with Apollo.
Besides, with a 40 minute round-trip for communications, the reliance on the ground crew will be minimal. It will be like trying to get real-time tech support via email.
Makes you wonder why they stopped using Mars time...
Probably because they were getting too far off of the circadian rhythm. After 37 days of adding an extra 39 minutes to the day you're a whole 24 hours behind. I imagine on Mars the human body would adjust to the extra 39 minutes because it will actually be bright outside, just like you adjust to a different time zone after a couple days.
I enjoy being with kids. I enjoy sharing my knowledge with kids. My niece calls grocery shopping with me "one lesson per aisle." But I will never in my life be a teacher.
Why? Three things: Parents, Administrators and School Boards. I saw what they did to my favorite teachers and how well they treated my least favorite teachers. The teachers who followed the ridiculous rules and thought they were better than the students stayed, but the ones who didn't follow the ridiculous rules and treated their students like equals were quickly eliminated.
So it's not the cost of education that's keeping me out of teaching math or science. It's the environment.
If it increases the pool of qualified science teachers, it is -- and right now, there is a real shortage of math/sci teachers who know science and math, even leaving aside the issue of their teaching skills
My wife's friend called yesterday. She never went to college, but said she wants to be a science teacher. So she can teach creationism.
Until I moved into the city, I thought that it wasn't so bad that so many hip hop artists, particularly the popular ones, swore so much. Then I heard how the people who lived across the street from me, who immersed themselves in "hip hop culture," spoke. Every other word is the F bomb. They don't even need to be excited or angry to use it. And it's not just the parents, but the children as well. And they all seem to call each other the N word, even though it's about an equal split between caucasian, hispanic and african american.
I don't mind using the word occassionally, but constant use of words like that water down their meaning. And I also don't like how they seem to SCREAM every sentence. Fortunately they're moving soon, and their landlord is converting the building back to single-family houses.
I have yet to see an IDE that has a text editor that compares to TextMate. The fonts are ugly, color/theme management is poor, integration with the PC is poor or non-existent, and macros and custom code are much more difficult than TextMate.
These may be good when you need to manage massive projects, but I can't stand to use them for actually writing code. If there was only some way to replace the text editor in these IDEs with TextMate but keep all the trappings that make compiling and deploying these apps easy.
It's sad that we have to do this on EVERY launch when we had developed a perfectly good system where the heat shield was covered for the entire time it wasn't in use.
What, precisely, was wrong with the capsule system that necessitated the development of something that can *gasp* glide to a landing? How have we saved money by building a reusable craft when it costs a billion dollars a launch?
The life would have to survive the fiery, high G, exit from whatever atmosphere there was surrounding the planet and would still have to have sufficient momentum to escape the star.
It would have to survive a high temperature, high-G exit from the planet, but a gravitational boost could eject it from the solar system if it encountered another planet at the right trajectory.
Not that that is any more likely than being flung directly into deep space, just that it is possible.
A long time ago I wouldn't have known what to do with 8mbps, but the spread of even the crappy broadband we have now has allowed things like YouTube and Pandora, which are changing the ways we use the net.
The moral of the story is that you don't know what you'll use it for until enough people have it to make developing applications useful. We don't know what kind of apps we'd use 45mbps for, but I'm sure there's something.
The reason isn't that people are only driving with a 0.05, it's that people are too damn scared to drive after having anything in their system. This includes cough syrup. Heck, you could blow a 0.05 if you swished your mouth with Listerine before you left home!
I groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving are focusing too much on the "Drunk" than on the "Driving." It's so liberating to be able to walk to my local bar and have a few beers and not worry about getting pulled over on the way home. If you gave people better options for getting to and from bars than driving and promoted them as ways to avoid DUIs, you'd see a drop in convictions and accidents.
In my opinion, the core group of MADD has a lot in common with the Women's Christian Temperance Union. They're not opposed to DUI, they're opposed to drinking.
While I would like a car that can do 0-60 in less than 20 seconds, I don't need a 200 horsepower V6 in a compact car. I'd rather have a car that got 40 or 50 mpg and had a 15 second 0-60 time than a car that gets 25 mpg and can do 0-60 in less than 10 seconds.
I don't know about you, but I don't drag race very often. And I find people who are racing from every stoplight are stressed out jerks.
I did something similar with my 13 year old brother-in-law. I installed a blocker on his machine and told him that if he tried to circumvent it or go to a blocked site, I'd get an email and would tell his mom.
I'm going to set up a proxy server for my kids. It will be like a cat and mouse game. They'll try to gain access to things they shouldn't, and I'll try to stop them. I can't think of a better way to teach my kids about computers and the Internet.
To put it another way: I'm less concerned about them talking to strangers than I am about them not learning valuable skills.
I agree. This country is going to see a mass exodus of educated, young professionals if it keeps this up. Why should I stay where I'm not wanted, living under a regime I did not elect, without the benefits I could find in another Western country?
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"The biggest argument against democracy is a five minute discussion with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Seriously, something most people on Slashdot don't remember is that most people are dumber than they are. Most people have an IQ between 90 and 110. And they can vote. So if they can be convinced of some stupid reason to vote for a candidate, it's not difficult for the will of the idiots to overwhelm the will of the intelligentsia.
And I'm avoiding the use of Idiocracy so I don't get flamed.
Yes, but they also light fires and blow stuff up. And there's a hot red head. Actual scientists could learn a few things from them.
I got the "basic" cable package and, thanks to a stupid installer (as expected from Comcast), I got every other channel from 56 - 78. This includes three ESPNs and the Golf channel. What do I watch? Sci Fi, Cartoon Network and a very grainy History Channel.
But that's changing tomorrow. I'm getting Dish Network installed for less than the cost of standard cable.
Exactly. Monopolies are never really that much of a problem. And if someone wanted to build a completely new road network, they can find investment money and build one.
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This is to save taxpayer money. After all, if engineers were to let slip how bad our crumbling infrastructure has gotten, we might actually have to fix it, and that's very expensive. And you don't want your taxes raised, do you?
Of course not.
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That is so freaking cool. If you guys ever need a networking guy/PC support/code monkey/wrench turner, look me up. I've been a Mars exploration enthusiast since I read Zubrin's book "The Case for Mars."
The astronauts will have their circadian rhythms reinforced by the Martian day. I don't see why the ground crews can't stay on Earth time with shift changes like they did with Apollo.
Besides, with a 40 minute round-trip for communications, the reliance on the ground crew will be minimal. It will be like trying to get real-time tech support via email.
Probably because they were getting too far off of the circadian rhythm. After 37 days of adding an extra 39 minutes to the day you're a whole 24 hours behind. I imagine on Mars the human body would adjust to the extra 39 minutes because it will actually be bright outside, just like you adjust to a different time zone after a couple days.
I enjoy being with kids. I enjoy sharing my knowledge with kids. My niece calls grocery shopping with me "one lesson per aisle." But I will never in my life be a teacher.
Why? Three things: Parents, Administrators and School Boards. I saw what they did to my favorite teachers and how well they treated my least favorite teachers. The teachers who followed the ridiculous rules and thought they were better than the students stayed, but the ones who didn't follow the ridiculous rules and treated their students like equals were quickly eliminated.
So it's not the cost of education that's keeping me out of teaching math or science. It's the environment.
My wife's friend called yesterday. She never went to college, but said she wants to be a science teacher. So she can teach creationism.
If she gets hired, I fear for our future.
Until I moved into the city, I thought that it wasn't so bad that so many hip hop artists, particularly the popular ones, swore so much. Then I heard how the people who lived across the street from me, who immersed themselves in "hip hop culture," spoke. Every other word is the F bomb. They don't even need to be excited or angry to use it. And it's not just the parents, but the children as well. And they all seem to call each other the N word, even though it's about an equal split between caucasian, hispanic and african american.
I don't mind using the word occassionally, but constant use of words like that water down their meaning. And I also don't like how they seem to SCREAM every sentence. Fortunately they're moving soon, and their landlord is converting the building back to single-family houses.
I have yet to see an IDE that has a text editor that compares to TextMate. The fonts are ugly, color/theme management is poor, integration with the PC is poor or non-existent, and macros and custom code are much more difficult than TextMate.
These may be good when you need to manage massive projects, but I can't stand to use them for actually writing code. If there was only some way to replace the text editor in these IDEs with TextMate but keep all the trappings that make compiling and deploying these apps easy.
It's sad that we have to do this on EVERY launch when we had developed a perfectly good system where the heat shield was covered for the entire time it wasn't in use.
What, precisely, was wrong with the capsule system that necessitated the development of something that can *gasp* glide to a landing? How have we saved money by building a reusable craft when it costs a billion dollars a launch?
It would have to survive a high temperature, high-G exit from the planet, but a gravitational boost could eject it from the solar system if it encountered another planet at the right trajectory.
Not that that is any more likely than being flung directly into deep space, just that it is possible.
A long time ago I wouldn't have known what to do with 8mbps, but the spread of even the crappy broadband we have now has allowed things like YouTube and Pandora, which are changing the ways we use the net.
The moral of the story is that you don't know what you'll use it for until enough people have it to make developing applications useful. We don't know what kind of apps we'd use 45mbps for, but I'm sure there's something.
The reason isn't that people are only driving with a 0.05, it's that people are too damn scared to drive after having anything in their system. This includes cough syrup. Heck, you could blow a 0.05 if you swished your mouth with Listerine before you left home!
I groups like Mothers Against Drunk Driving are focusing too much on the "Drunk" than on the "Driving." It's so liberating to be able to walk to my local bar and have a few beers and not worry about getting pulled over on the way home. If you gave people better options for getting to and from bars than driving and promoted them as ways to avoid DUIs, you'd see a drop in convictions and accidents.
In my opinion, the core group of MADD has a lot in common with the Women's Christian Temperance Union. They're not opposed to DUI, they're opposed to drinking.
While I would like a car that can do 0-60 in less than 20 seconds, I don't need a 200 horsepower V6 in a compact car. I'd rather have a car that got 40 or 50 mpg and had a 15 second 0-60 time than a car that gets 25 mpg and can do 0-60 in less than 10 seconds.
I don't know about you, but I don't drag race very often. And I find people who are racing from every stoplight are stressed out jerks.
I did something similar with my 13 year old brother-in-law. I installed a blocker on his machine and told him that if he tried to circumvent it or go to a blocked site, I'd get an email and would tell his mom.
So they're making peril-sensitive lenses now?
The only problem I have with XHTML/CSS is browsers that don't support it properly.
Use Firefox and install the NoScript plugin. That keeps just about everything off your machine unless you explicitly allow it on there.
I'm going to set up a proxy server for my kids. It will be like a cat and mouse game. They'll try to gain access to things they shouldn't, and I'll try to stop them. I can't think of a better way to teach my kids about computers and the Internet.
To put it another way: I'm less concerned about them talking to strangers than I am about them not learning valuable skills.
I thought it was an attempt to get the kid haters over their prejudice so that we don't end up in a world where the lazy and stupid have all the kids.
It certainly worked on me. I'm expecting my first child, a daughter, in about eight weeks.
I agree. This country is going to see a mass exodus of educated, young professionals if it keeps this up. Why should I stay where I'm not wanted, living under a regime I did not elect, without the benefits I could find in another Western country?
I've noticed that, too, and I can't think of an explanation.