The general attitude towards school these days is pathetic. They think the teachers just assign shit so they can sit around and do nothing, or busy work. Like it or not you can memorize formulas, rules, and standards but that isn't the point. You're not supposed to just learn the material, you're supposed to learn how to APPLY the material. I can only speak from personal experience, but repitition is the only way I learn and my grades show it. I remember a trig class in high school I took. The teacher assigned 20 points worth of homework every night, the A problems being worth 1pt a piece, the B worth 2pts, and the C worth 3pts. I did every single problem you could do every single night (out of boredom really). My exams were perfect and I got a 120% in the class. Let's skip foward to college real quick. My calculus 1 class I did probably 90% of the homework and I got an A in the class, uncurved. My chemistry 1 class I did probably 75% of the homework and got an A- in the clas, though to be fair the grades were curved so that should be taken into account. In my physics 1 class I did virtually no homework and got a B in the class, this class was also heavily curved and by all rights I should have failed (anything less than a C- being a failing grade).
If kids don't want to take their education seriously then that's their problem, or will be in the future. It isn't the homework that's the problem, it's the mentality of the students.
Good and evil are both defined by the masses. It's an invention of the human mind and is not a universal truth. There's no mathematical equation or relationship that can be used to determine if something is good or evil.
But like I said, good and evil are defined by the majority. If you kill someone and you don't think that that's wrong, well you're in the minority and your opinion simply doesn't matter since you live in a country where the majority of the people do think it's wrong.
This is what I feel. The two trilogies were based on the life of Anakin Skywalker. I don't see how they could make the story any more complete and they would just end up creating fluff. That doesn't mean the Star Wars universe isn't interesting, but as far as the movie series go it's over. I'm not saying I'm against new Star Wars movies, just a continuation of the current saga since Anakin is dead. I think a perfect example, although not a movie, is Knights of the Old Republic. It was a pretty interesting story within itself based in the Star Wars universe. Of course I'm sure there can be only so many Jedi vs. Sith movies before the whole franchise gets mundane and bland.
How delightfully shortsighted your post is. This sounds like the perfect test for a large scale RFID tracking database for every citizen in the US. Yes I'm referring to the Real ID Act. So no, it doesn't have any immediate relevance to your rights. It could. I will agree that it's in the wrong category though.
Those are things people needed to get the Space program going. But recently, we panic in real life when the space program loses even one life. That's not realistic. We need Star Trek to be brave enough to teach us that good lives will be lost, and that this is acceptable. I think we are losing that sense, and insisting on a completely planned experience both in real life and on the show. I disagree. Lives will be lost, as with pretty much any venture into the unknown. However, this is not 'acceptable', merely inevitable.
Actually the Preamble states the following:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The Constitution has no mention of a perpetual union or anything dealing with succession. Because it was never specifically mentioned the right of succession is a right of every state as given by the 10th Amendment. So it's perfectly legal for a state to succeed form the Union. At least it was before the Civil War where Lincoln decided it wasn't okay for a state or succeed. The Civil War was based on this. The North claims the Civil War was brought on by the issue of slavery, the South claims the Civil War was brought on by violation of State Rights and they decided to succeed. The victors write history.
The diseases are very real and can cleary be seen. The problem is that people use these diseases as crutches. By that I mean while there is a small percentage of people who do have to deal with these very serious diseases, there are a plethora of people who get misdiagnosed through incompetent or unqualified medical personnel or by exaggerating their own symptoms. They use this as an excuse as to why they, their kids, or whatever aren't doing well in school, work, socially, what have you.
I can see why someone might get the impression that these diseases are somehow fake or a product of societies narrow view on what's considered 'normal' but I can assure you they're not.
I like a post somewhere in this thread where the author revealed some sound advice he got from his psychiatrist and at the end of the post he says he won't tell anyone if he's autistic or not. People don't go around saying, "I have AIDS" or, "I have Crohn's disease." I've known many people here at university who will happily claim they have ADHD and blame a myriad of problems on in, including poor marks. I'm sure a select few do have it, in fact I had a class with someone who had Asperger's syndrome this semester. The point is way too many people happily use the ease of a misdiagnoses as an excuse for doing poorly while the people who really do have these diseases and disorders really do suffer from what they have and from the bad reputation they get because of poseurs.
There is always error, it's unavoidable. However, considering the budget that was used to conduct this polling, which was nothing except web hosting costs, it's about as good as it's going to get. Yes there are flaws, but unless you have the money to fork out to a third party firm to do the survey for you then I wouldn't call this useless. This was the point I was trying to make in my first post, although I admit I was a bit vague.
statistics n. 1. (used with a sing. verb) The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.
The statistics are for desktop linux usage, the web site is aptly named desktoplinux.com. I don't see any major biased in the survey or viewership and the sample size is sufficiently large. I see no reason why this survey would be considered useless.
"USA is a technological backwater because people aren't getting broadband" thread. Maybe we should force more people to get it so that we can stop hearing this over and over and over at/.?
Or perhaps we can look at the percentage of subcribers out of the whole population instead of just the number of subscribers. We're ahead percentage wise and will still be ahead percentage wise in 2007 (according to the prediction). They might have more subscribers in 2007, but they also have roughly four times the population of the US. This really isn't an interesting piece of news, more like a slanted piece of news that gets responses like yours.
I had no malice or contempt towards my parent in my post, nor was I condescending. I just think someone should be informed before they speak about a subject. Perhaps my tone was stern, but that's about it.
I never said there wasn't any water on other planets; I was merely pointing out that it isn't impossible for a planet with oxygen and hydrogen to have no water. In fact it's very possible. The planet can contain enough thermal energy, internally and externally, and have a low enough pressure to break O-H bonds.
I'm actually about to finish my second statistics course. Not that it has any relevance to this conversation.
Well I wouldn't want to be around a hydrogen leak either. The two do react explosively if the proper conditions are met, a spark will certainly do it. That's why hydrogen lines have multiple shells and multiple sensor relays to report any leaks. But you have to remember that we're on Earth, conditions will vary elsewhere. Pressure, temperature, etc...
Technically oxygen and hydrogen do form water spontaneously (keep in mind spontaneous doesn't indicate a time scale). It's a very slow process though. I just didn't want to overly complicate my original post.
Well now you've lost me. You cited thought and consciousness as an example of something we spend money on that is "painfully obvious". But wait, now you're saying it isn't obvious? Either you don't know what you're talking about or, more likely, we're in agreeance but on different pages in the same book. In either case that's not the subject of the thread so it's irrelevant.
I suppose there should be some clarification as to what constitutes a discovery of water on an extraterrestrial object. There's no doubt that water exists, to some extent, where hydrogen and oxygen are present. However, a "discovery of water" would most likely be a discovery of water capable of supporting life; a few moles of water on a planet of any decent size isn't exactly noteworthy. I'm not saying that I think there is only trace amounts of water on Mars since there is a lot of evidence that suggests otherwise. But like I said in my other post, "Just because something can happen doesn't necessarily mean it will happen."
I mean, take hydrogen, oxygen, two very abundant elements in the solar system, and bam!, you have water.
Please take a chemistry course. Oxygen and hydrogen don't just spontaneously form water. You have to nudge the solution over it's activation barrier before the two will react. Of course the activation barrier depends on many variables.
Just because something can happen doesn't necessarily mean that it will happen.
Your logic is flawed. We study the greenhouse effect and global warming because we're still trying to figure out all the different variables present that cause these phenomena. We know what thought and consciousness is, but we have no idea about how and why it is the way it is. We do studies to make a casual relationship between smoking and cancer, but more importantly we do these studies to find out what specific compound(s) cause cancer and why they cause cancer. We know a car will get crunched if we ram it into something, but we don't know how bad it will be or how safe the driver will be when a crumple zone is hit. Notice a pattern here? We know these things are there, but we want to know HOW and WHY. We're not trying to find out how or why water is on Mars or any other planet, we're only trying to figure out if it's there.
It's sort of the same, but then again not really. From InPhase's website:
Light from a single laser beam is split into two beams, the signal beam (which carries the data) and the reference beam. The hologram is formed where these two beams intersect in the recording medium.
The process for encoding data onto the signal beam is accomplished by a device called a spatial light modulator (SLM). The SLM translates the electronic data of 0's and 1's into an optical "checkerboard" pattern of light and dark pixels. The data is arranged in an array or page of around a million bits. The exact number of bits is determined by the pixel count of the SLM.
At the point of intersection of the reference beam and the data carrying signal beam, the hologram is recorded in the light sensitive storage medium. A chemical reaction occurs in the medium when the bright elements of the signal beam intersect the reference beam, causing the hologram stored. By varying the reference beam angle, wavelength, or media position many different holograms can be recorded in the same volume of material.
I actually couldn't remember the exact wording of the quote so I googled it. That's what I got. Hardly an attempt to further my "agenda". In either case I thank you for the correction, now quit splitting hairs.
More people need to care, that's the problem here. People figure that just because a law restricting a personal freedom doesn't affect them personally it doesn't matter. The problem is if you allow them to start taking away personal liberties, even if it doesn't affect you at first, it eventually will hit home. I hate to sound like my old man, but he is dead right in this respect.
"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for temporal safety deserve neither to be safe or free." - Benjamin Franklin
I think the first law that needs to be changed, at least for the Australians, are these "Anton Piller orders". What kind of moronic branch of the government would give a company/group/individual the ability to independently search another when they have a vested interest in the outcome? That's like letting a murdered person's family be on the jury that convicts the accused.
Murder is not the same thing is involuntary manslaughter. Murder is premeditated. It's actually a very large distinction.
I do agree that the extent of the sentence is asinine though. His crime is the equivillent of robbing a bank without a gun. Which begs the question, where were the security gaurds?
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The general attitude towards school these days is pathetic. They think the teachers just assign shit so they can sit around and do nothing, or busy work. Like it or not you can memorize formulas, rules, and standards but that isn't the point. You're not supposed to just learn the material, you're supposed to learn how to APPLY the material. I can only speak from personal experience, but repitition is the only way I learn and my grades show it. I remember a trig class in high school I took. The teacher assigned 20 points worth of homework every night, the A problems being worth 1pt a piece, the B worth 2pts, and the C worth 3pts. I did every single problem you could do every single night (out of boredom really). My exams were perfect and I got a 120% in the class. Let's skip foward to college real quick. My calculus 1 class I did probably 90% of the homework and I got an A in the class, uncurved. My chemistry 1 class I did probably 75% of the homework and got an A- in the clas, though to be fair the grades were curved so that should be taken into account. In my physics 1 class I did virtually no homework and got a B in the class, this class was also heavily curved and by all rights I should have failed (anything less than a C- being a failing grade).
If kids don't want to take their education seriously then that's their problem, or will be in the future. It isn't the homework that's the problem, it's the mentality of the students.
Good and evil are both defined by the masses. It's an invention of the human mind and is not a universal truth. There's no mathematical equation or relationship that can be used to determine if something is good or evil.
But like I said, good and evil are defined by the majority. If you kill someone and you don't think that that's wrong, well you're in the minority and your opinion simply doesn't matter since you live in a country where the majority of the people do think it's wrong.
The possibilities are endless, but Kirk must be involved. Kirk IS Star Trek. Nobody can take his place.
Except those... millions of bad actors... who randomly... insert... pauses... to dramatize the... SCENE!
This is what I feel. The two trilogies were based on the life of Anakin Skywalker. I don't see how they could make the story any more complete and they would just end up creating fluff. That doesn't mean the Star Wars universe isn't interesting, but as far as the movie series go it's over. I'm not saying I'm against new Star Wars movies, just a continuation of the current saga since Anakin is dead. I think a perfect example, although not a movie, is Knights of the Old Republic. It was a pretty interesting story within itself based in the Star Wars universe. Of course I'm sure there can be only so many Jedi vs. Sith movies before the whole franchise gets mundane and bland.
How delightfully shortsighted your post is. This sounds like the perfect test for a large scale RFID tracking database for every citizen in the US. Yes I'm referring to the Real ID Act. So no, it doesn't have any immediate relevance to your rights. It could. I will agree that it's in the wrong category though.
But that's just my opinion.
Those are things people needed to get the Space program going. But recently, we panic in real life when the space program loses even one life. That's not realistic. We need Star Trek to be brave enough to teach us that good lives will be lost, and that this is acceptable. I think we are losing that sense, and insisting on a completely planned experience both in real life and on the show.
I disagree. Lives will be lost, as with pretty much any venture into the unknown. However, this is not 'acceptable', merely inevitable.
Bleh, I said 'succeed' instead of 'secede' which is what I meant. Finals tend to make my brain mush, forgive that mistake.
Actually the Preamble states the following:
We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
The Constitution has no mention of a perpetual union or anything dealing with succession. Because it was never specifically mentioned the right of succession is a right of every state as given by the 10th Amendment. So it's perfectly legal for a state to succeed form the Union. At least it was before the Civil War where Lincoln decided it wasn't okay for a state or succeed. The Civil War was based on this. The North claims the Civil War was brought on by the issue of slavery, the South claims the Civil War was brought on by violation of State Rights and they decided to succeed. The victors write history.
The diseases are very real and can cleary be seen. The problem is that people use these diseases as crutches. By that I mean while there is a small percentage of people who do have to deal with these very serious diseases, there are a plethora of people who get misdiagnosed through incompetent or unqualified medical personnel or by exaggerating their own symptoms. They use this as an excuse as to why they, their kids, or whatever aren't doing well in school, work, socially, what have you.
I can see why someone might get the impression that these diseases are somehow fake or a product of societies narrow view on what's considered 'normal' but I can assure you they're not.
I like a post somewhere in this thread where the author revealed some sound advice he got from his psychiatrist and at the end of the post he says he won't tell anyone if he's autistic or not. People don't go around saying, "I have AIDS" or, "I have Crohn's disease." I've known many people here at university who will happily claim they have ADHD and blame a myriad of problems on in, including poor marks. I'm sure a select few do have it, in fact I had a class with someone who had Asperger's syndrome this semester. The point is way too many people happily use the ease of a misdiagnoses as an excuse for doing poorly while the people who really do have these diseases and disorders really do suffer from what they have and from the bad reputation they get because of poseurs.
There is always error, it's unavoidable. However, considering the budget that was used to conduct this polling, which was nothing except web hosting costs, it's about as good as it's going to get. Yes there are flaws, but unless you have the money to fork out to a third party firm to do the survey for you then I wouldn't call this useless. This was the point I was trying to make in my first post, although I admit I was a bit vague.
statistics
n.
1. (used with a sing. verb) The mathematics of the collection, organization, and interpretation of numerical data, especially the analysis of population characteristics by inference from sampling.
The statistics are for desktop linux usage, the web site is aptly named desktoplinux.com. I don't see any major biased in the survey or viewership and the sample size is sufficiently large. I see no reason why this survey would be considered useless.
"USA is a technological backwater because people aren't getting broadband" thread. Maybe we should force more people to get it so that we can stop hearing this over and over and over at /.?
Or perhaps we can look at the percentage of subcribers out of the whole population instead of just the number of subscribers. We're ahead percentage wise and will still be ahead percentage wise in 2007 (according to the prediction). They might have more subscribers in 2007, but they also have roughly four times the population of the US. This really isn't an interesting piece of news, more like a slanted piece of news that gets responses like yours.
I had no malice or contempt towards my parent in my post, nor was I condescending. I just think someone should be informed before they speak about a subject. Perhaps my tone was stern, but that's about it.
I never said there wasn't any water on other planets; I was merely pointing out that it isn't impossible for a planet with oxygen and hydrogen to have no water. In fact it's very possible. The planet can contain enough thermal energy, internally and externally, and have a low enough pressure to break O-H bonds.
I'm actually about to finish my second statistics course. Not that it has any relevance to this conversation.
Point taken.
Well I wouldn't want to be around a hydrogen leak either. The two do react explosively if the proper conditions are met, a spark will certainly do it. That's why hydrogen lines have multiple shells and multiple sensor relays to report any leaks. But you have to remember that we're on Earth, conditions will vary elsewhere. Pressure, temperature, etc...
Technically oxygen and hydrogen do form water spontaneously (keep in mind spontaneous doesn't indicate a time scale). It's a very slow process though. I just didn't want to overly complicate my original post.
Well now you've lost me. You cited thought and consciousness as an example of something we spend money on that is "painfully obvious". But wait, now you're saying it isn't obvious? Either you don't know what you're talking about or, more likely, we're in agreeance but on different pages in the same book. In either case that's not the subject of the thread so it's irrelevant.
I suppose there should be some clarification as to what constitutes a discovery of water on an extraterrestrial object. There's no doubt that water exists, to some extent, where hydrogen and oxygen are present. However, a "discovery of water" would most likely be a discovery of water capable of supporting life; a few moles of water on a planet of any decent size isn't exactly noteworthy. I'm not saying that I think there is only trace amounts of water on Mars since there is a lot of evidence that suggests otherwise. But like I said in my other post, "Just because something can happen doesn't necessarily mean it will happen."
I mean, take hydrogen, oxygen, two very abundant elements in the solar system, and bam!, you have water.
Please take a chemistry course. Oxygen and hydrogen don't just spontaneously form water. You have to nudge the solution over it's activation barrier before the two will react. Of course the activation barrier depends on many variables.
Just because something can happen doesn't necessarily mean that it will happen.
Your logic is flawed. We study the greenhouse effect and global warming because we're still trying to figure out all the different variables present that cause these phenomena. We know what thought and consciousness is, but we have no idea about how and why it is the way it is. We do studies to make a casual relationship between smoking and cancer, but more importantly we do these studies to find out what specific compound(s) cause cancer and why they cause cancer. We know a car will get crunched if we ram it into something, but we don't know how bad it will be or how safe the driver will be when a crumple zone is hit. Notice a pattern here? We know these things are there, but we want to know HOW and WHY. We're not trying to find out how or why water is on Mars or any other planet, we're only trying to figure out if it's there.
It's sort of the same, but then again not really. From InPhase's website:
Light from a single laser beam is split into two beams, the signal beam (which carries the data) and the reference beam. The hologram is formed where these two beams intersect in the recording medium.
The process for encoding data onto the signal beam is accomplished by a device called a spatial light modulator (SLM). The SLM translates the electronic data of 0's and 1's into an optical "checkerboard" pattern of light and dark pixels. The data is arranged in an array or page of around a million bits. The exact number of bits is determined by the pixel count of the SLM.
At the point of intersection of the reference beam and the data carrying signal beam, the hologram is recorded in the light sensitive storage medium. A chemical reaction occurs in the medium when the bright elements of the signal beam intersect the reference beam, causing the hologram stored. By varying the reference beam angle, wavelength, or media position many different holograms can be recorded in the same volume of material.
I actually couldn't remember the exact wording of the quote so I googled it. That's what I got. Hardly an attempt to further my "agenda". In either case I thank you for the correction, now quit splitting hairs.
More people need to care, that's the problem here. People figure that just because a law restricting a personal freedom doesn't affect them personally it doesn't matter. The problem is if you allow them to start taking away personal liberties, even if it doesn't affect you at first, it eventually will hit home. I hate to sound like my old man, but he is dead right in this respect.
;).
"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for temporal safety deserve neither to be safe or free."
- Benjamin Franklin
Just my opinion though
I think the first law that needs to be changed, at least for the Australians, are these "Anton Piller orders". What kind of moronic branch of the government would give a company/group/individual the ability to independently search another when they have a vested interest in the outcome? That's like letting a murdered person's family be on the jury that convicts the accused.
I don't know about that. My last girlfriend told me her black hole was "off limits".
Why is an exothermic reaction that heats up your coffee so amazing? Not to be cynical or anything but this really isn't that amazing.
Murder is not the same thing is involuntary manslaughter. Murder is premeditated. It's actually a very large distinction.
I do agree that the extent of the sentence is asinine though. His crime is the equivillent of robbing a bank without a gun. Which begs the question, where were the security gaurds?