The misconception is that small insects do not fly using classic airfoil theory (ie pressure difference in continuous transverse flow) - instead they use induced vorticies at the leading and trailing edges of their wings to produce lift.
Your logic is faulty: merely being uncertain of something does not make it possible. States can be uncertain until observed, but there are plenty of states that cannot be entered into irrespective of observation.
Regardless that Slashdot is hosted in the US, its users have the annoying habit of being distinctly international. Although I do like your sentiment "English Happens", there are some commonly accepted standards. The standards -I- am expected to uphold are those of Australian English, wot with being a true blue ocka Aussie 'n all, 'struth.
And yes, English has only been 'standardised' (or -ized, whathaveyou) fairly recently, but the French would disagree that you can't tightly specify what is acceptable in the mother tongue.
Perhaps I'm just persnickety because I'm the child of an editor and was sternly taught that correct English spelling is not optional? Perhaps we can agree that the issue should not be whether Aussie, British or American English are 'right' but rather whether people even bother to use any sort of correct spelling or grammar at all.
Would you notice if a slowed down network is 'business as usual'? Perhaps we will all be amazed at the speed we get when spam spontaneously evaporates due to some currently unknown magic bullet.
I sincerely hope the magic bullet targets spammer hippocamuses (hippocampii?)
Damn straight. I was rather annoyed, a few comments ago, when I was lambasted for daring to localise my language to non-American English. How insolent of me to spell things as they are supposed to be spelled, according to the people who invented the bloody language. The gall!
That said, there is a case to be made for American 'English', given that many of the spellings of English words are influences from French - the lingua of sophisticrats years gone by (Lingua Franca?).
I am faced with the choice - American English or French English? Naturally, I choose Aussie English - bloody oath.
The moment I saw the headline, I immediately thought of three smart-ass tags... then I looked down and all three were taken. At least I can still tag it something obvious like 'story'
You know, that's not a terrible idea. Although it's probably not true, on the face of it non-profit new sources inherently seem less prone to pressure from vested interests.
Mandated not-for-profit media sources make for better reporting: discuss.
They do. And that's why they're tightening the screws and training children to obediently 'line up against the wall' so to speak, while they've still got control.
Having gone to both private and public schools, I can tell you that private schools very much have a business mentality. Their profit isn't monetary so much as prestige - they are run by the sort of people who expect school to return dividends in the way of more endowments, more buildings, larger stained glass windows.
That means higher scoring students, successful sporting teams, parent-pleasing uniforms. They're also not afraid to use hard-sell tactics, either. On the other hand, they also genuinely give a shit about bad press and unhappy parents.
There were some school bullies at my school who generally gave me a hard time, but were mostly innoculous. One day they stole my bag with my ventilin inhaler in it when I just happened to have an asthema attack. The next day, righteous fire from above came down - there was an assembly, notes were sent home, and although nobody was named it was made clear that There Had Been a Severe Infraction By Students, and that There Will Not Be Another. The 'Understood?' was tacit. After that, they never bothered me again.
Even if they didn't care about me personally, the fact that they were a hairsbreadth away from losing a student on school grounds, in school hours, scared the bejesus out of them.
Contrast that with the two public schools I attended - I was a gifted student and my parents fought the admin all the way to try to put me into special programs. If it wasn't for one or two teachers who took an interest in me, I'd still be waiting for Bulwinkle over there to figure out that three goes into six two times, so the rest of the class could move on. Oh, and nobody there gave a damn that I got the crap kicked out of me, either. I was told, at one point, that if I hit back I'd be expelled.
Except it's not the prisoner's dilemma (as classically stated), because cooperation will always return less than cheating, and double-betrayal returns equal to cooperation. Eg. I assign you 1/100th share and you assign me 1/100th share - equal shares, we both split the proceeds equally. If I assign you 1/2 share, and you assign me 1/2 share, we both split the proceeds equally. If I assign you 1/100th share and you assign me 1/2 share, I walk away with almost everything. I've not RTFA, so I'm not sure if that's what they are doing exactly, but if so there is no incentive to cooperate under that schema.
Shutting down criminal websites is exactly the solution, not just censoring them along with other random legal things. Yes, all of the illegal websites on the list are probably outside Australia's jurisdiction - but that's ok, because downloading stuff from such websites is in itself a crime (and thus said criminals can be themselves shutdown and imprisoned). There are ways and means of dealing with the problem which doesn't involve establishing an easily abused content control infrastructure.
Why would you want opt-out, instead of opt-in? I don't particularly like the idea of having to go to an ISP and identifying myself directly as either a subversive or a pervert. Much easier, don't you think, to have all those people out there who do want something like this to opt-in, so they can be easily identified as people who need someone else to regulate their internet use.
Indeed. While I don't advocate having kids build a microwave to learn how they work (but that would be so cool!) I think it is valuable to teach by doing. One of my greatest regrets about my engineering degree was that too much emphasis was based on 'running the numbers', rather than actually building stuff and finding out what does (and doesn't) work. In the same vein, I would say that one of the towering testaments to the success (and validity) of science is that its practical application, engineering, -works-.
XKCD tells us "Science: It works, Bitches", but in truth, it's engineering that proves it to us day by day.
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And the sharks would go where?
Don't be so sure. Atomic and subatomic particles do spontaneously decay - it just happens quite infrequently.
The misconception is that small insects do not fly using classic airfoil theory (ie pressure difference in continuous transverse flow) - instead they use induced vorticies at the leading and trailing edges of their wings to produce lift.
A 'failure' in science is an erroneous result. A valid negative result is still a scientific success (even if it's not as publishable).
Tightly wrapped around my head to shield the Bugsblatter beast of Traal from my gaze.
Psychics aren't wrong - they just have a limited probability of success.
Is a Nazi-Nazi someone who insists you spell "Eichmann" with two 'n's?
Your logic is faulty: merely being uncertain of something does not make it possible. States can be uncertain until observed, but there are plenty of states that cannot be entered into irrespective of observation.
Frankly, I never get invited to any of those parties, either.
Clearly there can be no reconciliation between dialects. I propose we nip down to the pub (or bar, as you will) and settle this like men.
And yes, English has only been 'standardised' (or -ized, whathaveyou) fairly recently, but the French would disagree that you can't tightly specify what is acceptable in the mother tongue.
Perhaps I'm just persnickety because I'm the child of an editor and was sternly taught that correct English spelling is not optional? Perhaps we can agree that the issue should not be whether Aussie, British or American English are 'right' but rather whether people even bother to use any sort of correct spelling or grammar at all.
I sincerely hope the magic bullet targets spammer hippocamuses (hippocampii?)
That said, there is a case to be made for American 'English', given that many of the spellings of English words are influences from French - the lingua of sophisticrats years gone by (Lingua Franca?).
I am faced with the choice - American English or French English? Naturally, I choose Aussie English - bloody oath.
The moment I saw the headline, I immediately thought of three smart-ass tags... then I looked down and all three were taken. At least I can still tag it something obvious like 'story'
Mandated not-for-profit media sources make for better reporting: discuss.
They do. And that's why they're tightening the screws and training children to obediently 'line up against the wall' so to speak, while they've still got control.
That means higher scoring students, successful sporting teams, parent-pleasing uniforms. They're also not afraid to use hard-sell tactics, either. On the other hand, they also genuinely give a shit about bad press and unhappy parents.
There were some school bullies at my school who generally gave me a hard time, but were mostly innoculous. One day they stole my bag with my ventilin inhaler in it when I just happened to have an asthema attack. The next day, righteous fire from above came down - there was an assembly, notes were sent home, and although nobody was named it was made clear that There Had Been a Severe Infraction By Students, and that There Will Not Be Another. The 'Understood?' was tacit. After that, they never bothered me again.
Even if they didn't care about me personally, the fact that they were a hairsbreadth away from losing a student on school grounds, in school hours, scared the bejesus out of them.
Contrast that with the two public schools I attended - I was a gifted student and my parents fought the admin all the way to try to put me into special programs. If it wasn't for one or two teachers who took an interest in me, I'd still be waiting for Bulwinkle over there to figure out that three goes into six two times, so the rest of the class could move on. Oh, and nobody there gave a damn that I got the crap kicked out of me, either. I was told, at one point, that if I hit back I'd be expelled.
Except it's not the prisoner's dilemma (as classically stated), because cooperation will always return less than cheating, and double-betrayal returns equal to cooperation. Eg. I assign you 1/100th share and you assign me 1/100th share - equal shares, we both split the proceeds equally. If I assign you 1/2 share, and you assign me 1/2 share, we both split the proceeds equally. If I assign you 1/100th share and you assign me 1/2 share, I walk away with almost everything. I've not RTFA, so I'm not sure if that's what they are doing exactly, but if so there is no incentive to cooperate under that schema.
That's disconcertingly close to what I actually do.
If he says you can, it's not plagarism... well, unless you then claim you wrote them in the first place.
Yes, just like that - only with more intrusiveness.
OMG? How did they get a copy of my bookmarks list?
Shutting down criminal websites is exactly the solution, not just censoring them along with other random legal things. Yes, all of the illegal websites on the list are probably outside Australia's jurisdiction - but that's ok, because downloading stuff from such websites is in itself a crime (and thus said criminals can be themselves shutdown and imprisoned). There are ways and means of dealing with the problem which doesn't involve establishing an easily abused content control infrastructure.
Why would you want opt-out, instead of opt-in? I don't particularly like the idea of having to go to an ISP and identifying myself directly as either a subversive or a pervert. Much easier, don't you think, to have all those people out there who do want something like this to opt-in, so they can be easily identified as people who need someone else to regulate their internet use.
XKCD tells us "Science: It works, Bitches", but in truth, it's engineering that proves it to us day by day.