Dismissiveness, making excuses and belittling are easier than learning. Painting in broad strokes, wrapped in patronizing pity. i've read the same boiler plate apologism many times.
"Oh you poor little atheists/liberals/environmentalists/vegan/$groupThatPeopleDismissAsSmug."
If your post has any truth to it, teachers and instructors of all kinds and levels are 'truly pitiable creatures'.
No, it's mostly that people don't like learning they're wrong or have made a mistake. Instead of learning, they name call and pout (and sometimes they pout eloquently). If someone corrected my bowling technique or process for solving an equation or understanding of some subject, i try to be adult about it and learn. Or i could choose ignorance, or worse be dismissive of the other person.
It's like the guy with the BMW and hot wife. A loser sees him on the street and assumes the guy must be unhappy or that he has ulcers or something... ANYTHING to avoid admitting the truth of his envy and self loathing. It's the jock who makes fun of the nerd who earns better grades. The nerd making fun of the jock for being a meat head who can run faster, lift more and is banging the head cheerleader.
Can a modmin please edit the summary to include the passive bokodes that DON'T need batteries? About half of the repliers to this thread DNWtFV*, and missed that bit.
It's the Law of One Problem at a Time. Governments and scientists can work on exactly one problem at a time. This is why we don't have a cure for cancer... too many people designing cars, looking at stars or looking for cures for viruses. If all of the scientists worked on JUST cancer, we'd have a cure. Likewise with governments, we can't deal with our economy AND health care. We should either fix the banks or fix health care and let the other problem just simmer until the first is resolved. We can't let banks go bankrupt, so we must let people go bankrupt from their medical bills. Just for a while, as soon as the economy is righted, we can set our sails for the next problem (which might be the environment, or something else).
Until we cure cancer, or AIDS (whichever we pick), we should not allow any further funding or research into other distractions. Indeed we should require all college students to study oncology or virology. No more art majors, MBAs, lawyers, thespians... just research scientists working on cancer. We can't let cancer go uncured because some kid feels passionately about software design or political science.
i question this phrase: far more susceptible to advertising. It might mean instead that Bing is BETTER at getting users to the information they (think) they want. If a 100 users search for frozen pizza, and Bing users are clicking through to stores and frozen pizza brand names, that doesn't mean they're chumps. It means the service is connecting them to what they want. It means they want a fucking frozen pizza. Advertising is how you get people to know you exist. Testing something is how you determine if you like something. i think it could be just as bad to use only one search engine forever... you wouldn't know what you were missing. Maybe ads are exactly what people are trying to find. Not all searches end at.orgs. Sometimes people want products.
Did you go to yagoogoo.com today? No. Because you didn't know it existed because they don't have the advertising budget to reach you, nor have they established enough word of mouth traffic because they have only 5 users. But those 5 users must be brilliant because they never clicked on the AdSense links!
It might also mean that users are curious about something new. Bing is new. "Hey, let's see what Bing has to offer". That's not necessarily gullibility. Bing will have a period growth as people figure out if they like it or not. How do we know they've switched at all? They might go back to Google in a week, or they might not. Bing will have some growth for a while and then they'll reach some sort of saturation. As novelty wears off, they might lose some of that growth. That's all very natural. Growth can't be unlimited, they can only take some share of the existing market. However, it might not cost Google and Yahoo much of their market anyway, as people might bounce between the various engines. i might use Bing when i'm on someone else's computer and go back to Google on my own. Maybe i'll want to compare results and use Google and Bing./hasn't used Bing
It diminishes the value of what the other players have EARNED.
If i spent days working on an item or questing for some special item, and your mom just goes and buys it for you... what the hell was the point of me earning it the hard way? It makes honest players feel like suckers.
It's not cheating in that it is not against the rules, Blizzard WANTS players to gold farm and twink. But it's certainly unfair for people to players who can't afford to buy imaginary property with real money, it's also unsportsmanlike. It also makes gold farming sweatshops possible, which is dubious at best.
It's arrogant to want a game to be fair or for players to earn their stripes rather than buy them? Life is unfair enough as it is, thank you. i play games to get away from constant reminders of how the game of life is so terribly stacked against me.
RULES? In a GAME?!?! Oh the horror! How DARE we expect fairness from a game?!
There's a web game called Kingdom of Loathing. It's a funny MMO with stick figure drawings and meat is the currency. i was happily leveling up and doing the quests. i introduced my brother to the game. He started hanging out in the chat rooms and other players started giving him quest items and meat. He did in a few weeks what took me a few months. It was like the devs took a big steaming shit on my head and said "fuck you, sucker!". i quit and never returned. But fairness doesn't matter to everyone, i guess.
What i would like to see in MRPGs are no-trade servers. This would allow honest players to compete/play with only other honest players. Or maybe there could be a status on your character that says you're not a twink. While you have that status, maybe you get an XP bonus, or better sale prices with NPCs.
This is why my game of choice is PlanetSide: it requires skill, knowledge of the game, team work, strategy, there's no farming, no twinking, no grinding, no n00bst0mping, no Chinese gold farmers (but there are Chinese players).... Buying a character would only give you flexibility, not an instagibbing mass murdering machine.
My vote as a former USAF intel analyst is that this is a good move. We have plenty of them already and we can put that money to use in myriad other ways, for defense and other purposes. The 22 is bad ass and worth every penny, but i'd rather see more spent on HumInt or humanitarian stuff.
You're supposed to congratulate him on being all culturally thenthative, you capitalist bourgeois pig! He has to impress the boyish looking girl at the campus bookstore with quotes from Zinn and Chomski.
It's an easily avoidable boogie man. Just like drunk driving. You don't have to drink/text/phone and drive. Dying because some twat just HAD to tell her friend about her new shoes is a shitty way to go. Losing use of my car for a week because some teenybopper just had to OMGLOL @ a n00b... sucks.
Pull over, or wait until you get home to gossip. There is absolutely no excuse for it.
Seeing MEN yammering on cell phones is even worse... he's being irresponsible AND a wuss. Talk to your boyfriend about the big game when you get home, Nancy.
There are bigger threats on the road, but that doesn't mean we can't address so simple a threat.
What is the diminishing return on saving lives from stupid ways to die? Banning cell phones WOULD be an irrational response. Taking away licenses of people caught texting and driving is appropriate. At a minimum your insurance company should be able to wash their hands of someone who causes an accident this way.
It comes down to being an adult, really. A child does what it wants, when it wants. Merely seeking reward and avoiding punishment. An adult understands the possible consequences of an action and makes the right choice.
Where i live, northern Virginia, i am constantly dodging high strung, arrogant BMW driving assholes who change lanes w/o signaling while gossiping like twelve year olds. They don't have the right to endanger my life for their convenience.
i like the idea. Almost like insurance. Making it work would be tricky. Seems a bit like hiring an army to protect us from the mafia. Paying a shark to protect us from the other sharks.
i'd rather see a class action suit to shut down RIAA or reimburse their victims for abusing our legal system.
This is why i say that we shouldn't focus on making class sizes smaller, but on putting more adults in the classroom. Imagine if each class had a teacher in the front and another in the back. Or a parent. The teacher can focus on teaching and the assistant can be the eyes in the back of the teacher's head.
And yeah, i agree with separating kids by behavior and interest level. Get the problem kids together, give them the attention they crave, and work on getting them to WANT to play along and to WANT to be in the other class. Not by threats of being a failure or punishment, but helping them understand the benefits. By teaching them that they CAN do well. i didn't know i could get good grades until i was a Junior in high school, by then it was too late.
Hardware. The software that connects users to torrents. It might not be much more than a search engine and a database, but it's code. What that is worth is up for debate.
Ebay's content is the similar. Ebay doesn't sell you a used blender, it sells adspace to used blender salesmen.
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Dismissiveness, making excuses and belittling are easier than learning. Painting in broad strokes, wrapped in patronizing pity. i've read the same boiler plate apologism many times.
"Oh you poor little atheists/liberals/environmentalists/vegan/$groupThatPeopleDismissAsSmug."
If your post has any truth to it, teachers and instructors of all kinds and levels are 'truly pitiable creatures'.
No, it's mostly that people don't like learning they're wrong or have made a mistake. Instead of learning, they name call and pout (and sometimes they pout eloquently). If someone corrected my bowling technique or process for solving an equation or understanding of some subject, i try to be adult about it and learn. Or i could choose ignorance, or worse be dismissive of the other person.
It's like the guy with the BMW and hot wife. A loser sees him on the street and assumes the guy must be unhappy or that he has ulcers or something... ANYTHING to avoid admitting the truth of his envy and self loathing. It's the jock who makes fun of the nerd who earns better grades. The nerd making fun of the jock for being a meat head who can run faster, lift more and is banging the head cheerleader.
*yawn*
Hehe. Nice.
Thanks for that addition to my sig and quote collection:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dhs623jg_9f5s8rg
As you grew up you should have learned the difference between opinions and facts.
Did Not Watch the Fine Video.
Pedantic is French for "stop making me aware of my ignorance!". Grammar snob/nazi and prescriptivist, likewise.
Don't apologize for correcting someone's error. If they are offended, that's their insecurity.
Can a modmin please edit the summary to include the passive bokodes that DON'T need batteries? About half of the repliers to this thread DNWtFV*, and missed that bit.
Did you catch the part about the passive tags that don't needs LEDs or batteries?
It's the Law of One Problem at a Time. Governments and scientists can work on exactly one problem at a time. This is why we don't have a cure for cancer... too many people designing cars, looking at stars or looking for cures for viruses. If all of the scientists worked on JUST cancer, we'd have a cure. Likewise with governments, we can't deal with our economy AND health care. We should either fix the banks or fix health care and let the other problem just simmer until the first is resolved. We can't let banks go bankrupt, so we must let people go bankrupt from their medical bills. Just for a while, as soon as the economy is righted, we can set our sails for the next problem (which might be the environment, or something else).
Until we cure cancer, or AIDS (whichever we pick), we should not allow any further funding or research into other distractions. Indeed we should require all college students to study oncology or virology. No more art majors, MBAs, lawyers, thespians... just research scientists working on cancer. We can't let cancer go uncured because some kid feels passionately about software design or political science.
Duh! Only YOU have to provide citations. I'm right, so I don't have to.
i question this phrase: far more susceptible to advertising. It might mean instead that Bing is BETTER at getting users to the information they (think) they want. If a 100 users search for frozen pizza, and Bing users are clicking through to stores and frozen pizza brand names, that doesn't mean they're chumps. It means the service is connecting them to what they want. It means they want a fucking frozen pizza. Advertising is how you get people to know you exist. Testing something is how you determine if you like something. i think it could be just as bad to use only one search engine forever... you wouldn't know what you were missing. Maybe ads are exactly what people are trying to find. Not all searches end at .orgs. Sometimes people want products.
Did you go to yagoogoo.com today? No. Because you didn't know it existed because they don't have the advertising budget to reach you, nor have they established enough word of mouth traffic because they have only 5 users. But those 5 users must be brilliant because they never clicked on the AdSense links!
It might also mean that users are curious about something new. Bing is new. "Hey, let's see what Bing has to offer". That's not necessarily gullibility. Bing will have a period growth as people figure out if they like it or not. How do we know they've switched at all? They might go back to Google in a week, or they might not. Bing will have some growth for a while and then they'll reach some sort of saturation. As novelty wears off, they might lose some of that growth. That's all very natural. Growth can't be unlimited, they can only take some share of the existing market. However, it might not cost Google and Yahoo much of their market anyway, as people might bounce between the various engines. i might use Bing when i'm on someone else's computer and go back to Google on my own. Maybe i'll want to compare results and use Google and Bing. /hasn't used Bing
"You have anemia."
Crap.
Since the Earth is flat (with the Sun orbiting around it), this should be a cinch.
When we find the edge of the Earth we can push all the Darwinists off!
Should be modded insightful.
Gods damned descriptivists.
It diminishes the value of what the other players have EARNED.
If i spent days working on an item or questing for some special item, and your mom just goes and buys it for you... what the hell was the point of me earning it the hard way? It makes honest players feel like suckers.
It's not cheating in that it is not against the rules, Blizzard WANTS players to gold farm and twink. But it's certainly unfair for people to players who can't afford to buy imaginary property with real money, it's also unsportsmanlike. It also makes gold farming sweatshops possible, which is dubious at best.
It's arrogant to want a game to be fair or for players to earn their stripes rather than buy them? Life is unfair enough as it is, thank you. i play games to get away from constant reminders of how the game of life is so terribly stacked against me.
RULES? In a GAME?!?! Oh the horror! How DARE we expect fairness from a game?!
There's a web game called Kingdom of Loathing. It's a funny MMO with stick figure drawings and meat is the currency. i was happily leveling up and doing the quests. i introduced my brother to the game. He started hanging out in the chat rooms and other players started giving him quest items and meat. He did in a few weeks what took me a few months. It was like the devs took a big steaming shit on my head and said "fuck you, sucker!". i quit and never returned. But fairness doesn't matter to everyone, i guess.
What i would like to see in MRPGs are no-trade servers. This would allow honest players to compete/play with only other honest players. Or maybe there could be a status on your character that says you're not a twink. While you have that status, maybe you get an XP bonus, or better sale prices with NPCs.
This is why my game of choice is PlanetSide: it requires skill, knowledge of the game, team work, strategy, there's no farming, no twinking, no grinding, no n00bst0mping, no Chinese gold farmers (but there are Chinese players).... Buying a character would only give you flexibility, not an instagibbing mass murdering machine.
My vote as a former USAF intel analyst is that this is a good move. We have plenty of them already and we can put that money to use in myriad other ways, for defense and other purposes. The 22 is bad ass and worth every penny, but i'd rather see more spent on HumInt or humanitarian stuff.
On some futurist show a company invented square, vertical mindmills that birds and bats could see and thereby dodge. They were also more efficient.
Anyone else hear of those and can provide a link?
You're supposed to congratulate him on being all culturally thenthative, you capitalist bourgeois pig! He has to impress the boyish looking girl at the campus bookstore with quotes from Zinn and Chomski.
It's an easily avoidable boogie man. Just like drunk driving. You don't have to drink/text/phone and drive. Dying because some twat just HAD to tell her friend about her new shoes is a shitty way to go. Losing use of my car for a week because some teenybopper just had to OMGLOL @ a n00b... sucks.
Pull over, or wait until you get home to gossip. There is absolutely no excuse for it.
Seeing MEN yammering on cell phones is even worse... he's being irresponsible AND a wuss. Talk to your boyfriend about the big game when you get home, Nancy.
There are bigger threats on the road, but that doesn't mean we can't address so simple a threat.
What is the diminishing return on saving lives from stupid ways to die? Banning cell phones WOULD be an irrational response. Taking away licenses of people caught texting and driving is appropriate. At a minimum your insurance company should be able to wash their hands of someone who causes an accident this way.
It comes down to being an adult, really. A child does what it wants, when it wants. Merely seeking reward and avoiding punishment. An adult understands the possible consequences of an action and makes the right choice.
Where i live, northern Virginia, i am constantly dodging high strung, arrogant BMW driving assholes who change lanes w/o signaling while gossiping like twelve year olds. They don't have the right to endanger my life for their convenience.
Nuclear... the OTHER n-word Americans are phobic about.
Why are there tags in the headline?
i like the idea. Almost like insurance. Making it work would be tricky. Seems a bit like hiring an army to protect us from the mafia. Paying a shark to protect us from the other sharks.
i'd rather see a class action suit to shut down RIAA or reimburse their victims for abusing our legal system.
U2 is overrated.
Who put astroglide on this slope?
This is why i say that we shouldn't focus on making class sizes smaller, but on putting more adults in the classroom. Imagine if each class had a teacher in the front and another in the back. Or a parent. The teacher can focus on teaching and the assistant can be the eyes in the back of the teacher's head.
And yeah, i agree with separating kids by behavior and interest level. Get the problem kids together, give them the attention they crave, and work on getting them to WANT to play along and to WANT to be in the other class. Not by threats of being a failure or punishment, but helping them understand the benefits. By teaching them that they CAN do well. i didn't know i could get good grades until i was a Junior in high school, by then it was too late.
Hardware. The software that connects users to torrents. It might not be much more than a search engine and a database, but it's code. What that is worth is up for debate.
Ebay's content is the similar. Ebay doesn't sell you a used blender, it sells adspace to used blender salesmen.