For my art project, I'm making a big obvious bomb shaped object, like one of the cartoon bombs or like a stack of TNT. It will also be a lamp, with the wick hidden inside the fuse, so that it looks like a lit fuse but can burn for hours and be refilled. And I'll label it "This is not a bomb" (in French, of course).
The journalists reporting on this article don't know the first thing about evolution. First of all, much evolution can happen without a creature's shape changing. Which is especially true when the creature's shape is incredibly, mindnumbingly simple. Secondly, it falsely states that evolution doesn't happen in a stable environment. No, in a stable environment there would simply be less environmental natural selection. This means less selection for things such as changing the thickness of the fur coat to adapt to the temperature. However, there will still be competition within the own species, occasional but far less likely adaptations to the environment, and especially an accumulation random mutations which neither increase nor decrease fitness.
Homeschooled children have one of the most important factors contributing to a student's academic success: parents who are highly interested in their child getting a good education. As for homeschooling itself, it is a mixed bag. Some parents make good teachers, some don't. Some public schools are especially good, others especially bad. Some children have certain traits that would make them a bad fit with public school, or would benefit from a faster pace. Homeschooled children run the risk of being socially stunted (especially so for those who would most appreciate not having to deal with people). You said you wanted statistics; I think a relevant one is that colleges seem to prefer homeschooled children over public schooled (but see first sentence).
There are materials available to help with homeschooling. These are probably a good idea unless you really really know what you're doing (which you don't). Even if you don't strictly follow them they can act as guidelines for pace/quantity/topics. You mentioned that your wife, a high school dropout, would be the teacher. Are you sure she has the perseverance to homeschool your children? (Amount of perseverance required of her depends on the amount of perseverance of your children.) You should also see if there are any local homeschoolers and see if you can join forces, or at least talk to someone with personal experience.
Well, peanuts do kill more Americans than do terrorists. In 2001 the terrorists killed more than peanuts that year, but overall peanuts are still more dangerous. And with rising food allergies, it can only get worse.
Now we just need to find a middle-eastern country to blame and invade. I hear they have lots of delicious nuts who think we are the Great Salt-on. I mean, oil. I mean, weapons of mass destruction.
Lots of people totally lost their shit over this despite the fact that HPV can cause cancer and the vaccine is effective
Bah, I bet that if Rick Perry found a cure for cancer the conservatives would complain that he was immoral and that people's virtue would protect them from cancer.
I don't inherently have a problem with ads, not even with ads tailored to my personal preferences (which I would actually prefer over random ads). I'd even be willing to check a few boxes to mark my interests.
However, that's just not good enough for the marketing companies. They want flashy ads that distract from the page I'm reading, they want to track my every move, they want to sell my data, they want to run scripts on my computer, they want popups, popunders, redirects, accidental clicks, they would cheerfully ruin the user experience if it would get them one more click. And they don't want to check whether the ads their showing are links to scams, frauds, malware, or even if the ads themselves contain malware. They'll cheerfully commit outright fraud while pretending to be advertisers (eg "virus detected on your computer" style ads). And some websites have changed their design to have a little bit of text with mountains of ads, sometimes with a load-the-ads-first system, sometimes splitting a page's worth of content into 10 pages to show more ads, and generally treating advertizing companies as their customer and users as their product.
Systemd's rising popularity is due solely to its quality. There is no conspiracy, and definitely no conspiracy by a government agency who wishes to have remote access to your computer, no reason other than quality for systemd to be so popular.
I wonder how quickly allergies to vaccination would miraculously improve, and religious objections to vaccines magically evaporate, if there were a "liability" section on your health insurance.
There's equal opportunities and then there's equal opportunities. Do the son of a billionaire and the son of of a homeless teenager have equal opportunity? Should they? Is offering them both "free" public education unfair because the billionaire's son will choose a private school instead?
What about a group of people who's grandparents were treated unfairly by another group's grandparents, and as a result they were more likely to grow up with poor parents and all the disadvantages that come with that, while the other group was more likely to grow up with relatively richer parents and all the advantages that come with it. Is it fair/equal to favor the former at the expense of the latter to counteract the lingering effects of the previously unfair treatment? And if the previous unfairness is not counteracted resulting in resentment, or it is counteracted resulting in different resentment, what's the equitable way to deal with that?
Is it unequal for people with more money to be more influential in shaping our laws? Or would it be unequal if a burger-flipping highschool dropout was as influential in shaping our laws as a successful businessman?
Good luck answering any of those questions in a way that isn't merely personal opinion.
Point is, life's not fair. Trying to make it more fair is worthwhile, yet extremely difficult, and trying too hard to make life fair would cause more damage than it could fix.
You can't seriously be advocating against choice because... Linux? Seriously?
Correct, I'm not and the post you're replying to implies that I think the having the choice is a good thing. Just because I understand other people, doesn't mean I agree with them.
Anyone who falls for such transparent hacking attempts deserves what they get.
Well, considering that these are people who are willing to risk their lives to fight against the government, possibly having been recruited by social engineering, they might not be the sort of people who give a crap about risk. Or to put it another way, having a lot of balls may make them more susceptible to booby traps (now featuring real boobies!).
Also, forgive me if I don't cheer for either side, when one side is the oppressive dictators favoring an unpopular secular/Shi'ite religious view, and the other side is the rebels favoring a more oppressive Sunni religious regime.
But now that the secret's out, won't Udemy be flooded with lectures by people wanting to make $1,000 a day?
I hope so! More education available in a format that can be infinitely reproduced at near zero marginal cost will put some bounds on the cost and quality of traditional education, as they will be rightly afraid of losing business if they don't perform.
Turns out that producing a product worth thousands (a piece of college-level education) is worth more than producing a random app of worth a couple dollars and which might be a flop.
And good for him. Thanks to his efforts, we're one little step closer to education actually being free to everyone (instead of merely subsidized by taxpayers and limited to people of the correct nationality).
No, a threat is a threat. If I threaten to make you disappear, and you don't feel that I'm joking, you won't care whether I added "by using magic" as how I would do it.
Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you as to their having a "zero intelligence" policy.
You have a good reason to not want Windows on a Pi?
And for tactical reasons if I don't personally want Windows on a Pi then I don't want others to run Windows on a Pi either. Others having that option means that the Pi community is split, and in particular that less resources would go to Linux on a Pi. Whether the option will be good for other people I can't say, since I don't know the balance of having more programs that could run on it vs Windows eating more resources or being buggy.
*Disclaimer: I don't own a Pi, just explaining that people do have a reason to disapprove of others having this option. Though I imagine the manufacturers approving of this option means they think it is worthwhile.
Does music cost $20 a song and come with a 5 minute unskippable warning against piracy, and 10 minutes of unskippable trailers for other songs? But for some products if you want quality you have to pirate it. I know some people who will buy a movie to be legit/support the industry, and then pirate it because it is less trouble than the CD.
But you would dictate what collectives other must participate in.
Nope. But a truly collective effort is done by everyone, even people who would rather not.
If you have good ideas people will participate.
Nope. Just because something is worthwhile doing as a collective effort, doesn't mean that people will volunteer their own resources for the benefit of others. Would you spend your own money to repair a decrepit public bridge, or even a simple pothole?
I pay too many taxes now, and they get wasted on an interest only payment on the largest debt ever accumulated.
Proof positive that what I say is true -- people want more stuff but don't want to pay for it, and they direct their politicians such. You were just advocating that people volunteer contributions for everyone else's benefit rather than force everyone to contribute; now you're complaining that you have to contribute to pay off the debt your parents accumulated. Turns out most people don't like others taking advantage of them.
Wonder what would happen if debt and its interest payments had to be paid off by the people on who's behalf the money was spent?
Support is fine until it comes out of a paycheck.. then, no flipping way. Watch what happens when Walmart shoppers are asked to pay higher prices for higher wages: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Obviously, did you expect that people are stupid? I support higher taxes (and more services), but I'm not willing to volunteer that money if other people won't. A collective effort is nearly worthless if it is just a couple people. Some things may be worth doing as a volunteer, other things it is best to insist be done as a collective. And in no case would I give that money to some sleazy looking guy outside a store.
Easy to say, when you don't have to choose between doing what you love for a morally dubious master vs getting a crap job. And it's not even as if most of the results couldn't be used just as well for good as for evil.
Selecting "automatically update" doesn't actually automatically update. It just causes it to complain that an update is available every time you reboot and/or log on.
It is necessary to do it that way, otherwise they wouldn't get permission to install malware. Without that dialogue box the installed malware wouldn't be legit.
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Using the work of a luminary like Alan Turing is such a way is insulating!
Sad to see that yet another person, when faced with the problem of our reliance on fossil fuels, turns to alcohol.
I'd tell them to get off my lawn, but if there's a chance they can turn my grass into fuel for my car, I guess I'll let them stay.
For my art project, I'm making a big obvious bomb shaped object, like one of the cartoon bombs or like a stack of TNT. It will also be a lamp, with the wick hidden inside the fuse, so that it looks like a lit fuse but can burn for hours and be refilled. And I'll label it "This is not a bomb" (in French, of course).
I heard that one of the suspects had a Canon. Also a news crew on the scene reported that they were taking shots.
The journalists reporting on this article don't know the first thing about evolution. First of all, much evolution can happen without a creature's shape changing. Which is especially true when the creature's shape is incredibly, mindnumbingly simple. Secondly, it falsely states that evolution doesn't happen in a stable environment. No, in a stable environment there would simply be less environmental natural selection. This means less selection for things such as changing the thickness of the fur coat to adapt to the temperature. However, there will still be competition within the own species, occasional but far less likely adaptations to the environment, and especially an accumulation random mutations which neither increase nor decrease fitness.
Homeschooled children have one of the most important factors contributing to a student's academic success: parents who are highly interested in their child getting a good education. As for homeschooling itself, it is a mixed bag. Some parents make good teachers, some don't. Some public schools are especially good, others especially bad. Some children have certain traits that would make them a bad fit with public school, or would benefit from a faster pace. Homeschooled children run the risk of being socially stunted (especially so for those who would most appreciate not having to deal with people). You said you wanted statistics; I think a relevant one is that colleges seem to prefer homeschooled children over public schooled (but see first sentence).
There are materials available to help with homeschooling. These are probably a good idea unless you really really know what you're doing (which you don't). Even if you don't strictly follow them they can act as guidelines for pace/quantity/topics. You mentioned that your wife, a high school dropout, would be the teacher. Are you sure she has the perseverance to homeschool your children? (Amount of perseverance required of her depends on the amount of perseverance of your children.) You should also see if there are any local homeschoolers and see if you can join forces, or at least talk to someone with personal experience.
Well, peanuts do kill more Americans than do terrorists. In 2001 the terrorists killed more than peanuts that year, but overall peanuts are still more dangerous. And with rising food allergies, it can only get worse.
Now we just need to find a middle-eastern country to blame and invade. I hear they have lots of delicious nuts who think we are the Great Salt-on. I mean, oil. I mean, weapons of mass destruction.
p>If you recall, Rick Perry mandated HPV vaccinations in 2007.
Lots of people totally lost their shit over this despite the fact that HPV can cause cancer and the vaccine is effective
Bah, I bet that if Rick Perry found a cure for cancer the conservatives would complain that he was immoral and that people's virtue would protect them from cancer.
I don't inherently have a problem with ads, not even with ads tailored to my personal preferences (which I would actually prefer over random ads). I'd even be willing to check a few boxes to mark my interests.
However, that's just not good enough for the marketing companies. They want flashy ads that distract from the page I'm reading, they want to track my every move, they want to sell my data, they want to run scripts on my computer, they want popups, popunders, redirects, accidental clicks, they would cheerfully ruin the user experience if it would get them one more click. And they don't want to check whether the ads their showing are links to scams, frauds, malware, or even if the ads themselves contain malware. They'll cheerfully commit outright fraud while pretending to be advertisers (eg "virus detected on your computer" style ads). And some websites have changed their design to have a little bit of text with mountains of ads, sometimes with a load-the-ads-first system, sometimes splitting a page's worth of content into 10 pages to show more ads, and generally treating advertizing companies as their customer and users as their product.
And so for my sanity I have to use AdBlock.
Systemd's rising popularity is due solely to its quality. There is no conspiracy, and definitely no conspiracy by a government agency who wishes to have remote access to your computer, no reason other than quality for systemd to be so popular.
I wonder how quickly allergies to vaccination would miraculously improve, and religious objections to vaccines magically evaporate, if there were a "liability" section on your health insurance.
There's equal opportunities and then there's equal opportunities. Do the son of a billionaire and the son of of a homeless teenager have equal opportunity? Should they? Is offering them both "free" public education unfair because the billionaire's son will choose a private school instead?
What about a group of people who's grandparents were treated unfairly by another group's grandparents, and as a result they were more likely to grow up with poor parents and all the disadvantages that come with that, while the other group was more likely to grow up with relatively richer parents and all the advantages that come with it. Is it fair/equal to favor the former at the expense of the latter to counteract the lingering effects of the previously unfair treatment? And if the previous unfairness is not counteracted resulting in resentment, or it is counteracted resulting in different resentment, what's the equitable way to deal with that?
Is it unequal for people with more money to be more influential in shaping our laws? Or would it be unequal if a burger-flipping highschool dropout was as influential in shaping our laws as a successful businessman?
Good luck answering any of those questions in a way that isn't merely personal opinion.
Point is, life's not fair. Trying to make it more fair is worthwhile, yet extremely difficult, and trying too hard to make life fair would cause more damage than it could fix.
The job of educators is to educate people, not make life simple for some company's HR department.
You can't seriously be advocating against choice because... Linux? Seriously?
Correct, I'm not and the post you're replying to implies that I think the having the choice is a good thing. Just because I understand other people, doesn't mean I agree with them.
Anyone who falls for such transparent hacking attempts deserves what they get.
Well, considering that these are people who are willing to risk their lives to fight against the government, possibly having been recruited by social engineering, they might not be the sort of people who give a crap about risk. Or to put it another way, having a lot of balls may make them more susceptible to booby traps (now featuring real boobies!).
Also, forgive me if I don't cheer for either side, when one side is the oppressive dictators favoring an unpopular secular/Shi'ite religious view, and the other side is the rebels favoring a more oppressive Sunni religious regime.
But now that the secret's out, won't Udemy be flooded with lectures by people wanting to make $1,000 a day?
I hope so! More education available in a format that can be infinitely reproduced at near zero marginal cost will put some bounds on the cost and quality of traditional education, as they will be rightly afraid of losing business if they don't perform.
Turns out that producing a product worth thousands (a piece of college-level education) is worth more than producing a random app of worth a couple dollars and which might be a flop.
And good for him. Thanks to his efforts, we're one little step closer to education actually being free to everyone (instead of merely subsidized by taxpayers and limited to people of the correct nationality).
More like "zero intelligence" policy.
No, a threat is a threat. If I threaten to make you disappear, and you don't feel that I'm joking, you won't care whether I added "by using magic" as how I would do it.
Not that I'm necessarily disagreeing with you as to their having a "zero intelligence" policy.
You have a good reason to not want Windows on a Pi?
And for tactical reasons if I don't personally want Windows on a Pi then I don't want others to run Windows on a Pi either. Others having that option means that the Pi community is split, and in particular that less resources would go to Linux on a Pi. Whether the option will be good for other people I can't say, since I don't know the balance of having more programs that could run on it vs Windows eating more resources or being buggy.
*Disclaimer: I don't own a Pi, just explaining that people do have a reason to disapprove of others having this option. Though I imagine the manufacturers approving of this option means they think it is worthwhile.
Does music cost $20 a song and come with a 5 minute unskippable warning against piracy, and 10 minutes of unskippable trailers for other songs? But for some products if you want quality you have to pirate it. I know some people who will buy a movie to be legit/support the industry, and then pirate it because it is less trouble than the CD.
Agreed; this is definitely vaporware.
But you would dictate what collectives other must participate in.
Nope. But a truly collective effort is done by everyone, even people who would rather not.
If you have good ideas people will participate.
Nope. Just because something is worthwhile doing as a collective effort, doesn't mean that people will volunteer their own resources for the benefit of others. Would you spend your own money to repair a decrepit public bridge, or even a simple pothole?
I pay too many taxes now, and they get wasted on an interest only payment on the largest debt ever accumulated.
Proof positive that what I say is true -- people want more stuff but don't want to pay for it, and they direct their politicians such. You were just advocating that people volunteer contributions for everyone else's benefit rather than force everyone to contribute; now you're complaining that you have to contribute to pay off the debt your parents accumulated. Turns out most people don't like others taking advantage of them.
Wonder what would happen if debt and its interest payments had to be paid off by the people on who's behalf the money was spent?
Support is fine until it comes out of a paycheck.. then, no flipping way.
Watch what happens when Walmart shoppers are asked to pay higher prices for higher wages:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Obviously, did you expect that people are stupid? I support higher taxes (and more services), but I'm not willing to volunteer that money if other people won't. A collective effort is nearly worthless if it is just a couple people. Some things may be worth doing as a volunteer, other things it is best to insist be done as a collective. And in no case would I give that money to some sleazy looking guy outside a store.
Shame on them
Easy to say, when you don't have to choose between doing what you love for a morally dubious master vs getting a crap job. And it's not even as if most of the results couldn't be used just as well for good as for evil.
Selecting "automatically update" doesn't actually automatically update. It just causes it to complain that an update is available every time you reboot and/or log on.
It is necessary to do it that way, otherwise they wouldn't get permission to install malware. Without that dialogue box the installed malware wouldn't be legit.