Oh, and regarding the actual article, no CO2 from the alcohol industry is on a wholly different scale from CO2 emissions from industry and transport.
It's like wondering if you peeing in the ocean when you go for a swim is making a difference to global oceanic warming because, after all, your pee is quite warm.
Over THERE wherever the poster is from, THEIR education system is so bad that THEY'RE making repeated mistakes over and over. THERE needs to be an improvement in THEIR attitude towards THEIR literacy. As long as THERE exists a culture of flippancy towards being properly literate, THEIR children will always respond to people correcting THEIR use of language with indignant responses scoffing at the need to be accurate in the use of language. THEY'RE constantly talking about things like "evolution of language" and that THERE have been many changes in the use of words over history, but THEIR mistake stems from the fact that THEY'RE completely disregarding the difference between language evolving to meet different circumstances, and language devolving due to the apathy and ignorance of those who speak it.
IT tech: Do you know if your workstation has a virus? User: I don't know. It might. The other day I was typing something and something popped up I can't remember what it said but I think it had something to do with virus scanners but I can't remember and then there was this time I downloaded this thing and it said something about my computer being infected but I can't remember if I clicked it or not and then another one [etc etc etc for 20 minutes]
Which would happen once for every node on the network, would become this:
root@admin:~$ nmap 192.168.0.* -confickercheck
Nice. Seriously, nice. Now we just need to work out a way to remotely ask a computer if the printer cable is properly plugged in, and we're set.
While that comic is funny, its message is incorrect. Simply teaching people to hold their ideas up to experiment is not only insufficient from a scientific perspective, it dangerously propagates ignorance.
Misconceived ideas can be turned into accepted fact by flawed, or worse, deliberately contrived experimentation methodologies. Once fallacies have been accepted as fact, correcting the collective wisdom is so much harder. Even if subsequent experiment laid bare the flaws in the original conception, the truth now has a far greater obstacle in its path than simple ignorance; it now has to overcome accepted falsehood.
Jackass is for people who are retarded and have resigned themselves to that fact. Mythbusters is for Jackass viewers who are in denial. There is no science or intellectual content on it. It is to science what Jackass is to athletics.
BP paid a fine of $20m for the spill, and allowed its management to come under the review of Alaskan regulators. They also submitted to future regulation of activities in Prodhoe Bay.
Union Carbide brought all their staff home and refused to allow them to face charges in India.
The US is the most polluting country in the world, both in absolute terms and per capita.
Environmental damage that happens in other countries counts as US caused if it's done by US corporations. E.g., the Union Carbide disaster may have happened in India, but it was a US corporation that caused it.
Come now, take responsibility for your (collective) actions.
The Heisenberg principle refers to the fact that in order to observe something, you need to look at it. Looking at it requires light to bounce off it.
If what you are looking at is an electron, then the single photon that you'd detect bouncing off it would tell you where the electron had been, but because electrons are so small, that single photon would have moved it. Thus, you'd know where the electron had been *before* the photon hit it, but not where it was now.
There is actually a whole lot more to it, but that's it conceptually.
Being religious, I call it the God Limit. Essentially, no matter how smart we become, even in 10 million years if we evolve to energy beings, transcend death itself and become One Single Consciousness, the Heisenberg principle means that we can never know everything about everything. That will always be the line between us and God. YMMV depending on your theological stance.
For years we (the FOSS community) have been bemoaning Windows' poor, totally broken security model. Now, when MS attempts to fix that and inevitably breaks applications that rely on the previous totally broken security model, we want to whine and moan about backwards compatibility?
Are we going to whine the same way if IE8 standardizes but breaks web pages that rely on IE7/IE6?
Seriously, there are some among us that simply will not be satisfied, and they are making the whole FOSS community look like a bunch of children.
Yea, because excess corn in the US finds its way into the mouths of starving Africans.
The food shortage myth is propagated by oil companies so that whenever someone talks about a carbon cycle neutral crop alternative to fossil fuels, they can say "but think of the poor starving people!".If you want to know what big oil thinks about starving people go have a look at Shell's history of dealing with Nigerian villages, or Chevron's dealings with Ecuadorian natives. Big oil's obnoxious effort to feign concern over the welfare of the poverty stricken makes me sick.
The only reason food crops (such as corn, which is horribly inefficient as a fuel crop) are used is due to the insane subsidies that the US government offers them. Of course, the US government would never subsidize proper fuel crops such as rapeseed, flax or linseed because that would step on the toes of big oil.
So cut it out with the "think of the poor starving masses" rubbish please, it's so obviously a load of BS.
To be honest, calling a Mobius Strip "one sided" is not strictly correct. It's just a twist that causes one side to join with the other such that all points on both sides can be traced to each other without having to traverse an edge. Clever, yes. Truly one-sided in the dimension collapsing sense? No.
Mobius Strips are great for befuddling stupid people though. If you tell the average person that you can show them a piece of paper with one side they laugh. Then you give them a Mobius Strip and a pencil, draw a dot on it and ask them to draw a line along the strip. When they meet up you can almost hear their brains grinding gears.
Dude, fuck you. The last 8 years have been nothing but a torrent of "We Know Best" ass fucks from Republicans determined to make the government enormously more powerful while claiming that they know best in regards to national security.
From: bob@company.com To: all-user-list@company.com Subject: Good luck
Close your eyes and imagine a well. Then imagine yourself tossing a coin into the well. Now forward this message to at least 5 of your friends within the company and HR will reward you with elevated quanta metrics and a payrise.
Why is there an assumption that this is for battlefield use when the US government (and its lackey states) have such a demonstrable desire to spy on its local populace as invasively and pervasively as possible? This is so obviously for domestic use as cheap satellites that can do pervasive Eye In The Sky tracking of civilians.
Troll? Perhaps the above comment could have done with a little more content, I don't see anything wrong with the implication that elected officials are wasting time and money on trivialities and showmanship.
If they really were keen to improve to state of mathematics, there are some very good things that they could do to start fixing some of the problems with the education system.
However, those things require action to be taken, and thus, responsibility for that action. It is easier for politicians to engage in this sort of political showmanship, because they look like they care about math, they get the political points for "doing something", and don't risk their actions working out not as well as planned (a risk everyone takes when they do anything) and exposing themselves to criticism from the opposition.
Politics is the art of being gutless while beating your chest as loudly as possible.
While that gave me a chuckle, the part of me that almost became a lawyer would like to point out that that's not the paradox one may think it is. Although it is taken into account, a defamation claim has no requirement regarding the truthfulness or otherwise of the alleged statement or statements.
Personally, I'm not interested in the varying methods that big game houses can extract revenue from their sweatshop produced big titles. I want to know about the future of Open Source game development, and where that'll go in the next decade. The Linux kernal and other big projects prove that large, complex projects can be accomplished under the FOSS model.
Given the right leadership and drive, I would really like to see an MMO spring up around an unlicenced universe (not one of the done-to-death and copyrighted to hell ones like Star Wars or LoTR) but one that is perhaps by an obscure author and in the public domain. This would allow content developers to develop the game's stories without needing to buy expensive licences so they can use the name "Harry Potplant" or whatever it is.
Perhaps an FPS with some new twists that the big houses are too gutless to try due to the uncertainty associated with stepping away from The Formula. Perhaps something like the original System Shock, where you truly do get cerebrally challenged. Most FPS games now have to appeal to 14 year olds with ADHD. Oh, how I miss the days when you actually had to *think* between firefights.
Where are games that break the moulds the way XCom, Syndicate, System Shock and Bioforge did? We just don't get that level of innovation in the gaming industry any more, and I think that FOSS should come to the rescue. We've put a gigantic thorn in the side of the likes of Microsoft, now let's stick it to EA and Rockstar. They're no less stifling to innovation than Microsoft so why should we let them get away unmolested?
now that Obama's in office, its actually a debate rather than a eventuality
If you think the big lobby groups are any less powerful just because of a change in party or person in the president's chair then you're deluding yourself.
RIAA will continue to run around like a bull in a china shop, patent trolls will continue to destroy innovation by patent stockpiling and dragnetting, the armed forces will continue to rape and pillage those who are unable to defend themselves and our privacy and freedoms both online and in the real world will continue to be barraged from all sides.
The real enemies of society are the interests represented by the powerful lobby groups. Not some guy sitting in an oval office.
Slashdot Mirror
(I'm SOOO going to mod-point hell for the above posts.)
Oh, and regarding the actual article, no CO2 from the alcohol industry is on a wholly different scale from CO2 emissions from industry and transport.
It's like wondering if you peeing in the ocean when you go for a swim is making a difference to global oceanic warming because, after all, your pee is quite warm.
"There" ?
Over THERE wherever the poster is from, THEIR education system is so bad that THEY'RE making repeated mistakes over and over. THERE needs to be an improvement in THEIR attitude towards THEIR literacy. As long as THERE exists a culture of flippancy towards being properly literate, THEIR children will always respond to people correcting THEIR use of language with indignant responses scoffing at the need to be accurate in the use of language. THEY'RE constantly talking about things like "evolution of language" and that THERE have been many changes in the use of words over history, but THEIR mistake stems from the fact that THEY'RE completely disregarding the difference between language evolving to meet different circumstances, and language devolving due to the apathy and ignorance of those who speak it.
Wow. So this:
IT tech: Do you know if your workstation has a virus?
User: I don't know. It might. The other day I was typing something and something popped up I can't remember what it said but I think it had something to do with virus scanners but I can't remember and then there was this time I downloaded this thing and it said something about my computer being infected but I can't remember if I clicked it or not and then another one [etc etc etc for 20 minutes]
Which would happen once for every node on the network, would become this:
root@admin:~$ nmap 192.168.0.* -confickercheck
Nice. Seriously, nice. Now we just need to work out a way to remotely ask a computer if the printer cable is properly plugged in, and we're set.
It's not a problem. Just don't sell one of these to Schroedinger.
While that comic is funny, its message is incorrect. Simply teaching people to hold their ideas up to experiment is not only insufficient from a scientific perspective, it dangerously propagates ignorance.
Misconceived ideas can be turned into accepted fact by flawed, or worse, deliberately contrived experimentation methodologies. Once fallacies have been accepted as fact, correcting the collective wisdom is so much harder. Even if subsequent experiment laid bare the flaws in the original conception, the truth now has a far greater obstacle in its path than simple ignorance; it now has to overcome accepted falsehood.
Jackass is for people who are retarded and have resigned themselves to that fact. Mythbusters is for Jackass viewers who are in denial. There is no science or intellectual content on it. It is to science what Jackass is to athletics.
I suspect a highly secretive and powerful organization known only as the GNAA.
Yours truly,
Slashdot Troll.
BP paid a fine of $20m for the spill, and allowed its management to come under the review of Alaskan regulators. They also submitted to future regulation of activities in Prodhoe Bay.
Union Carbide brought all their staff home and refused to allow them to face charges in India.
You were saying something?
The US is the most polluting country in the world, both in absolute terms and per capita.
Environmental damage that happens in other countries counts as US caused if it's done by US corporations. E.g., the Union Carbide disaster may have happened in India, but it was a US corporation that caused it.
Come now, take responsibility for your (collective) actions.
The Heisenberg principle refers to the fact that in order to observe something, you need to look at it. Looking at it requires light to bounce off it.
If what you are looking at is an electron, then the single photon that you'd detect bouncing off it would tell you where the electron had been, but because electrons are so small, that single photon would have moved it. Thus, you'd know where the electron had been *before* the photon hit it, but not where it was now.
There is actually a whole lot more to it, but that's it conceptually.
Being religious, I call it the God Limit. Essentially, no matter how smart we become, even in 10 million years if we evolve to energy beings, transcend death itself and become One Single Consciousness, the Heisenberg principle means that we can never know everything about everything. That will always be the line between us and God. YMMV depending on your theological stance.
I fully agree.
For years we (the FOSS community) have been bemoaning Windows' poor, totally broken security model. Now, when MS attempts to fix that and inevitably breaks applications that rely on the previous totally broken security model, we want to whine and moan about backwards compatibility?
Are we going to whine the same way if IE8 standardizes but breaks web pages that rely on IE7/IE6?
Seriously, there are some among us that simply will not be satisfied, and they are making the whole FOSS community look like a bunch of children.
I cannot fathom the kind of person who would actually spend the time to write that. Truly, I'm astonished.
Yea, because excess corn in the US finds its way into the mouths of starving Africans.
The food shortage myth is propagated by oil companies so that whenever someone talks about a carbon cycle neutral crop alternative to fossil fuels, they can say "but think of the poor starving people!".If you want to know what big oil thinks about starving people go have a look at Shell's history of dealing with Nigerian villages, or Chevron's dealings with Ecuadorian natives. Big oil's obnoxious effort to feign concern over the welfare of the poverty stricken makes me sick.
The only reason food crops (such as corn, which is horribly inefficient as a fuel crop) are used is due to the insane subsidies that the US government offers them. Of course, the US government would never subsidize proper fuel crops such as rapeseed, flax or linseed because that would step on the toes of big oil.
So cut it out with the "think of the poor starving masses" rubbish please, it's so obviously a load of BS.
Holy crap, it seems I have a stalker! How exciting!
To be honest, calling a Mobius Strip "one sided" is not strictly correct. It's just a twist that causes one side to join with the other such that all points on both sides can be traced to each other without having to traverse an edge. Clever, yes. Truly one-sided in the dimension collapsing sense? No.
Mobius Strips are great for befuddling stupid people though. If you tell the average person that you can show them a piece of paper with one side they laugh. Then you give them a Mobius Strip and a pencil, draw a dot on it and ask them to draw a line along the strip. When they meet up you can almost hear their brains grinding gears.
Taking the piss out of idiots FTW!
"We know best"-ocrats?
Dude, fuck you. The last 8 years have been nothing but a torrent of "We Know Best" ass fucks from Republicans determined to make the government enormously more powerful while claiming that they know best in regards to national security.
Just to be clear on this matter: FUCK YOU.
From: bob@company.com
To: all-user-list@company.com
Subject: Good luck
Close your eyes and imagine a well. Then imagine yourself tossing a coin into the well. Now forward this message to at least 5 of your friends within the company and HR will reward you with elevated quanta metrics and a payrise.
Are you telling me that my conclusion that Slashdot members are actually anthropomorphised vegetables is unfounded?
You mean someone mated with an anonymous coward? And they say promiscuity is going out of fashion!
Why is there an assumption that this is for battlefield use when the US government (and its lackey states) have such a demonstrable desire to spy on its local populace as invasively and pervasively as possible? This is so obviously for domestic use as cheap satellites that can do pervasive Eye In The Sky tracking of civilians.
Troll? Perhaps the above comment could have done with a little more content, I don't see anything wrong with the implication that elected officials are wasting time and money on trivialities and showmanship.
If they really were keen to improve to state of mathematics, there are some very good things that they could do to start fixing some of the problems with the education system.
However, those things require action to be taken, and thus, responsibility for that action. It is easier for politicians to engage in this sort of political showmanship, because they look like they care about math, they get the political points for "doing something", and don't risk their actions working out not as well as planned (a risk everyone takes when they do anything) and exposing themselves to criticism from the opposition.
Politics is the art of being gutless while beating your chest as loudly as possible.
While that gave me a chuckle, the part of me that almost became a lawyer would like to point out that that's not the paradox one may think it is. Although it is taken into account, a defamation claim has no requirement regarding the truthfulness or otherwise of the alleged statement or statements.
Personally, I'm not interested in the varying methods that big game houses can extract revenue from their sweatshop produced big titles. I want to know about the future of Open Source game development, and where that'll go in the next decade. The Linux kernal and other big projects prove that large, complex projects can be accomplished under the FOSS model.
Given the right leadership and drive, I would really like to see an MMO spring up around an unlicenced universe (not one of the done-to-death and copyrighted to hell ones like Star Wars or LoTR) but one that is perhaps by an obscure author and in the public domain. This would allow content developers to develop the game's stories without needing to buy expensive licences so they can use the name "Harry Potplant" or whatever it is.
Perhaps an FPS with some new twists that the big houses are too gutless to try due to the uncertainty associated with stepping away from The Formula. Perhaps something like the original System Shock, where you truly do get cerebrally challenged. Most FPS games now have to appeal to 14 year olds with ADHD. Oh, how I miss the days when you actually had to *think* between firefights.
Where are games that break the moulds the way XCom, Syndicate, System Shock and Bioforge did? We just don't get that level of innovation in the gaming industry any more, and I think that FOSS should come to the rescue. We've put a gigantic thorn in the side of the likes of Microsoft, now let's stick it to EA and Rockstar. They're no less stifling to innovation than Microsoft so why should we let them get away unmolested?
If you think the big lobby groups are any less powerful just because of a change in party or person in the president's chair then you're deluding yourself.
RIAA will continue to run around like a bull in a china shop, patent trolls will continue to destroy innovation by patent stockpiling and dragnetting, the armed forces will continue to rape and pillage those who are unable to defend themselves and our privacy and freedoms both online and in the real world will continue to be barraged from all sides.
The real enemies of society are the interests represented by the powerful lobby groups. Not some guy sitting in an oval office.