Intentional, perhaps, but then there's the question, "Does someone who works for 12 hours a day produce better code than someone who only works 8? Or 3?"
That's the progressive core tenet, which is pretty conservative these days, being the established, main party for the past half century or so.
The conservative tenet is that government's only power is to take away freedom, so it should do so only sparingly, and preferably at the local level when it can be changed more quickly if people don't feel they're getting sufficient return on the lost liberty.
Although, that's a pretty liberal idea these days...
Beck is a clown who figured out how to issue some maudlin rants to get people riled up and paying attention to his advertisers. This Lincoln Memorial thing is a stunt to boost his brand and eventually line his pockets. He's a little like Bill O'Reilly, except O'Reilly's underlying progressive bent sometimes leaks through his "angry conservative" performance.
Have you ever tried to attend a class where powerpoint slides were used instead of blackboard/markerboard and presenter?
One of the big problems with powerpoint is that you usually have to darken the room to use it, which kills personal note-taking, which ruins recall: just writing something down helps you remember, even if you never re-read your notes.
PP presentations also tend to move too quickly for good note-taking. It's great for presenting overviews, but if you need teach detail, it's far from ideal. There's a reason its main competitor is called, "Keynote."
I'm really not convinced that it should be used as a summary of your talking points, either.
I think it should be used for showing graphics. Whether those are photographic images or charts or maps, though not necessarily static graphics. Animation is ok for certain uses, if it means that less detail needs to be on the screen at any given moment.
In short, It should be used for showing things that everyone in the room needs to see in order to discuss the topic at hand. More than that is a distraction.
That slide is absolutely terrible. For one thing, it won't even be legible for anyone not doing the presentation in an IMAX theater, or at least one with individual screens. Certainly not the poorly focused SVGA projectors that seem to go hand-in-hand with it.
Further, there's way too much information on there. People won't be paying attention to the presenter while that things up (at the IMAX presentation room, remember). They won't even be absorbing the information in it. They'll be lazily playing "Euler's Bridges" with the line art.
You don't put an image like that up, except as a joke to help you introduce the glossy, high-resolution B-size handout and packet explaining it, close to the end of your presentation.
The fact that you think it's actually a good idea goes a long way suggesting that powerpoint itself is a big part of the problem.
Well, since he lived at the USNO, maybe it was all the clocks and telescopes that were driving that cost up..
Seriously though, Cheney's not running around the country telling everyone how evil it is for ordinary peons such as yourself to use even $250 a month in energy. We're not criticizing Gore's use of energy, we're criticizing his alleged commitment to environmentalism.
If Gore's going to be the poster child of environmentalism, then he's implicitly suggesting that his lifestyle would be appropriate for anybody, or everybody, environmentally speaking.
Which is great for me. I can keep my consumption well below Gore's without making much effort at all!..
Also, his business sell speeches and indulgences. Just how much energy does he need to produce that.
I dunno, it still feels like we're calling a GMC Yukon and "eco" car because it gets an unheard of (for an SUV, apparently) 20mpg!
Meanwhile most people are driving around in Honda Civics (non-hybrid) and similar-sized cars getting high 20s - low 30s, but the Yukon is greener because it's nearly 2x the size of those Civics, Camrys, etc.
Plus, you can use your yukon for your business of driving all over the country selling an intangeable product that may not exist, and also speaches about how you're just better than normal people.
Except the Gores don't travel around in a GMC Yukon Hybrid. They're tooling around in things like the ever more efficient Gulfstream IIB, which gets a whopping 1 mpg, but it flies in a straight line...
I love the "mitigating factors" such as "the gore home is four times the size of an average home." As if... To be greener, we should all get bigger homes? Brilliant!
as long as you slow down to acknowledge there's a cop there, the police don't care as long as you're driving safely and not swerving all over.
See, here's the problem.. That part is not safe. People slam on the brakes to slow down, and traffic bunches up around the cops, so from the speed change you're increasing your risk of collision, and losing your escape routes (i.e. the gaps in the other lanes you could've gone to if it wasn't an all-lanes slowdown.)
I'm not suggesting that your speeding is the problem, though. Rather that the expectation everyone should slow down for the cops is. I wish someone would do a study of just how many "speed related" accidents start within 300 ft. of a "speed trap."
Slot games *can* be hacked, which is why there are multiple levels of brutes, pit bosses, etc. watching to make sure you don't have the opportunity to.
The thing that makes slot machines secure is the layers and layers of people watching the process.
But even all that only protects the owners of the machines from hacking by you. It doesn't go the other way around. Now, how do you suggest building the analogous into the voting system while still keeping voting anonymous?
Yeah, but the answer isn't not to do the things that are good for you, and you know you'll enjoy if only you could motivate yourself to get started. The answer is to get a motivational aid to overcome your limitation. Whether that's a friend to drag you off, or a physical trainer to coax you to the session, or a therapist, new girlfriend/boyfriend or a robot with a whip doesn't matter.
Even the right drugs, prescribed by a doctor, if they're effective. Depression sucks.
If you don't have the motivation within you, then, obviously, you have to get it from somewhere else.
But.. be careful about arming robots with whips. Although I, for one, welcome our new metallic masters, I can see how people might not be too happy about spending their lives toiling in the lithium mines....
Where do you live? It matters. There's almost always something in the area that's healthy, social, and inexpensive, but what that thing is varies so much by location that I couldn't really offer anything.
What do your friends do, can you tag along?
Do you like sailing, and are near the water? There are probably a few "yacht clubs" nearby that like to race. Someone always needs an extra crewman, and they tend to pay in hamburgers and beer...
I'd prefer that over a public accusation on Friday circulating in the press until late Monday and additionally getting arrested Friday evening and spending the weekend in jail, yes.
If you don't enjoy it after a few weeks of getting into it, I don't think you're doing the right kind of exercise. There are a whole myriad of things you can do that don't have to be taking your medicine at the gym.
For instance, wherever you are, there's some sport or collection of sports that the area is naturally good at (possibly changing with the seasons.) Lots of places have kayaking in the summer time, northern areas have skiing, southern areas might have more aquatic things to do. There are bars that offer introductions to dancing. And there are local cultural favorites, too. I'm not going to attempt to come up with an exhaustive list of possibilities.
Do you think it's better to play counterstrike with a bunch of strangers or paintball with a group of friends and friends-of-friends? Have you tried both?
I love bars. I even had a membership at a bar for a couple years (till I moved away) that had really good Guinness pours, Playstation and Xbox behind the bar for the patrons, an annual picnic for members, and other things. I just don't think they're a great place to go to "treat your depression." I also love video games, but don't think they're a great way to "treat depression" either.
It's great if it works for you, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that it ought to work for even a large minority of people. Personally, I've found my satisfaction playing video games to be just enough to want to play more, but never enough to feel ready-for-the-next-thing. Which I think is quite dangerous.
Also, going to a bar with your friends is very different than going to a bar planning to hopefully socialize with strangers.
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Intentional, perhaps, but then there's the question, "Does someone who works for 12 hours a day produce better code than someone who only works 8? Or 3?"
That's the progressive core tenet, which is pretty conservative these days, being the established, main party for the past half century or so.
The conservative tenet is that government's only power is to take away freedom, so it should do so only sparingly, and preferably at the local level when it can be changed more quickly if people don't feel they're getting sufficient return on the lost liberty.
Although, that's a pretty liberal idea these days...
Beck is a clown who figured out how to issue some maudlin rants to get people riled up and paying attention to his advertisers. This Lincoln Memorial thing is a stunt to boost his brand and eventually line his pockets. He's a little like Bill O'Reilly, except O'Reilly's underlying progressive bent sometimes leaks through his "angry conservative" performance.
And if those maps come out to 99c, you'll get a free picture of it with your change!
Have you ever tried to attend a class where powerpoint slides were used instead of blackboard/markerboard and presenter?
One of the big problems with powerpoint is that you usually have to darken the room to use it, which kills personal note-taking, which ruins recall: just writing something down helps you remember, even if you never re-read your notes.
PP presentations also tend to move too quickly for good note-taking. It's great for presenting overviews, but if you need teach detail, it's far from ideal. There's a reason its main competitor is called, "Keynote."
I'm really not convinced that it should be used as a summary of your talking points, either.
I think it should be used for showing graphics. Whether those are photographic images or charts or maps, though not necessarily static graphics. Animation is ok for certain uses, if it means that less detail needs to be on the screen at any given moment.
In short, It should be used for showing things that everyone in the room needs to see in order to discuss the topic at hand. More than that is a distraction.
Uh..
That slide is absolutely terrible. For one thing, it won't even be legible for anyone not doing the presentation in an IMAX theater, or at least one with individual screens. Certainly not the poorly focused SVGA projectors that seem to go hand-in-hand with it.
Further, there's way too much information on there. People won't be paying attention to the presenter while that things up (at the IMAX presentation room, remember). They won't even be absorbing the information in it. They'll be lazily playing "Euler's Bridges" with the line art.
You don't put an image like that up, except as a joke to help you introduce the glossy, high-resolution B-size handout and packet explaining it, close to the end of your presentation.
The fact that you think it's actually a good idea goes a long way suggesting that powerpoint itself is a big part of the problem.
It corrupts, pointedly. Jeez, way to ruin a good comedic phrase translation, captain mad-libs.
Wait.. if I want to buy the official Star Wars "mind control" toy, I have to buy the one without the word Jedi in it?
Yeah, that's not confusing at all.
Good idea. It'll also help the sports-related collectible card business.
Now, that's a lotta smug.
Prius in 2010 looks an awful lot like a Focus form 2001.
Oddly enough, the reverse is also true....
They are, however, frighteningly silent at much lower speeds. As in a parking lot...
Well, since he lived at the USNO, maybe it was all the clocks and telescopes that were driving that cost up..
Seriously though, Cheney's not running around the country telling everyone how evil it is for ordinary peons such as yourself to use even $250 a month in energy. We're not criticizing Gore's use of energy, we're criticizing his alleged commitment to environmentalism.
If Gore's going to be the poster child of environmentalism, then he's implicitly suggesting that his lifestyle would be appropriate for anybody, or everybody, environmentally speaking.
Which is great for me. I can keep my consumption well below Gore's without making much effort at all! ..
Also, his business sell speeches and indulgences. Just how much energy does he need to produce that.
I dunno, it still feels like we're calling a GMC Yukon and "eco" car because it gets an unheard of (for an SUV, apparently) 20mpg!
Meanwhile most people are driving around in Honda Civics (non-hybrid) and similar-sized cars getting high 20s - low 30s, but the Yukon is greener because it's nearly 2x the size of those Civics, Camrys, etc.
Plus, you can use your yukon for your business of driving all over the country selling an intangeable product that may not exist, and also speaches about how you're just better than normal people.
Except the Gores don't travel around in a GMC Yukon Hybrid. They're tooling around in things like the ever more efficient Gulfstream IIB, which gets a whopping 1 mpg, but it flies in a straight line...
my heat pump doesn't have to work at all but is sized for efficiency.
Erm.. It's one or the other, usually. Are you sure you've got the right size heat pump for your situation?
But... what about the radon?
I love the "mitigating factors" such as "the gore home is four times the size of an average home." As if... To be greener, we should all get bigger homes? Brilliant!
as long as you slow down to acknowledge there's a cop there, the police don't care as long as you're driving safely and not swerving all over.
See, here's the problem.. That part is not safe. People slam on the brakes to slow down, and traffic bunches up around the cops, so from the speed change you're increasing your risk of collision, and losing your escape routes (i.e. the gaps in the other lanes you could've gone to if it wasn't an all-lanes slowdown.)
I'm not suggesting that your speeding is the problem, though. Rather that the expectation everyone should slow down for the cops is. I wish someone would do a study of just how many "speed related" accidents start within 300 ft. of a "speed trap."
Slot games *can* be hacked, which is why there are multiple levels of brutes, pit bosses, etc. watching to make sure you don't have the opportunity to.
The thing that makes slot machines secure is the layers and layers of people watching the process.
But even all that only protects the owners of the machines from hacking by you. It doesn't go the other way around. Now, how do you suggest building the analogous into the voting system while still keeping voting anonymous?
I dunno, I think we had a second peak after Reconstruction, although, in a very real sense the "Civil War" was itself a revolution...
Yeah, but the answer isn't not to do the things that are good for you, and you know you'll enjoy if only you could motivate yourself to get started. The answer is to get a motivational aid to overcome your limitation. Whether that's a friend to drag you off, or a physical trainer to coax you to the session, or a therapist, new girlfriend/boyfriend or a robot with a whip doesn't matter.
Even the right drugs, prescribed by a doctor, if they're effective. Depression sucks.
If you don't have the motivation within you, then, obviously, you have to get it from somewhere else.
But.. be careful about arming robots with whips. Although I, for one, welcome our new metallic masters, I can see how people might not be too happy about spending their lives toiling in the lithium mines....
Where do you live? It matters. There's almost always something in the area that's healthy, social, and inexpensive, but what that thing is varies so much by location that I couldn't really offer anything.
What do your friends do, can you tag along?
Do you like sailing, and are near the water? There are probably a few "yacht clubs" nearby that like to race. Someone always needs an extra crewman, and they tend to pay in hamburgers and beer...
I'd prefer that over a public accusation on Friday circulating in the press until late Monday and additionally getting arrested Friday evening and spending the weekend in jail, yes.
If you don't enjoy it after a few weeks of getting into it, I don't think you're doing the right kind of exercise. There are a whole myriad of things you can do that don't have to be taking your medicine at the gym.
For instance, wherever you are, there's some sport or collection of sports that the area is naturally good at (possibly changing with the seasons.) Lots of places have kayaking in the summer time, northern areas have skiing, southern areas might have more aquatic things to do. There are bars that offer introductions to dancing. And there are local cultural favorites, too. I'm not going to attempt to come up with an exhaustive list of possibilities.
Do you think it's better to play counterstrike with a bunch of strangers or paintball with a group of friends and friends-of-friends? Have you tried both?
I love bars. I even had a membership at a bar for a couple years (till I moved away) that had really good Guinness pours, Playstation and Xbox behind the bar for the patrons, an annual picnic for members, and other things. I just don't think they're a great place to go to "treat your depression." I also love video games, but don't think they're a great way to "treat depression" either.
It's great if it works for you, but I haven't seen anything to suggest that it ought to work for even a large minority of people. Personally, I've found my satisfaction playing video games to be just enough to want to play more, but never enough to feel ready-for-the-next-thing. Which I think is quite dangerous.
Also, going to a bar with your friends is very different than going to a bar planning to hopefully socialize with strangers.