In this case, sticking our heads up our asses WOULD have made us safe. We're in danger because of gung-ho Americans like your fine self going off to kill brown people in the name of freedom. That's obviously not always true, but it is right now.
What you endorse for your own daughter is your own choice (though we believe you will answer to Him for those choices). We don't force it down your throat.
You're a lying sack of shit. There's no point sugarcoating it.
You're assuming uniform malice when stupidity usually suffices. Copyright law is obviously mostly malicious, but I don't think you can make that claim for drunk driving laws (to use the two examples here). DWI is definitely harmful to society and to individuals, and I think most people who have all the information available to lawmakers would support bans and strict punishments on it. If you want to put a cynical spin on it, which I most certainly do, they're protecting their lives, not profits.
What isn't meaningless? Hugs and kisses from beautiful women. Cranking up an engine you spent 4 weeks rebuilding and taking a drive down to a pizza place 100 miles away to celebrate. Waking up in the morning after damn dear dieing the last day and taking your first breath. Sitting infront of the computer and grabbing a flab of skin and noticing you've lost a lot of weight.
Well, interestingly enough, some people can find meaning in things other than spending 4 weeks getting various cuts and scrapes from metal corners, or drinking themselves to death. Isn't that just the darnedest thing?
Where do you think the merchant gets his money? That's right, from the customers. So, if the merchant loses a lot of money to credit card fraud, how do you think he recovers the money? By selling his penis on ebay?
Aesthetics are important, and forcing people to make their households less appealing isn't going to help anyone live a better life.
That's one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. Aesthetics might be important to some people with nothing better to think about, but in the grand scheme of things there are many things more important. Your house would be cleaner if you had a slave to clean it for you, so does that mean that outlawing slavery isn't going to help anyone live a better life?
This is hopeless, isn't it? I bet you're one of those people who spends a half-hour every day making your hair look good. I'm not even going to touch your "the shift will be natural" comment.
Figure 3a is gp120, with the parts bound to b12 colored green. It doesn't show the unnecessary parts of b12, because they're not the bits attacking gp120. It also shows the parts of the surface in contact with CD4, to show that b12 blocks cell entry. I don't know if you're expecting a photograph of a b12 molecule saying cheese to a disposable camera, but as far as I can tell it's definitely an atomic-level image of b12 attacking the surface of the virus. The BBC reported the fact perfectly accurately.
Figure 3 looks suspiciously like an atomic-level image showing the antibody b12 bound to the surface protein of the HIV virus. However, I'm not sure how able they are to make such an image perfectly accurately - the 1998 article they cited for the structure of gp120 said the structure was determined at a scale of 2.5 angstroms.
Yeah, those eighth graders talking about sex know all they need to know. Why, if they already know how cute being pregnant makes them look, what more could we possibly teach them?
When I read the summary, I thought the seeds had been sent into orbit alone and there were now sweet potato seeds falling from the skies onto the streets... then I realized what's actually happening. Letdown of the century.
Plausible-sounding statements of fact can't be hyperbole. "She's as big as a whale" or "I hate that kid more than Hitler" are hyperbole. "Sometimes I clean my knives in front of my daughter's boyfriends so they feel threatened" isn't. You can't say things which are perfectly possible and call everyone else stupid for not knowing you were lying, that's just stupid.
By the way, Christ never overestimated people's intelligence. His teachings were always reduced to easy-to-understand parables dealing with situations requiring no brain stretch by his listeners. But I wouldn't expect you to know that, as I doubt you read much (I refer, of course to "literal-minded == stupid").
That's a good point, because it shows that racism isn't a very good parallel to DRM. There are no technnological ways to fight racism, and you can't fight racism by climbing the corporate ladder.
It sounds good, but things just don't work that way. If you do that, people will chalk it up to you being better than the computer than them. They either don't or can't learn. You really think Maynard G. Muskievote is going to spend time trying to figure out why his new HD-DVD doesn't play in his computer? No, he'll go buy a machine that will play it (assuming the new formats catch on). Even when people realize they can't do half the neat stuff you can, they still won't consider that when they make purchases. There are a hundred other things that weigh more heavily in their minds, like whether that girl they're trying to impress likes Sin City, or whether their hair looks OK while they browse theough the shelves.
Also, Hitler and the 9/11 hijackers used DRM! Or didn't use DRM. Whichever's funnier.
I would tend to think so, but I hate people, so it's probably not a viable position to take.
Overall your position is very sensible. I agree that math should be taught faster, but what can you do? It'll only get worse from here - I saw Idiocracy, it's non-fiction. You're probably right about calculators. (But you'll never hear me admit it! Slide rulez for lyfe!)
(this table is for "e", what do I do with my base 10)
There's another thing. People also don't know the change-of-base formula anymore.
I can approximate sines with pencil and paper
Or a slide rule. Get a 20-inch with a magnifying cursor and you can get probably get 5 decimal places accuracy. In addition, you'll know exactly how accurate it is, and you will throughout the entire problem know what order of magnitude your answer is, and whether it makes sense.
And it's not tedious. My physics teacher and I once had a competition to see who could find square roots, to 2 decimal places (it was a non-magnifying 10-inch plastic piece of crap slide rule, so nothing more was really possible), more quickly, him on slide rule and me on calculator. We tied several times, I edged him out by a second several times. Tedious indeed.
No, it isn't. I graduated high school last year, having taken BC Calculus, and I really think I would have been better educated had the class forbidden calculators. Since the invention of calculators, for the first time since the Enlightenment mathematicians have grown up knowing less than the mathematicians before them. Nobody knows how to linearize a function anymore, or how to approximate an integral, or what to do with a table of logarithms. They just plug it all into the computer and wait for an answer. What the hell will we do when the power plants run out of fuel or are blown up?
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You remind me of almost every villain the BOFH has ever conquered.
In this case, sticking our heads up our asses WOULD have made us safe. We're in danger because of gung-ho Americans like your fine self going off to kill brown people in the name of freedom. That's obviously not always true, but it is right now.
Then come be a nonconformist with me by wearing all the same clothes and listening to the same music I do!
You're assuming uniform malice when stupidity usually suffices. Copyright law is obviously mostly malicious, but I don't think you can make that claim for drunk driving laws (to use the two examples here). DWI is definitely harmful to society and to individuals, and I think most people who have all the information available to lawmakers would support bans and strict punishments on it. If you want to put a cynical spin on it, which I most certainly do, they're protecting their lives, not profits.
Nobody equated them. towsonu2003 listed them, without indicating any relation between them.
Where do you think the merchant gets his money? That's right, from the customers. So, if the merchant loses a lot of money to credit card fraud, how do you think he recovers the money? By selling his penis on ebay?
This is hopeless, isn't it? I bet you're one of those people who spends a half-hour every day making your hair look good. I'm not even going to touch your "the shift will be natural" comment.
It was obviously an utter logical failure, and the logic was the entire argument. Just give up, nobody will think less of you.
Figure 3a is gp120, with the parts bound to b12 colored green. It doesn't show the unnecessary parts of b12, because they're not the bits attacking gp120. It also shows the parts of the surface in contact with CD4, to show that b12 blocks cell entry. I don't know if you're expecting a photograph of a b12 molecule saying cheese to a disposable camera, but as far as I can tell it's definitely an atomic-level image of b12 attacking the surface of the virus. The BBC reported the fact perfectly accurately.
Holy crap... have you been saving that one since 1999? That's impressive.
Figure 3 looks suspiciously like an atomic-level image showing the antibody b12 bound to the surface protein of the HIV virus. However, I'm not sure how able they are to make such an image perfectly accurately - the 1998 article they cited for the structure of gp120 said the structure was determined at a scale of 2.5 angstroms.
You don't have to innovate. You're perfectly allowed to sit at home eating cheese and watching television while I innovate.
Yeah, those eighth graders talking about sex know all they need to know. Why, if they already know how cute being pregnant makes them look, what more could we possibly teach them?
When I read the summary, I thought the seeds had been sent into orbit alone and there were now sweet potato seeds falling from the skies onto the streets... then I realized what's actually happening. Letdown of the century.
Plausible-sounding statements of fact can't be hyperbole. "She's as big as a whale" or "I hate that kid more than Hitler" are hyperbole. "Sometimes I clean my knives in front of my daughter's boyfriends so they feel threatened" isn't. You can't say things which are perfectly possible and call everyone else stupid for not knowing you were lying, that's just stupid.
By the way, Christ never overestimated people's intelligence. His teachings were always reduced to easy-to-understand parables dealing with situations requiring no brain stretch by his listeners. But I wouldn't expect you to know that, as I doubt you read much (I refer, of course to "literal-minded == stupid").
Parents are notoriously bad at knowing what's their business.
Why does anyone have to take a fall for it? It was idiocy by government officials that was the problem.
That's a good point, because it shows that racism isn't a very good parallel to DRM. There are no technnological ways to fight racism, and you can't fight racism by climbing the corporate ladder.
It sounds good, but things just don't work that way. If you do that, people will chalk it up to you being better than the computer than them. They either don't or can't learn. You really think Maynard G. Muskievote is going to spend time trying to figure out why his new HD-DVD doesn't play in his computer? No, he'll go buy a machine that will play it (assuming the new formats catch on). Even when people realize they can't do half the neat stuff you can, they still won't consider that when they make purchases. There are a hundred other things that weigh more heavily in their minds, like whether that girl they're trying to impress likes Sin City, or whether their hair looks OK while they browse theough the shelves.
Also, Hitler and the 9/11 hijackers used DRM! Or didn't use DRM. Whichever's funnier.
Right, and in the case of racism, there's a very stong way to fight it: don't be racist. And has that worked? Go ask your local redneck.
Overall your position is very sensible. I agree that math should be taught faster, but what can you do? It'll only get worse from here - I saw Idiocracy, it's non-fiction. You're probably right about calculators. (But you'll never hear me admit it! Slide rulez for lyfe!)
And it's not tedious. My physics teacher and I once had a competition to see who could find square roots, to 2 decimal places (it was a non-magnifying 10-inch plastic piece of crap slide rule, so nothing more was really possible), more quickly, him on slide rule and me on calculator. We tied several times, I edged him out by a second several times. Tedious indeed.
No, it isn't. I graduated high school last year, having taken BC Calculus, and I really think I would have been better educated had the class forbidden calculators. Since the invention of calculators, for the first time since the Enlightenment mathematicians have grown up knowing less than the mathematicians before them. Nobody knows how to linearize a function anymore, or how to approximate an integral, or what to do with a table of logarithms. They just plug it all into the computer and wait for an answer. What the hell will we do when the power plants run out of fuel or are blown up?