Most of us have absolutely no qualifications whatsoever in production of art of any kind. But I reckon we can still produce something to blow this paticular judge over. Then again, that six year old with the Jar-Jar crayon animation (0.2fps) has a pretty solid product.
And that's how he hit the white Mazda, which clipped the green Honda, which rammed the black Toyota SUV before spinning into the other lane and plowing into a city bus.
I'm having trouble visualising how one collision could reasonably lead to not one, not two, but three further collisions. I mean, how fast were these people going? When you go fast, you're supposed to go by the "two second" rule for distance from other vehicles. If they were going slow, how could the momentum have jostled a car three collisions down?
What the hell were all these people doing? Driving at 60+ within two meters of each other? Something tells me the original driver was not the only person driving carelessly on that road.
Cue Slashdot posts emphasising the uselessness of hydrogen due to the fact that we must put more energy into the process than we get out. Well blow me over. Who'd have thought that thermodynamics would apply to our energy supplies?
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In all seriousness now, how long do you think it will be before someone gets arrested for doing something like this.
Hopefully not too long. I think this development is actually the best thing to happen for public privacy in a long time.
Long story short, eventually some hobbists will be very publically caught flying around neighbourhoods spying on peoples homes, movements, bedrooms, young children etc, etc, and there will be a sensationalist media outrage. In response, governments will draft laws that make this sort of thing illegal. And once that happens, law enforcement will have to get a warrent for it like everything else you can't do. For example, searching or bugging someones house.
Yes I do. Throughout history people have connived and backstabbed their way to success. Serious marital disputes are with us even to this day, with domestic violence still a very common problem. Historically, people have been quite merciless to their offspring, with "death by exposure" the commonly used method to rid oneself of unwanted children. Now offer a once in a lifetime reward and a new life, fresh slate etc, and I estimate that 30% of those polled would agree to murder their own families.
I like to believe that most average/normal individual would. Maybe I am optimistic but your point of view is disturbing (to me at least).
I never said that most people wouldn't. I said ~30% of people would, so around ~70% of people wouldn't. Again, I don't think this is an unreasonable estimate.
It seems also that you probably encountered more people of the first kind, while I _chose_ to associate with the second kind, that probably explains our different view of basic human nature.
There are lots of good people out there. There are also a lot of bad ones. I'm puzzled as to how anyone can go through life without meeting both types. I find that you can't seperate these two grouping by attending social functions, clubs, events, prisions, etc. Invariably, no matter where you go, you're likely to encounter roughly the same proportions of both types.
Sorry, this just pisses me off, how could anyone develop such a horrible thing, I don't care what they were paid... for most of us it wouldn't be enough!
In my wild an totally unsubstanciated opinion, I tend to think that if you offered enough money say >$100 million, or equivilent incentives, for someone to kill their own family, children and all, getting away scott free guaranteed, perhaps somewhere in the region of 30% of human beings would take you up on your offer. I don't honestly believe this estimate is out by an order of magnitude.
I wish I could say that this was an exclusively American phenomenon, but it seems to be becoming more widespread as the years go by. Now, in some cases, acronymisation has given us some useful new words; RADAR, LASER, etc. But most of the time acronyms are rather irritating buzzwords thrown about to sell something.
Very, very irritatingly, instead of referring to acronyms by saying the letters, people try to say "the word" that the acronym is trying to spell out. For acronyms that have been designed for this, like NATO or of course ADVISE, this is simple. For others, it's just stupid. Case in point, a friend of mine was in an interview and was asked did he know "sequel"(SQL). He said he'd never heard of it, because he hadn't. He learned about "ess-que-el"(SQL), and honestly had no idea that people tried to turn the acronym into a "word" of sorts.
Personally, I detest acronyms. If you dislike writing something out all the time, use a macro. If you need to say something, please don't use some ridiculous string of consonants as a word. It's insulting to your audience.
I'd be really curious to see how such a stat was derived; while the logic of it seems sound, I doubt the direct correlation between college graduates and the GDP.
The logic isn't very sound, but it's possible that there is an indirect correllation.
I'd wager it is simply this. More engineers means that there are probably more industrial jobs going around, which are the true generators of GDP. More lawyers could mean that there are more jobs in the services sector, and hence GDP is lessened.
It would be interesting to see which university degrees have become more popular in countries with booming GDPs like China. I'd wager most of the new degrees are related to the heavy/manufacturing industries, vs in say the US where the largest portion of degrees are related to the services sector and/or "management".
It's a user moderation system for Slashdot story submissions. You're presented with a list of currently submitted stories, and you mod each one up an down depending on your personal opinion. Submissions are then ranked on some kind of colour system, with red submissions being the higest rated, and purple or black the lowest. You can also submit tags for consideration I believe. Presumably this aids the editors in the selection process, preventing dupes and such like.
To descend even further offtopic, I'd like to publically apologise to the Slashdot Editor for all the flack they've gotten from me over the quality of stories on the front page. The submissions are as a rule really quite bad. Not awful, though there are the occassional moronic posts and even a few spam ads. The majority of submissions just, aren't very good.
Long rambling paragraphs filled with personal diatribe and hyperbole. Spelling mistakes. Raw urls instead of anchor tags. Summaries that are too long, too short, incoherant, undescriptive or misleading. Headlines without any capitalisation, in the wrong section or with the wrong topic. Duplicated and resent submissions. Laborious submitted journals. Submissions consisting of nothing but a bookmark, or one solitary link with "check this out" on it. Most of the good submissions coming from the same authors again and again.
I would estimate, that of the filtered submissions, those above the equivilant of a moderation of 1, about 1 in 15 could be considered as a potential candidate for the front page. 90%+ of my votes so far have been negative. It's really that bad in there folks. Cut the eds a little slack when the next dupe comes around. Well, not too much slack.
Thirdly, everyone deep down knows that there is something after death.
Everyone deep down hopes there is something after death. Some people hope so much that they become very upset when other people don't hope in exactly the same way. The reason they get upset is because, even deeper down, they know their hope is just blind desperate hope, and they're afraid.
Well tough shit. I'm afraid of angry religious hive mind mobs coming to burn me out of my house, but you don't see me on TV campaigning to ban thoughts and theories contridictory to my own. I may laugh at them, but that's not going to create chilling effects.
I am so sick and tired of people who whine about how the Orwellian fantasy are becoming true when those are the same people carrying technologies to combat against such scenarios.
Yes because our single, personal low quality "sous"vellance cameras can so easily even the odds against the literally millions of electronic eyes at the governments disposal, not to mention their ability to analyise and selectively edit their recordings. I mean how can we lose?!
I'd rather have cameras watching me any day so I can potentially use the footage (possibly along with other footage) to prove my innocence should any questions arise.
You've made a critical error. There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt. Sooner or later, those omnipresent cameras will record enough of your lack of innocence for you to regret their presence. It's just a matter of time.
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So we've found two new species? But that means one has become extinct!!
Man really is destroying the ecosystem!
Most of us have absolutely no qualifications whatsoever in production of art of any kind. But I reckon we can still produce something to blow this paticular judge over. Then again, that six year old with the Jar-Jar crayon animation (0.2fps) has a pretty solid product.
I'm having trouble visualising how one collision could reasonably lead to not one, not two, but three further collisions. I mean, how fast were these people going? When you go fast, you're supposed to go by the "two second" rule for distance from other vehicles. If they were going slow, how could the momentum have jostled a car three collisions down?
What the hell were all these people doing? Driving at 60+ within two meters of each other? Something tells me the original driver was not the only person driving carelessly on that road.
Danm I love this joint!
Hopefully not too long. I think this development is actually the best thing to happen for public privacy in a long time.
Long story short, eventually some hobbists will be very publically caught flying around neighbourhoods spying on peoples homes, movements, bedrooms, young children etc, etc, and there will be a sensationalist media outrage. In response, governments will draft laws that make this sort of thing illegal. And once that happens, law enforcement will have to get a warrent for it like everything else you can't do. For example, searching or bugging someones house.
Needlessly high tech solution or GTFO.
"Yes. Ripping good laugh."
I never said that most people wouldn't. I said ~30% of people would, so around ~70% of people wouldn't. Again, I don't think this is an unreasonable estimate.
There are lots of good people out there. There are also a lot of bad ones. I'm puzzled as to how anyone can go through life without meeting both types. I find that you can't seperate these two grouping by attending social functions, clubs, events, prisions, etc. Invariably, no matter where you go, you're likely to encounter roughly the same proportions of both types.
I consider myself an optimist by the way.
I wish I could say that this was an exclusively American phenomenon, but it seems to be becoming more widespread as the years go by. Now, in some cases, acronymisation has given us some useful new words; RADAR, LASER, etc. But most of the time acronyms are rather irritating buzzwords thrown about to sell something.
Very, very irritatingly, instead of referring to acronyms by saying the letters, people try to say "the word" that the acronym is trying to spell out. For acronyms that have been designed for this, like NATO or of course ADVISE, this is simple. For others, it's just stupid. Case in point, a friend of mine was in an interview and was asked did he know "sequel"(SQL). He said he'd never heard of it, because he hadn't. He learned about "ess-que-el"(SQL), and honestly had no idea that people tried to turn the acronym into a "word" of sorts.
Personally, I detest acronyms. If you dislike writing something out all the time, use a macro. If you need to say something, please don't use some ridiculous string of consonants as a word. It's insulting to your audience.
Even if you dress it up as some kind of deconstrutive, form analysis, omnislashing is a terrible way to post.
I'd wager it is simply this. More engineers means that there are probably more industrial jobs going around, which are the true generators of GDP. More lawyers could mean that there are more jobs in the services sector, and hence GDP is lessened.
It would be interesting to see which university degrees have become more popular in countries with booming GDPs like China. I'd wager most of the new degrees are related to the heavy/manufacturing industries, vs in say the US where the largest portion of degrees are related to the services sector and/or "management".
Their bellies are full.
I've seen it. It's full of sweaty, unhappy looking people in awkward clothing. You're better off going for a walk instead.
Having personally sufferred through a miscarraige of justice, you still don't don't see the point of the jury.
And people wonder what's wrong with the legal system these days.
It's a user moderation system for Slashdot story submissions. You're presented with a list of currently submitted stories, and you mod each one up an down depending on your personal opinion. Submissions are then ranked on some kind of colour system, with red submissions being the higest rated, and purple or black the lowest. You can also submit tags for consideration I believe. Presumably this aids the editors in the selection process, preventing dupes and such like.
To descend even further offtopic, I'd like to publically apologise to the Slashdot Editor for all the flack they've gotten from me over the quality of stories on the front page. The submissions are as a rule really quite bad. Not awful, though there are the occassional moronic posts and even a few spam ads. The majority of submissions just, aren't very good.
Long rambling paragraphs filled with personal diatribe and hyperbole. Spelling mistakes. Raw urls instead of anchor tags. Summaries that are too long, too short, incoherant, undescriptive or misleading. Headlines without any capitalisation, in the wrong section or with the wrong topic. Duplicated and resent submissions. Laborious submitted journals. Submissions consisting of nothing but a bookmark, or one solitary link with "check this out" on it. Most of the good submissions coming from the same authors again and again.
I would estimate, that of the filtered submissions, those above the equivilant of a moderation of 1, about 1 in 15 could be considered as a potential candidate for the front page. 90%+ of my votes so far have been negative. It's really that bad in there folks. Cut the eds a little slack when the next dupe comes around. Well, not too much slack.
Well tough shit. I'm afraid of angry religious hive mind mobs coming to burn me out of my house, but you don't see me on TV campaigning to ban thoughts and theories contridictory to my own. I may laugh at them, but that's not going to create chilling effects.
I hear Mahmoud has one, but, I heard that from George.
You've made a critical error. There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt. Sooner or later, those omnipresent cameras will record enough of your lack of innocence for you to regret their presence. It's just a matter of time.