From my observations, though, for every 1 responsible hunter there seem to be 10 irresponsible.
As a hunter, I would like to believe that those numbers would be reversed. The truth is that most hunters can be the most vocal environmental supporters. Let me also point you to this program.
I can't presume to speak for others, but for me, hunting can be a spiritual experience. To sit in silence and observe the nature all around -- there's a sort of bond I feel that can't quite be put into words. I have respect, and not a destructive attitude. I kill only when I have a reasonable shot at eligible game. Should I succeed, I do not do a jig about the corpse. I may be pleased with my results, but I'm simultaneously respectful of the life I've taken from the animal. Should my shot go astray, I make every reasonable effort to track wounded game, for miles if necessary. When the game is in my freezer at home and I pull out a carefully wrapped package, I have a connection with my food that many will never have with their frozen pre-packaged burgers or cutlets.
Bah, the search engine of a true believer would be to type in a random IP address and rely on the hand of God to ensure it's the very one you're looking for.
Even the most faithful would know that the likelihood of the desired site not being a (shared) virtual host is vanishingly small.
How about people who are deaf like me? Will we get written up for walking around in a dangerous fashion and relying only upon our eyes to stay alive on the streets?
The circumstances would seem to be quite different. We can safely assume that people do not choose to become hearing impaired or deaf, firstly. Secondly, as a deaf person, you are likely keenly aware of the extra effort required to assure your own safety. It would seem that these stooges with ipods (etc) have chosen to impair their own ability to hear what's around them yet neither do they choose to raise their eyes to determine if they're walking into danger. It's easy to assume that YOU, evilsofa, are far more sensible.
I heard Pollan while listening to a podcast this past week. I like his guideline that you should avoid anything at the grocery store that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
I'm sorry, but iTunes is a piece of crap as far as software is concerned. I don't know how smoothly it runs on a Mac, but on Windows it's nigh useless (this is on a Phenom II X4 965 with 4 gigs of RAM, btw).
The day my wife switched over to an alternate piece of software (she uses SharePod) was the day she became much happier.
Hi, Pojut -- I've used iTunes for quite a while, well before I even listened to podcasts or owned an iPod nano/micro/whatever (the $49USD, whatever it's called). Maybe it's just out of ignorance that I've continued to use it, but on the occasion that I've looked for an alternative, they don't stand up very well. Recently I've been getting prompts to upgrade to 9.2 but the damned thing doesn't work, complaining about my "iPod Service" every time I run the new installer, and I'm annoyed.
Can you recommend SharePod as a viable alternative to iTunes? I guess I'd like a good comparison from someone (anybody reading) who has reasonable experience with both iTunes and alternatives that truly stand up to the competition, with all the essential features, none of the cruft. Will it sync with my ipod? If my ipod gets hosed, can I reset it to factory defaults with SharePod or other app? etc etc...
In the grand Slashdot tradition, I have not read the article. However, it seems one might also write a headline which says, "Hawking fuels false dichotomy".
I appreciate the support amongst the gaggle of armchair child behaviorists & psychologists in this thread. I take exception to those who stick their fingers in their ears saying, "la la la, I can't hear you, AD(H)D doesn't exist!" The insinuation, therefore, is that since there's no apparent disorder, the only logical conclusion is that my wife and I are bad parents and/or have no discipline or structure.
Can't really say I'm all that surprised. The more responsible/seasoned parents out there pretty much called b.s. on this long ago and actually discipline their kids instead of medicating them.
I presume most of these diagnoses are based on kids simply being kids. They're packed with energy and ready for playtime at a moment's notice. The early years of schooling is/was geared towards training them to control that behavoir. What the heck happened?
My wife and I have two sons, ages 5 and 3. We long suspected our 5yr old of having/developing ADHD. We held off any official diagnosis or medication until the last few months, and the difference is quite noticeable. You need to understand that you're making a big mistake by equating ADHD with "kids need discipline". It's not that at all. Our 5yr old son can be behaving perfectly well (no discipline needed) yet still generally annoying the crap out of us (to be perfectly honest) when he's completely off meds. And don't get me wrong -- of course we love him dearly, and he's incredibly bright -- but before any medication, he could have difficulty holding his own attention long enough to complete a sentence, repeating a sentence fragment several times, then forgetting how to finish the phrase. "Daddy? Daddy, I want to go to... I want to go.... can I..?..." This is just one example of one symptom of his ADHD and I won't go into his entire behavior history and how the diagnosis was confirmed by our pediatrician.
For many kids with ADHD, the correct type/dosage of medication is like throwing them a lifesaver in rough waters. From your post, I'll assume you're not a medical professional, nor do you have children or close friends with children with ADHD. Though I shouldn't let online comments get under my skin, I'll tell you I take umbrage at your suggestion that I'm merely not providing discipline to my kids. I can assure you they get plenty of playtime, structure, discipline and so on. But when you're doing everything else right, and the ADHD remains, the logical step is to seek treatment of one kind or another. Medication may not be right for everyone, but it helps many.
Rebecca was 16 years old when her mother Elizabeth died of cancer. But before she died, she wrote letters to Rebecca, to be given to her on her birthday each year for thirteen years. At first the letters were comforting, but as time went on, they had much more complicated effects. David Segal tells the story. David is a reporter for The New York Times. (14 minutes.)
offsetting this by the fuel savings coming from reduced family size. People simply have fewer children on average than they used to.
Wow you really can make numbers say anything you want.
Indeed, you can! Gas mileage is asymptotic, right? This is why people carpool. If you calculate cost per person per mile, isn't it better to have a big family? Everyone travels cheaper!
In other news, advertisers love to say things like, "The more you buy, the more you save!"
Indeed. There's at least one radio station that has a regular program which is used to broadcast messages from family to their captive loved ones. Fascinating radio show here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/409/held-hostage Listen to act one. There's an industry for kidnapping insurance (rule #1: don't tell anyone you have it).
In fact, I welcome this update! It was hard enough getting those less-than-savvy relations to use Firefox, but even getting my WIFE to update FF is a chore. Automatic updates for these folks will be especially welcome. It's depressing to be on the cutting edge of FF public releases only to visit your mother and find she's still running FF 2.0.17 and has been ignoring the update suggestions forever.
"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.
Try explaining to the wife, "Honey, I just read it for the circuit diagrams."
man....peta's gonna have a heart-attack....perhaps even an aneurysm too. On one hand, they want to support alternative energy....but for them to know that flies were harmed...
I, for one, think we should act now so we're prepared to harness the energy of their spasms and convulsions.
Last I checked I live in a secular state, where I am free to chose which god to worship - or none at all. Why then should I be held to someone else's beliefs of a god when traveling by air?
[I may be replying to a troll, but...]
Seriously? Put your atheist hard-on back in your pants. "Act of God" is a legal term in the US. Would you have preferred instead the phrase "result of entropy"?
What irks the hell out of me is someone who grabs the hand too fast without getting skin-to-skin contact between each others' thumb-and-index webspace. I end up with some idiot who's got hold of my fingers only. Those are the clowns that get the do over and instructions on proper handshaking, usually punctuated with something like, "Slow down, idiot!"
There you go... that's my number-one pet peeve: grabbing my four extended fingers, leaving my thumb waving in the air? Wtf? I'd think that in any culture, the very least you want to do is have a symmetric handshake. I try my best to make the handshake symmetrical, firm but not crushing. I've had people grab only my fingers, other guys seemingly oblivious that they've crushed my knuckles such that I cannot return the grasp, and then the folks who offer their hand like it's a fresh pork chop, a piece of meat with no life in it whatsoever.
I think it'd be more instructive to write up all the handshake mistakes people make.
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From my observations, though, for every 1 responsible hunter there seem to be 10 irresponsible.
As a hunter, I would like to believe that those numbers would be reversed. The truth is that most hunters can be the most vocal environmental supporters. Let me also point you to this program.
I can't presume to speak for others, but for me, hunting can be a spiritual experience. To sit in silence and observe the nature all around -- there's a sort of bond I feel that can't quite be put into words. I have respect, and not a destructive attitude. I kill only when I have a reasonable shot at eligible game. Should I succeed, I do not do a jig about the corpse. I may be pleased with my results, but I'm simultaneously respectful of the life I've taken from the animal. Should my shot go astray, I make every reasonable effort to track wounded game, for miles if necessary. When the game is in my freezer at home and I pull out a carefully wrapped package, I have a connection with my food that many will never have with their frozen pre-packaged burgers or cutlets.
Bah, the search engine of a true believer would be to type in a random IP address and rely on the hand of God to ensure it's the very one you're looking for.
Even the most faithful would know that the likelihood of the desired site not being a (shared) virtual host is vanishingly small.
Re stating 'I Know', Richard Dawkins has a great thought experiment on this.
-Statement: There is a perfect Victorian china tea set orbiting the sun in an orbit about half way between the sun and the earth....
Credit where credit is due. This argument actually originates as Russell's Teapot, published in 1952, when Dawkins himself was only 11 years old.
How about people who are deaf like me? Will we get written up for walking around in a dangerous fashion and relying only upon our eyes to stay alive on the streets?
The circumstances would seem to be quite different. We can safely assume that people do not choose to become hearing impaired or deaf, firstly. Secondly, as a deaf person, you are likely keenly aware of the extra effort required to assure your own safety. It would seem that these stooges with ipods (etc) have chosen to impair their own ability to hear what's around them yet neither do they choose to raise their eyes to determine if they're walking into danger. It's easy to assume that YOU, evilsofa, are far more sensible.
See Michael Pollan's writings, such as "In Defense of Food": http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/0143114964/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_3
I heard Pollan while listening to a podcast this past week. I like his guideline that you should avoid anything at the grocery store that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
I'm sorry, but iTunes is a piece of crap as far as software is concerned. I don't know how smoothly it runs on a Mac, but on Windows it's nigh useless (this is on a Phenom II X4 965 with 4 gigs of RAM, btw).
The day my wife switched over to an alternate piece of software (she uses SharePod) was the day she became much happier.
Hi, Pojut -- I've used iTunes for quite a while, well before I even listened to podcasts or owned an iPod nano/micro/whatever (the $49USD, whatever it's called). Maybe it's just out of ignorance that I've continued to use it, but on the occasion that I've looked for an alternative, they don't stand up very well. Recently I've been getting prompts to upgrade to 9.2 but the damned thing doesn't work, complaining about my "iPod Service" every time I run the new installer, and I'm annoyed.
Can you recommend SharePod as a viable alternative to iTunes? I guess I'd like a good comparison from someone (anybody reading) who has reasonable experience with both iTunes and alternatives that truly stand up to the competition, with all the essential features, none of the cruft. Will it sync with my ipod? If my ipod gets hosed, can I reset it to factory defaults with SharePod or other app? etc etc...
And, its unlikely that a short burst of high temp's will damage the processor in any way
By any chance are you a contractor? ;)
In the grand Slashdot tradition, I have not read the article. However, it seems one might also write a headline which says, "Hawking fuels false dichotomy".
backups are important.
Yes, the 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt make backups"
Unfortunately, it was on the third tablet...
Not to worry. You can rebuild the third tablet by XORing the odd bits on tablet one and even bits on tablet two.
I appreciate the support amongst the gaggle of armchair child behaviorists & psychologists in this thread. I take exception to those who stick their fingers in their ears saying, "la la la, I can't hear you, AD(H)D doesn't exist!" The insinuation, therefore, is that since there's no apparent disorder, the only logical conclusion is that my wife and I are bad parents and/or have no discipline or structure.
I humbly offer a "fuck you" to these fine folks.
Can't really say I'm all that surprised. The more responsible/seasoned parents out there pretty much called b.s. on this long ago and actually discipline their kids instead of medicating them.
I presume most of these diagnoses are based on kids simply being kids. They're packed with energy and ready for playtime at a moment's notice. The early years of schooling is/was geared towards training them to control that behavoir. What the heck happened?
My wife and I have two sons, ages 5 and 3. We long suspected our 5yr old of having/developing ADHD. We held off any official diagnosis or medication until the last few months, and the difference is quite noticeable. You need to understand that you're making a big mistake by equating ADHD with "kids need discipline". It's not that at all. Our 5yr old son can be behaving perfectly well (no discipline needed) yet still generally annoying the crap out of us (to be perfectly honest) when he's completely off meds. And don't get me wrong -- of course we love him dearly, and he's incredibly bright -- but before any medication, he could have difficulty holding his own attention long enough to complete a sentence, repeating a sentence fragment several times, then forgetting how to finish the phrase. "Daddy? Daddy, I want to go to ... I want to go .... can I..? ..." This is just one example of one symptom of his ADHD and I won't go into his entire behavior history and how the diagnosis was confirmed by our pediatrician.
For many kids with ADHD, the correct type/dosage of medication is like throwing them a lifesaver in rough waters. From your post, I'll assume you're not a medical professional, nor do you have children or close friends with children with ADHD. Though I shouldn't let online comments get under my skin, I'll tell you I take umbrage at your suggestion that I'm merely not providing discipline to my kids. I can assure you they get plenty of playtime, structure, discipline and so on. But when you're doing everything else right, and the ADHD remains, the logical step is to seek treatment of one kind or another. Medication may not be right for everyone, but it helps many.
$70-125 to install and another $70-110 per month isn't cheap, especially on top of the major bump in car insurance that they already ate
Yeah, that is pretty outrageously expensive. I bet it'd be cheaper to call a cab.
Check out Act One of this episode of This American Life.
Act One. Letter Day Saint.
Rebecca was 16 years old when her mother Elizabeth died of cancer. But before she died, she wrote letters to Rebecca, to be given to her on her birthday each year for thirteen years. At first the letters were comforting, but as time went on, they had much more complicated effects. David Segal tells the story. David is a reporter for The New York Times. (14 minutes.)
offsetting this by the fuel savings coming from reduced family size. People simply have fewer children on average than they used to.
Wow you really can make numbers say anything you want.
Indeed, you can! Gas mileage is asymptotic, right? This is why people carpool. If you calculate cost per person per mile, isn't it better to have a big family? Everyone travels cheaper!
In other news, advertisers love to say things like, "The more you buy, the more you save!"
You can't control what other people do. But you are in control of your own reactions.
Am I honestly the only one who is mystified by the apparent meteoric (and heroic) rise of this hot-headed schmuck?
Indeed. There's at least one radio station that has a regular program which is used to broadcast messages from family to their captive loved ones. Fascinating radio show here:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/409/held-hostage
Listen to act one. There's an industry for kidnapping insurance (rule #1: don't tell anyone you have it).
In fact, I welcome this update! It was hard enough getting those less-than-savvy relations to use Firefox, but even getting my WIFE to update FF is a chore. Automatic updates for these folks will be especially welcome. It's depressing to be on the cutting edge of FF public releases only to visit your mother and find she's still running FF 2.0.17 and has been ignoring the update suggestions forever.
Oblig. nerdy concept reference
I think I just thought of a great new website:
"Girls of Electronica" Dot. Com. Watch the ladies as they solder and desolder iPhones and other high-tech gadgets, while also being topless. See voltmeters probing things they were never meant to probe! Or vibrating air guns used in creative new fashion! Only $5 a month.
Try explaining to the wife, "Honey, I just read it for the circuit diagrams."
I use a phone to communicate with other people. Not to talk to myself and an imaginary friend that uses phonecrypt.
And you've also just summed up why people don't use PGP/GPG, for better or worse.
man....peta's gonna have a heart-attack....perhaps even an aneurysm too.
On one hand, they want to support alternative energy....but for them to know that flies were harmed...
I, for one, think we should act now so we're prepared to harness the energy of their spasms and convulsions.
it was Bose-Einstein condensation of bipolarons that would allow for room tempurature super conduction.
To be honest, I figured that at a minimum, one would have to reroute all secondary power to the deflector shields.
Last I checked I live in a secular state, where I am free to chose which god to worship - or none at all. Why then should I be held to someone else's beliefs of a god when traveling by air?
[I may be replying to a troll, but...]
Seriously? Put your atheist hard-on back in your pants. "Act of God" is a legal term in the US. Would you have preferred instead the phrase "result of entropy"?
What irks the hell out of me is someone who grabs the hand too fast without getting skin-to-skin contact between each others' thumb-and-index webspace. I end up with some idiot who's got hold of my fingers only. Those are the clowns that get the do over and instructions on proper handshaking, usually punctuated with something like, "Slow down, idiot!"
There you go... that's my number-one pet peeve: grabbing my four extended fingers, leaving my thumb waving in the air? Wtf? I'd think that in any culture, the very least you want to do is have a symmetric handshake. I try my best to make the handshake symmetrical, firm but not crushing. I've had people grab only my fingers, other guys seemingly oblivious that they've crushed my knuckles such that I cannot return the grasp, and then the folks who offer their hand like it's a fresh pork chop, a piece of meat with no life in it whatsoever.
I think it'd be more instructive to write up all the handshake mistakes people make.