>There is absolutely nothing stopping you from starting your own broadband company
Oh look, we've got a so-called "Free Marketer" here.
Let me clue you in, there is no such thing as a free market, even without government regulation. There are the incumbents that will do anything and everything to keep you out of the market. An example of this would be the deliberate jamming of competitors in the radio market before the advent of the FCC (thus also demonstrating in reality the "tragedy of the commons")
And let's not even talk about VZN techs snipping Cox coax deliberately. Nope, never happens.
Since all arguments need to have every link in the chain to be true for the conclusion to be true, your argument fails on its first premise.
What follows is strongly worded, but I think you should read it, because it's from a person who grew up bored to death with math in school and became frustrated later in life about the utter lack of communication in his earlier years about how important and useful math is in the real world, because the reasoning stopped at "Do it, it's important"
>Doing this again and again, building in complexity over the years, doesn't just teach you to solve math problems, it teaches you HOW TO THINK about any problem.
I'm sorry, but repetition only teaches you what tool in the toolbox to grab for. It doesn't teach you why. Students want why along with how. Rote repetition only teaches how. For example, students are taught order of operations, but not why. They are not taught that multiplication and division are actually the same thing. They are not taught that addition and subtraction are the same thing. They are taught "do parens first, mult and div next, and addition and subtraction last and don't worry about it, just pass the exam." It's purely mechanical. Only indirectly, later, do you figure out why order of operations is why it is. It shouldn't be that way.
When you figure out why, that's when you can take the tool and use it on other stuff that you didn't realize you could use it on.
>the types of problems we solve with it are very contrived and not realistic
Which only serves to further the student's feeling that math is divorced from reality.
> and a lot of the actual things we do in class are not very applicable themselves in real life.
Bullshit. Complete Utter Bullshit. If it's not applicable in real life, then it's just puzzle solving with no goal but to solve puzzles. I'm sure you think Math is a great game, but most people don't think this way. They look at math as a tool to get something accomplished. Ask a land survey technician or PLS. Ask a machinist, if geometry, trig, and calculus have no real life applications. Open the ARRL Handbook and see lots of applications, including Boolean logic. There are a lot of simple examples that you can come up with that are related to the real world.
Everything from visual arts to music to land surveying to digital logic.
When math teachers stop using trains and time tables to illustrate simultaneous equations and use their imaginations, then people might start thinking "Oh, this isn't just mental masturbation. I can actually do something with this. Maybe math isn't as dorky as I thought it was"
I had to leave school to find out that math higher than arithmetic and percentages had every day use. Sad. Because that's the time I finally figured out that math wasn't boring.
Mathematics is (or should be) the class where you learn how to think logically, and use logical and critical thinking skills to solve problems. Not just math problems, but ANY kind of problem you are likely to encounter in life"
But it's not taught that way.
It's never taught that way in US schools. Ever. It's always taught as an abstraction without ever tying any of it to real life. Ever. (repetition for emphasis) So when students complain about not ever being able to use this stuff in real life, maybe you should listen and give some examples. Because I heard damn few examples from my math. Applied math was always somehow "dirty."
It's never about critical thinking. It's never about solving real life problems. It's always about passing the next test or quiz.
You make me so friggin' angry it's ridiculous.
And Euclid puts food on my table (machinist/toolmaker) so I know of what I speak.
There's a lot said there that exposes Florian's true colors.
He heaps praise on the people who spread the most FUD about Linux. Robert Enderle, MOG, Dan "Lyin'" Lyons, and Ed Bott led the charge in the media against Linux. The only person he left out to praise was Rudy De Haas ("Paul Murphy" pseudonym). I'm sorry, but the list of above people have nothing worth listening to and his defense of them shows what side of the fence he's on.
No, because the Microsoft way to embrace, extend, extinguish was to keep the "how to extend" part to itself and secret, like what they did with Kerberos.
This is open sauced. You are free to implement it in your own stuff.
You would have known that if you read the article.
Hook this up to a pack of capacitors and I can go 'round zapping people, at random, without any need to find any woolen carpets to shuffle my feet across.
"Hi, Bob, that's a nice tray of cmos chips ya got there." *zap*
You also missed where I said "driving rain" too. I don't know how effective a light sprinkle will dissipate one of these laser beams, but a good solid rain, with all those lenses of water are going to make the beam dissipate before it reaches 500 meters.
As for weather, it's not sunny all the time, even in the middle-east. They do have hurricanes in the Persian Gulf.
I'm hijacking this thread because I need to point out that some time in the past couple of years or so, Florian Mueller was abducted by a UFO and his mind was altered by the Alien Greys.
The breaking news is that he is currently flipping out on Linux Weekly News because the alien virus finally ate his brain.
lwn.net/Articles/437650/
He is extremely buttmad that PJ of Groklaw is getting all sorts of accolades for a job well done and he is being ignored. I think he deserves more attention, so please do visit the above URL and read for yourself, and then you may quietly console Florian for the damage the aliens did to him.
THE ALIENS ARE REAL! LOOK AT WHAT DAMAGE THEY DID TO POOR FLORIAN!
Just attack the ship in a fog. Laser efficiency and focus goes out the window. Ask any land surveyor who's tried to work in a fog and can't get a beam to make a 10 meter round-trip. Not happening.
Yes it's more powerful than the laser in a total-station but condensed water vapor (fog, driving rain) is going to make your beam useless. Please note they tested this in a "high humidity environment" and not fog. There's a difference, and the difference is utter failure in fog. You can't defeat physics.
It's funny how the Glenn Beck idiots are out modding this stuff "troll" and flamebait because they can't stand any criticism of their precious Fox celebrities.
Mouth-breathers, the lot of them.
Hey guys, I have more karma than you have mod points. Mod this down too.
Let me get this straight, I choose not to pay attention to these "terror" alerts because they serve absolutely no function whatsoever except to keep people afraid, and now they want to shove it in my face on the interbutt?
Uh
No. That particular Facebook app is getting blocked the instant it shows up. I don't care what you're trying to alert me to. Even if there's a valid threat, there is fuck-all I can do about it. I lived through the fucking cold war and EBS was just as useless. If the nukes were coming, it was just a warning that you had 15 minutes to say goodbye to everyone.
Let's evaluate the ways "terrorists" can kill me:
The worst that can happen now is someone can fly a plane into a building, which isn't going to happen because the passengers are going to kill the terrorists before it happens - the old rules of "be quiet, sit down, and this will all be over peacefully" are gone.
Radiological bombs made from a bazillion fire extinguishers are a joke and a bad movie plot.
Biological weapons are difficult and require more degrees than a thermometer factory to build the equipment.
Chemical weapons are slightly less difficult to make, but are more likely to kill the terrorists in amusingly Darwinian displays of incompetence.
Ordinary bombs are a dime a dozen and they only do localized damage, and with everyone watching purchases of Ammonium Nitrate, another Oklahoma City is not going to happen.
"Poisoning the water supply" does not meaning throwing a bag of chemicals in a reservoir. It requires driving tanker trucks up to water treatment plants, hooking them up, and doing the dirty deed. It's ridiculously infeasible. This will also last about 10 seconds before someone calls 911.
And all this to be successful requires people competent enough to pull it off. As we have seen, the vast majority of suicidal terrorists are pretty dumb. This is because anyone remotely intelligent says to his/her "commander" "you want me to do what?"
Now listen to me, you benighted mockers! We're going to teach you soldiering, The world's noblest profession! When we're done with you, you'll be able to stand up and slaughter your foes like civilized men! But first, you will have to learn to march in step. And do the manual of arms without even having to think! Good soldiers don't think, they just obey! Do you suppose that if a man thought twice, he'd give his life for Queen and Country? Not bloody likely! He wouldn't go near the battlefield! One look at your foolish faces tells me that you're going to be crack troops. Ohhh him there with the five-and-a-half hat size has the makings of a bloody hero!
- Daniel Dravot
End rant.
Why the rant: Because the TSA is tits-on-a-bull useless and we've got idiots in the House who want to tie dozens of wedge issues to the fucking budget which don't even come close to trimming it and are thus shutting down the government through invented controversy. Fuck you guys. Fuck you.
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>There is absolutely nothing stopping you from starting your own broadband company
Oh look, we've got a so-called "Free Marketer" here.
Let me clue you in, there is no such thing as a free market, even without government regulation. There are the incumbents that will do anything and everything to keep you out of the market. An example of this would be the deliberate jamming of competitors in the radio market before the advent of the FCC (thus also demonstrating in reality the "tragedy of the commons")
And let's not even talk about VZN techs snipping Cox coax deliberately. Nope, never happens.
Since all arguments need to have every link in the chain to be true for the conclusion to be true, your argument fails on its first premise.
Good day.
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"Think of it as evolution in action" - Tony Rand
from the book "Oath of Fealty" by Jerry Pournell and Larry Niven
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What follows is strongly worded, but I think you should read it, because it's from a person who grew up bored to death with math in school and became frustrated later in life about the utter lack of communication in his earlier years about how important and useful math is in the real world, because the reasoning stopped at "Do it, it's important"
>Doing this again and again, building in complexity over the years, doesn't just teach you to solve math problems, it teaches you HOW TO THINK about any problem.
I'm sorry, but repetition only teaches you what tool in the toolbox to grab for. It doesn't teach you why. Students want why along with how. Rote repetition only teaches how. For example, students are taught order of operations, but not why. They are not taught that multiplication and division are actually the same thing. They are not taught that addition and subtraction are the same thing. They are taught "do parens first, mult and div next, and addition and subtraction last and don't worry about it, just pass the exam." It's purely mechanical. Only indirectly, later, do you figure out why order of operations is why it is. It shouldn't be that way.
When you figure out why, that's when you can take the tool and use it on other stuff that you didn't realize you could use it on.
>the types of problems we solve with it are very contrived and not realistic
Which only serves to further the student's feeling that math is divorced from reality.
> and a lot of the actual things we do in class are not very applicable themselves in real life.
Bullshit. Complete Utter Bullshit. If it's not applicable in real life, then it's just puzzle solving with no goal but to solve puzzles. I'm sure you think Math is a great game, but most people don't think this way. They look at math as a tool to get something accomplished. Ask a land survey technician or PLS. Ask a machinist, if geometry, trig, and calculus have no real life applications. Open the ARRL Handbook and see lots of applications, including Boolean logic. There are a lot of simple examples that you can come up with that are related to the real world.
Everything from visual arts to music to land surveying to digital logic.
When math teachers stop using trains and time tables to illustrate simultaneous equations and use their imaginations, then people might start thinking "Oh, this isn't just mental masturbation. I can actually do something with this. Maybe math isn't as dorky as I thought it was"
I had to leave school to find out that math higher than arithmetic and percentages had every day use. Sad. Because that's the time I finally figured out that math wasn't boring.
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But it's not taught that way.
It's never taught that way in US schools. Ever. It's always taught as an abstraction without ever tying any of it to real life. Ever. (repetition for emphasis) So when students complain about not ever being able to use this stuff in real life, maybe you should listen and give some examples. Because I heard damn few examples from my math. Applied math was always somehow "dirty."
It's never about critical thinking. It's never about solving real life problems. It's always about passing the next test or quiz.
You make me so friggin' angry it's ridiculous.
And Euclid puts food on my table (machinist/toolmaker) so I know of what I speak.
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>Greenpeace is still relevant
It became irrelevant when the French stopped nuclear testing in the Pacific. Now they're just attention whores.
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BGE spotted.
(bitter groklaw exile)
Emphasis on the "bitter"
Even _Arthur has gotten over his exile, why can't you?
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... but it's worth posting here, but without the aliens.
Go on over to LWN and look at Florian's continued meltdown about how PJ isn't relevant and he is.
http://lwn.net/Articles/437650/
There's a lot said there that exposes Florian's true colors.
He heaps praise on the people who spread the most FUD about Linux. Robert Enderle, MOG, Dan "Lyin'" Lyons, and Ed Bott led the charge in the media against Linux. The only person he left out to praise was Rudy De Haas ("Paul Murphy" pseudonym). I'm sorry, but the list of above people have nothing worth listening to and his defense of them shows what side of the fence he's on.
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No, because the Microsoft way to embrace, extend, extinguish was to keep the "how to extend" part to itself and secret, like what they did with Kerberos.
This is open sauced. You are free to implement it in your own stuff.
You would have known that if you read the article.
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I've got my reserved ticket to be eaten first.
Neener neener.
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I mean, really, in 1969 we magically had all the tech to get to the Moon and back, it's not like we had to invent anything. /sarcasm
People get paid to write this crap?
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No, you're wrong.
It's the Illuminati bringing back The Old Ones to immanentize the eschaton.
The sarcrifices will begin after midnight, right after the American Medical Association band does its third encore.
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Well, let me put my evil dictator hat on for a second.
If I was Ahmadinejad, I wouldn't bother with a nuke.
I'd be building anti-ship missiles in my secret underground lair. To be launched in days of inclement weather.
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What we need is to find a way to coast uphill without having to coast downhill.
I've got it.
Put a magnet on the end of a pole in front of the car. It'll pull itself up a hill!
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_laxcr841Fm1qewll0o1_500.jpg
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Put the shoes on a wheel (discard the tire) and mount to a car. All you'll need are brakes! It'll be like GTAIV with friction turned off!
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...it's perfect for a gag.
Hook this up to a pack of capacitors and I can go 'round zapping people, at random, without any need to find any woolen carpets to shuffle my feet across.
"Hi, Bob, that's a nice tray of cmos chips ya got there." *zap*
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BMO
You also missed where I said "driving rain" too. I don't know how effective a light sprinkle will dissipate one of these laser beams, but a good solid rain, with all those lenses of water are going to make the beam dissipate before it reaches 500 meters.
As for weather, it's not sunny all the time, even in the middle-east. They do have hurricanes in the Persian Gulf.
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BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS BREAKING NEWS!
I'm hijacking this thread because I need to point out that some time in the past couple of years or so, Florian Mueller was abducted by a UFO and his mind was altered by the Alien Greys.
The breaking news is that he is currently flipping out on Linux Weekly News because the alien virus finally ate his brain.
lwn.net/Articles/437650/
He is extremely buttmad that PJ of Groklaw is getting all sorts of accolades for a job well done and he is being ignored. I think he deserves more attention, so please do visit the above URL and read for yourself, and then you may quietly console Florian for the damage the aliens did to him.
THE ALIENS ARE REAL! LOOK AT WHAT DAMAGE THEY DID TO POOR FLORIAN!
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Ok, so this is for at range and close-in defense?
Fine.
Just attack the ship in a fog. Laser efficiency and focus goes out the window. Ask any land surveyor who's tried to work in a fog and can't get a beam to make a 10 meter round-trip. Not happening.
Yes it's more powerful than the laser in a total-station but condensed water vapor (fog, driving rain) is going to make your beam useless. Please note they tested this in a "high humidity environment" and not fog. There's a difference, and the difference is utter failure in fog. You can't defeat physics.
This is pants-on-head retarded.
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Probably. I thought of that as I was typing, but I had to get my vent out.
It's depressing.
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Anyone who takes Glenn Beck seriously is an idiot.
Glenn Beck doesn't take Glenn Beck seriously. Or at least he didn't before he started believing his own BS.
Hope this helps.
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It's funny how the Glenn Beck idiots are out modding this stuff "troll" and flamebait because they can't stand any criticism of their precious Fox celebrities.
Mouth-breathers, the lot of them.
Hey guys, I have more karma than you have mod points. Mod this down too.
Heh.
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Let me get this straight, I choose not to pay attention to these "terror" alerts because they serve absolutely no function whatsoever except to keep people afraid, and now they want to shove it in my face on the interbutt?
Uh
No. That particular Facebook app is getting blocked the instant it shows up. I don't care what you're trying to alert me to. Even if there's a valid threat, there is fuck-all I can do about it. I lived through the fucking cold war and EBS was just as useless. If the nukes were coming, it was just a warning that you had 15 minutes to say goodbye to everyone.
Let's evaluate the ways "terrorists" can kill me:
The worst that can happen now is someone can fly a plane into a building, which isn't going to happen because the passengers are going to kill the terrorists before it happens - the old rules of "be quiet, sit down, and this will all be over peacefully" are gone.
Radiological bombs made from a bazillion fire extinguishers are a joke and a bad movie plot.
Biological weapons are difficult and require more degrees than a thermometer factory to build the equipment.
Chemical weapons are slightly less difficult to make, but are more likely to kill the terrorists in amusingly Darwinian displays of incompetence.
Ordinary bombs are a dime a dozen and they only do localized damage, and with everyone watching purchases of Ammonium Nitrate, another Oklahoma City is not going to happen.
"Poisoning the water supply" does not meaning throwing a bag of chemicals in a reservoir. It requires driving tanker trucks up to water treatment plants, hooking them up, and doing the dirty deed. It's ridiculously infeasible. This will also last about 10 seconds before someone calls 911.
And all this to be successful requires people competent enough to pull it off. As we have seen, the vast majority of suicidal terrorists are pretty dumb. This is because anyone remotely intelligent says to his/her "commander" "you want me to do what?"
- Daniel Dravot
End rant.
Why the rant: Because the TSA is tits-on-a-bull useless and we've got idiots in the House who want to tie dozens of wedge issues to the fucking budget which don't even come close to trimming it and are thus shutting down the government through invented controversy. Fuck you guys. Fuck you.
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Because if you make the threat vague enough, you can't be found guilty of threatening *specific* people.
That's why they pay lawyers.
Norman LeBoon's mistake was calling out Eric Cantor.
I'm not making excuses for the Fox idiots. They're despicable. It's cynical gaming of the system, but that's the way it works.
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"To make a computer language from scratch, you must first create the Universe"
I'm sorry, Mr. Sagan, I won't butcher your quote again...
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I suggest you go to Google and look up the news for the launch of Cassini.
Hysteria is the correct term.
http://articles.cnn.com/1999-08-16/tech/9908_16_cassini.flyby_1_earth-flyby-saturnbound-probe/2?_s=PM:TECH
You are disingenuous, a troll, and a blowhard.
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