I decided to go on Google and see what that book was about, and guess what? The book is old and its major prediction, that nobody will ever use OO because "MOOOOOOOOOOMYYYYYYYY, IT'S TOO COMPLICATED!", has pretty much fallen apart.
As for living "in denial", it worked pretty well for Paul Graham.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that if you make more than one measurement the products of all the accuracies will be some really low value. As for free will: I'd say that chaos theory(which the brain definitely exhibits) makes the brain close enough to having free will anyways.
AKAImBatman cut off his cable service because he only watched three or four shows from it anyways. iTunes is the only way he gets the shows he wants to watch, for a fraction of the amount of money he needed for cable.
People obsessing over audio quality tend to be full of shit anyways, given that most double-blind studies show that the devices preferred by audiophiles had no significant difference from regular technology.
95% of programmers write embedded code whose binaries are never released into the real world. The sharing clauses of the GPL don't come into effect if the binaries are never released into the outside world.
China would have gone communist no matter how many green pieces of paper went towards Chiang Kai-Shek. That man was a tyrant and a fucking idiot and there's a reason that nobody in China except for a few personal soldiers liked him. As for Venona, I doubt very many Soviet spies would have made themselves obvious enough to fall under McCarthy's radar. So he ended up being as Truman called him: the best asset the Kremlin had.
Food not Bombs is a nice platitude but it breaks down when you notice that the Bombees are usually well fed
That's a nice refutation but it breaks down when you realize that the Food and Bombs aren't going to the same places, but instead are coming from the same planes.
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Are you a quantum particle? I didn't think so.
I decided to go on Google and see what that book was about, and guess what? The book is old and its major prediction, that nobody will ever use OO because "MOOOOOOOOOOMYYYYYYYY, IT'S TOO COMPLICATED!", has pretty much fallen apart.
As for living "in denial", it worked pretty well for Paul Graham.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle says that if you make more than one measurement the products of all the accuracies will be some really low value. As for free will: I'd say that chaos theory(which the brain definitely exhibits) makes the brain close enough to having free will anyways.
AKAImBatman cut off his cable service because he only watched three or four shows from it anyways. iTunes is the only way he gets the shows he wants to watch, for a fraction of the amount of money he needed for cable.
I think it's really there because 1)Randall Munroe is pretty much a demigod now, having the power to change reality, and 2) the AACS code.
As crazy and conspiratorial as it is, that post seems downright sensible compared to the things Pat Robertson says.
"Flying planes into buildings" is the new Hitler for Godwin's Law.
Well, what if it said: "So easy a therapist could hack it"?
America doesn't use analog cellphone service anymore either, unless you're using a 10-year-old cellphone.
I think the first two are just reactions to the third. Of course, most cellphone users now know how to set their phone to vibrate or silent now.
People obsessing over audio quality tend to be full of shit anyways, given that most double-blind studies show that the devices preferred by audiophiles had no significant difference from regular technology.
I thought cellphones could do E911.
I get a hadron just thinking about the supercollider!
Could they say "It's so easy a therapist could do it"?
95% of programmers write embedded code whose binaries are never released into the real world. The sharing clauses of the GPL don't come into effect if the binaries are never released into the outside world.
It sounds like a joke to me.
China would have gone communist no matter how many green pieces of paper went towards Chiang Kai-Shek. That man was a tyrant and a fucking idiot and there's a reason that nobody in China except for a few personal soldiers liked him. As for Venona, I doubt very many Soviet spies would have made themselves obvious enough to fall under McCarthy's radar. So he ended up being as Truman called him: the best asset the Kremlin had.
As does that cliffhanger thing...hasn't every Heroes episode so far ended in a cliffhanger?
How is that spreading fear, uncertainty, or doubt? Hyperbole, yes, FUD, no.
Reminds me more of those 205 communists that McCarthy claimed were in the State Department. Hmmmm.......
That's what a car stereo is for.