having imaginary friends sounds more like a serious mental condition that needs professional treatment, not respect.
Does that make it ok to do things specifically designed to annoy people who have a serious mental condition? If someone believes that George Washington is coming for around for an dinner, does kicking over George's chair and stealing his cutlery count as "professional treatment"? How about setting up a Facebook group that requests other people join in and go around and kick George's chair over? Is that going to help this seriously mentally ill person? Or just make them miserable and maybe get violent? What exactly is being achieved here other than getting your kicks tormenting others?
Just because someone is wrong (in your opinion) doesn't mean they should suffer for it and you should appoint yourself as the one to dish out the punishment. Especially if it is, as you claim, the result of an illness.
People will probably object to this as "encouraging smoking"
I don't know. But I do know 3 things;
1 The game will inevitably be crap. 2 People will buy it anyway, cos, you know, it's about dope and your friends will lol. 3 The writers of this game are loving all the free publicity.
Irish terrorism was motivated more by politics than religion, whereas the opposite is true with Al Queada.
You think that Al-Queada are motivated by religion??? bin Laden is a politician, using religion as a tool to further his political aims. In this he is no different from a million other nut-job leaders throughout history. It's a whole lot easier to convince someone to die for a cause (or to kill someone else) if you wrap it up in a religion. Kill in the name of religion and you're guaranteed to meet god in an everlasting paradise. Kill in the name of politics and you're guaranteed, erm, come the revolution, a seat on the General Revolutionary Council Finance Sub-committee (Claims division) and maybe a pension.
Religions have plenty of flaws, but their use in violence, armed struggle, terrorism and wars is more an indication of how political leaders find it easiest to motivate and manipulate the masses. Unfortunately the the masses haven't worked this out yet and perhaps never will.
The primary purpose of having a sexual relationship remains the continued survival of the species.
Totally. Strangely though, when I put it on my match.com profile it was viewed somewhat negatively. But the rest of you can opt out on this one, I've got the continued survival of the species covered as my primary purpose. No need to thank me.
Love and companionship - that you can get from friends
Aren't you romantic. The primary purpose of having a friend remains the advancement of the species through social co-operation.
and you've made it POSSIBLE to track you down (instead of using a disposable e-mail and an internet connection that doesn't link back to your name), then maybe you deserve to pay some price for your comments.
I don't think whether you've made it possible should play any part in determining what you deserve. Sure, it plays a big part in determining what's likely to happen. But being smart enough to make it difficult or impossible to identify yourself doesn't mean you are any less deserving of a retribution. Smart libellous trolls should pay for their comments as much as dumb ones. Probably even more so, as "being smart" indicates a degree of premeditation. But being dumb isn't the crime here.
But if all the evidence you have are the lies, then where's the proof that the problems, or the "vast majority", even exist?
Allow me to declare that you are the single and sole cause of global warming. That is a lie. But if I'm the small percentage lying about it, that means there's balancing vast majority of people just dealing with it. They don't come here to whine about it.
Since you've clearly never played it, and relate to games in terms of WoW, let me explain.
Imagine WoW grinding that consists of moving your mouse a tiny, minuscule fraction across the screen then clicking, then selecting from a popup menu of three options. Then repeat 20 million times. All to accompaniment of hoe-down music.
The MMPOG element consists of your friends coming over to your farm to do the same, but invisibly, cos you can't see them.
You really think that Sony were relying on a bunch of Linux geeks to make their games console popular? Honestly??
The vast majority of PS3 users couldn't give a flying **** what OS it is running, as long as the games are good. That is the market Sony aimed for in their early adopters. That is the market they continue to target. That's what you do for a games/media platform.
All this is wasted effort unless you check the manufacture date on your 3D glasses and determine which astrology sign they are. Capricorn glasses sitting on the face of an Aries person simply won't work and may give you eye cancer. This is because of the influence of these combined signs collapse the photons into waves of radiation that penetrate your eyes at the speed of light. The manufactures don't want you to know this because it will upset their profits.
However, if you are Gemini it'll just be the most smoothest visual experience of your life, as the photons actually aline with your guiding planets, thus removing all their sharp edges at a sub-atomic level. The manufacturers also don't want you to know this, but customers we have advised on the purchase of 3D glasses have reported such an astounding difference that they may actually experience 4D. All without the expense of buying the higher spec of glasses!!
Phone my Professional Appliances astrology phone-line iAppAstro(TM) for more fancy sounding talk that sounds like it'll make a difference, but is really total BS.
they need to be giving them a reason to pay attention
How about; pay attention and pass your exams, don't and fail? What else should an adult student need for motivation? Chocolates? Extended recess? Gold stars on their wallchart?
Otherwise I agree. Nothing can beat a lecturer who is also a good communicator and teacher. But no students should be going into a college course demanding that the lectures make the subject interesting and fun for them, or it's all their fault they spent the day reading Facebook. Some things take nothing but hard work, and if they're not interesting enough in themselves then you either just stick at them or pick something else to learn.
All you say is true. But part of earning a degree is proving that you have the discipline to work and concentrate even when things aren't that much fun and or interesting. Try telling your boss that you've done none of your work today because the team meeting he held this morning didn't capture your attention adequately.
College students are not kindergarten kids. Professors are not teachers.
College learning isn't fun and games, before a five minute nap and a carton of OJ. If the students are so attention-deficit that they have difficult maintaining concentration on anything that isn't presented like a shopping channel, then perhaps they should go play and leave the college learning to the grown-ups.
unless laptops as a whole are distracting to _other_ students
I think we can take it as read that that's exactly what happens. It's very hard to concentrate on a lecture when all around you resembles a gaming internet cafe. And that also applies to whoever is trying to deliver the lecture.
The quality of wikipedia is the sum total of information it contains
In that case I propose that Wikipedia simply takes a raw dump of google's index and stores it. Never mind the quality, how about that quantity! Sure, it takes a bit of looking to find exactly what you want, the quality of most of it is poor, and there's forty different copies of everything that says different things, but it's all in there somewhere!
You seem to be confusing the role of Wikipedia with that of the internet.
And not finding the article...I mean, how often have you gone looking for Poland and instead been sucked into Pubic Hair
I don't know. Do you mean "Poland" the country, "Poland" the bar in downtown New York (free drinks 4-5pm Tuesdays) "Poland" the animé character from the French Canadian language translation of Pokemon Babies (Appears uncredited in the background of episode 2, series 4), "Poland" the deathmetal band from Singapore (unsigned), "Poland" the nickname of my friend Peter (hes awesum and sick, lol!), "Poland" the stripper joint in Los Angeles (Entry $10), "Poland" the joke article where they mis-spelt "Poo" or "Poland" the carefully crafted alternative article where user JimAtWork presents his radical and ground-breaking analysis of what really happened after WWII?
In effect it was a protest vote to show the government that the electorate was unhappy about "sleaze"
That's your interpretation. I'd say it was more to do with unhappiness with their current MP and a lack of any other real alternative. You can't call it much of a 'protest vote' when the other main parties withdrew from the contest in collusion with Bell. But in this case the issues that got Bell into Parliament had very real local relevancy, i.e. to remove the particularly sleezy Neil Hamilton MP. That is why Bell chose to contest that seat. I cannot see any of the issues put forward by the PPUK having the same localised significance anywhere.
A vote for the PPUK would not be a wasted vote.
Only if you believe that the PPUK's pathetically slim manifesto addresses the most pressing issues facing the country.
As if by voting for you, I genuinely hope you are to be the next Prime Ministers, replacing Gordon Brown.
Well this is clearly not going to happen. What would be a far likelier outcome, although still not going to happen, is that a Pirate Party candidate becomes your local MP. In which case you should be asking yourself; does this person understand the many and varied wishes of voters in my constituency, and are they capable of representing them in Parliament? There are plenty of small party or independent candidates that could do this, but they usually have extensive grounding in local politics and/or are driven by issues that have particular local significance. You cannot say this of Pirate Party candidates.
I can think of few better ways of wasting a vote that voting for a single issue, no-hope candidate.
Why is it that editors think deleting articles somehow makes it better?
Because ;
- if the quality of Wikipedia is measured by averaging the quality of all its articles, deleting the crap raises the quality of Wikipedia. - crap inevitably attracts more crap. If the crap articles weren't deleted they would multiply. - crap pages, written by people who mistake Wikipedia for a free web-host for their fan site, give Wikipedia a bad name. - if you can't find the good articles for stumbling over the crap, you're likely to stop looking and go some place else.
If crap pages weren't deleted Wikipedia would drown under them. Regardless of infinite disk space, or unlimited bandwidth. Wikipedia is essentially a database. If you fill a database with too much garbage it becomes useless, no matter how much data of true value in in there also. The noise to signal ratio becomes unbearable.
articles that were written by experts in the relevant field.
And how did you know they were experts? Other than them telling you of course. Cos you can totally believe what people tell you about themselves on the internet.
There's no "politicians' favor" either. If you're going to lift a quote out of a UK newspaper, at least have the decency to leave the spelling as it is, thanks.
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having imaginary friends sounds more like a serious mental condition that needs professional treatment, not respect.
Does that make it ok to do things specifically designed to annoy people who have a serious mental condition? If someone believes that George Washington is coming for around for an dinner, does kicking over George's chair and stealing his cutlery count as "professional treatment"? How about setting up a Facebook group that requests other people join in and go around and kick George's chair over? Is that going to help this seriously mentally ill person? Or just make them miserable and maybe get violent? What exactly is being achieved here other than getting your kicks tormenting others?
Just because someone is wrong (in your opinion) doesn't mean they should suffer for it and you should appoint yourself as the one to dish out the punishment. Especially if it is, as you claim, the result of an illness.
You missed the other distressing case of apostrophe abuse at "user's account". That is unless there really is only one user, and only one account.
People will probably object to this as "encouraging smoking"
I don't know. But I do know 3 things;
1 The game will inevitably be crap.
2 People will buy it anyway, cos, you know, it's about dope and your friends will lol.
3 The writers of this game are loving all the free publicity.
Irish terrorism was motivated more by politics than religion, whereas the opposite is true with Al Queada.
You think that Al-Queada are motivated by religion??? bin Laden is a politician, using religion as a tool to further his political aims. In this he is no different from a million other nut-job leaders throughout history. It's a whole lot easier to convince someone to die for a cause (or to kill someone else) if you wrap it up in a religion. Kill in the name of religion and you're guaranteed to meet god in an everlasting paradise. Kill in the name of politics and you're guaranteed, erm, come the revolution, a seat on the General Revolutionary Council Finance Sub-committee (Claims division) and maybe a pension.
Religions have plenty of flaws, but their use in violence, armed struggle, terrorism and wars is more an indication of how political leaders find it easiest to motivate and manipulate the masses. Unfortunately the the masses haven't worked this out yet and perhaps never will.
they'd recognize a name in the paper, because they Knew People.
It's even crazier than that. They knew people by their real name. It's positively stone age!
The primary purpose of having a sexual relationship remains the continued survival of the species.
Totally. Strangely though, when I put it on my match.com profile it was viewed somewhat negatively. But the rest of you can opt out on this one, I've got the continued survival of the species covered as my primary purpose. No need to thank me.
Love and companionship - that you can get from friends
Aren't you romantic. The primary purpose of having a friend remains the advancement of the species through social co-operation.
and you've made it POSSIBLE to track you down (instead of using a disposable e-mail and an internet connection that doesn't link back to your name), then maybe you deserve to pay some price for your comments.
I don't think whether you've made it possible should play any part in determining what you deserve. Sure, it plays a big part in determining what's likely to happen. But being smart enough to make it difficult or impossible to identify yourself doesn't mean you are any less deserving of a retribution. Smart libellous trolls should pay for their comments as much as dumb ones. Probably even more so, as "being smart" indicates a degree of premeditation. But being dumb isn't the crime here.
But if all the evidence you have are the lies, then where's the proof that the problems, or the "vast majority", even exist?
Allow me to declare that you are the single and sole cause of global warming. That is a lie. But if I'm the small percentage lying about it, that means there's balancing vast majority of people just dealing with it. They don't come here to whine about it.
So if I write stuff here about you that's untrue, on balance it becomes true because of stuff that other unspecified people haven't written here????
Rrrright...
Since you've clearly never played it, and relate to games in terms of WoW, let me explain.
Imagine WoW grinding that consists of moving your mouse a tiny, minuscule fraction across the screen then clicking, then selecting from a popup menu of three options. Then repeat 20 million times. All to accompaniment of hoe-down music.
The MMPOG element consists of your friends coming over to your farm to do the same, but invisibly, cos you can't see them.
Having fun yet?
You really think that Sony were relying on a bunch of Linux geeks to make their games console popular? Honestly??
The vast majority of PS3 users couldn't give a flying **** what OS it is running, as long as the games are good. That is the market Sony aimed for in their early adopters. That is the market they continue to target. That's what you do for a games/media platform.
All this is wasted effort unless you check the manufacture date on your 3D glasses and determine which astrology sign they are. Capricorn glasses sitting on the face of an Aries person simply won't work and may give you eye cancer. This is because of the influence of these combined signs collapse the photons into waves of radiation that penetrate your eyes at the speed of light. The manufactures don't want you to know this because it will upset their profits.
However, if you are Gemini it'll just be the most smoothest visual experience of your life, as the photons actually aline with your guiding planets, thus removing all their sharp edges at a sub-atomic level. The manufacturers also don't want you to know this, but customers we have advised on the purchase of 3D glasses have reported such an astounding difference that they may actually experience 4D. All without the expense of buying the higher spec of glasses!!
Phone my Professional Appliances astrology phone-line iAppAstro(TM) for more fancy sounding talk that sounds like it'll make a difference, but is really total BS.
Sorry, "contamination" is a scientific explanation, and we all know they are just a theories.
The plain truth about this is that the devil put them there to mislead us. We must ignore them.
they need to be giving them a reason to pay attention
How about; pay attention and pass your exams, don't and fail? What else should an adult student need for motivation? Chocolates? Extended recess? Gold stars on their wallchart?
Otherwise I agree. Nothing can beat a lecturer who is also a good communicator and teacher. But no students should be going into a college course demanding that the lectures make the subject interesting and fun for them, or it's all their fault they spent the day reading Facebook. Some things take nothing but hard work, and if they're not interesting enough in themselves then you either just stick at them or pick something else to learn.
All you say is true. But part of earning a degree is proving that you have the discipline to work and concentrate even when things aren't that much fun and or interesting. Try telling your boss that you've done none of your work today because the team meeting he held this morning didn't capture your attention adequately.
Did you discuss in class how laptop use may damage your mastery of spelling and grammar?
Just wondering.
College students are not kindergarten kids. Professors are not teachers.
College learning isn't fun and games, before a five minute nap and a carton of OJ. If the students are so attention-deficit that they have difficult maintaining concentration on anything that isn't presented like a shopping channel, then perhaps they should go play and leave the college learning to the grown-ups.
unless laptops as a whole are distracting to _other_ students
I think we can take it as read that that's exactly what happens. It's very hard to concentrate on a lecture when all around you resembles a gaming internet cafe. And that also applies to whoever is trying to deliver the lecture.
The quality of wikipedia is the sum total of information it contains
In that case I propose that Wikipedia simply takes a raw dump of google's index and stores it. Never mind the quality, how about that quantity! Sure, it takes a bit of looking to find exactly what you want, the quality of most of it is poor, and there's forty different copies of everything that says different things, but it's all in there somewhere!
You seem to be confusing the role of Wikipedia with that of the internet.
And not finding the article...I mean, how often have you gone looking for Poland and instead been sucked into Pubic Hair
I don't know. Do you mean "Poland" the country, "Poland" the bar in downtown New York (free drinks 4-5pm Tuesdays) "Poland" the animé character from the French Canadian language translation of Pokemon Babies (Appears uncredited in the background of episode 2, series 4), "Poland" the deathmetal band from Singapore (unsigned), "Poland" the nickname of my friend Peter (hes awesum and sick, lol!), "Poland" the stripper joint in Los Angeles (Entry $10), "Poland" the joke article where they mis-spelt "Poo" or "Poland" the carefully crafted alternative article where user JimAtWork presents his radical and ground-breaking analysis of what really happened after WWII?
In effect it was a protest vote to show the government that the electorate was unhappy about "sleaze"
That's your interpretation. I'd say it was more to do with unhappiness with their current MP and a lack of any other real alternative. You can't call it much of a 'protest vote' when the other main parties withdrew from the contest in collusion with Bell. But in this case the issues that got Bell into Parliament had very real local relevancy, i.e. to remove the particularly sleezy Neil Hamilton MP. That is why Bell chose to contest that seat. I cannot see any of the issues put forward by the PPUK having the same localised significance anywhere.
A vote for the PPUK would not be a wasted vote.
Only if you believe that the PPUK's pathetically slim manifesto addresses the most pressing issues facing the country.
As if by voting for you, I genuinely hope you are to be the next Prime Ministers, replacing Gordon Brown.
Well this is clearly not going to happen. What would be a far likelier outcome, although still not going to happen, is that a Pirate Party candidate becomes your local MP. In which case you should be asking yourself; does this person understand the many and varied wishes of voters in my constituency, and are they capable of representing them in Parliament? There are plenty of small party or independent candidates that could do this, but they usually have extensive grounding in local politics and/or are driven by issues that have particular local significance. You cannot say this of Pirate Party candidates.
I can think of few better ways of wasting a vote that voting for a single issue, no-hope candidate.
Why is it that editors think deleting articles somehow makes it better?
Because ;
- if the quality of Wikipedia is measured by averaging the quality of all its articles, deleting the crap raises the quality of Wikipedia.
- crap inevitably attracts more crap. If the crap articles weren't deleted they would multiply.
- crap pages, written by people who mistake Wikipedia for a free web-host for their fan site, give Wikipedia a bad name.
- if you can't find the good articles for stumbling over the crap, you're likely to stop looking and go some place else.
If crap pages weren't deleted Wikipedia would drown under them. Regardless of infinite disk space, or unlimited bandwidth. Wikipedia is essentially a database. If you fill a database with too much garbage it becomes useless, no matter how much data of true value in in there also. The noise to signal ratio becomes unbearable.
articles that were written by experts in the relevant field.
And how did you know they were experts? Other than them telling you of course. Cos you can totally believe what people tell you about themselves on the internet.
Did your driver instructor ever talk to you about the handbrake? It's not there just to hold your hat. Most drivers of experience find it very useful.
There's no "politicians' favor" either. If you're going to lift a quote out of a UK newspaper, at least have the decency to leave the spelling as it is, thanks.