John Doyle is worried about the Internet. In the next few years, millions more people will gain access to it, and existing users will place ever higher demands on our digital infrastructure, driven by applications like online movie services and Internet telephony. Doyle predicts that this skyrocketing traffic could cause the Internet to slow to a disastrous crawl, an endless digital gridlock stifling our economies. But Doyle, a professor of control and dynamic systems, electrical engineering, and bioengineering at Caltech, also believes the Internet can be saved. He and his colleagues have created a theory that has revealed some simple yet powerful ways to accelerate the flow of information. Vastly accelerate the flow: Doyle and his colleagues can now blast the entire text of all the books in the library of Congress across the United States in 15 minutes.
I haven't actually read the whole article in a while but from what it seems, this guy has a pretty good solution to this whole problem that I don't see discussed a lot.
Well, you could keep their attention with a high-presence speaker/headset mic system that booms your voice newly omnipresent voice whenever time comes for the lights to die down and the projector to turn on. That'd be pretty funny if you surprised kids with that, especially if one of them crapped themselves or something. It'd be funnier if you fucked up, though. Just don't fuck up. And I guess this only works the first time. I know I've seen this idea done before in news or something... In either case, as a just-barely-graduated person straight out of high school, I can safely say that I was one of those sleepy peoples, and I spent a lot of my time with my head down not really paying attention to class and instead thinking about shit like this. haha.
Of the in Japan that nobody gives a flying fuck about. From this page:
Q. Do I have to pay the NHK man?
A. The NHK man is a representative of Japan's state-run television station who goes door to door trying to collect NHK fees, a bi-monthly tax of about 2000 yen that everyone who owns a colour television in Japan is required by law to pay. They are generally very aggressive and threatening, usually sticking their foot in the door so that you can't close it on them, and somehow giving you the impression that dire consequences will ensue if you do not pay promptly. The truth is that although there really is a law, a lot of people in Japan completely ignore it and you can too if you want to. Telling them that you do not watch Japanese TV is not an acceptable excuse, because the law says that everyone who owns a TV has to pay so the best way to get rid of them is to just refuse outright. They are not going to have you arrested and they cannot garnishee your wages so if you don't watch NHK, so you don't have to be intimidated by them. Nor do they have any right to enter your apartment, so if you tell them that you do not have a TV there is no way for them to charge you (be careful if you have a satellite dish though).
I predict a similar fate for this one. These laws really are stupidly cussed laws, and everyone knows it. The only thing is that you can actually see if someone is using the internet really easily, unlike a simple TV picking up radio waves.
By the way, if this whole NHK tax thing is a big rumour or it's long done with or something, please inform me:)
In Edmonton, they have a little something called "Barwatch" that calls for (Voluntary per establishment) scanning of photo ID cards. I've submitted this a couple of times but it hasn't gotten to the front page just yet...
http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/barwatc h/barwatch.html
Not to stray too far off-topic, but the issue is a lot closer to home than you might have thought.
What, so it can't go the other way in the form of social programs, education, and other such fun? I mean, I know that it's incredibly naive and idealistic to say that those would completely eradicate the problem by themselves, but the government could at least take some initiative.
Naw, I just have lots of wapanese friends who liked to link weird shit to me off of/b/, and in turn I got hooked onto its chaos.
So yeah, I'm a bit of a/b/tard. That doesn't make me into a rapist, though. To say that is to say that anyone connected to the orly owl is a rapist. To say that is to say that anyone who likes anime, weird fun, stupid memes, or a combonation of all of the above is a dirty pedophile. To say that is kind of ignorant.
Because I'm not just talking about nude teens, I'm talking about jacking off to pictures of prepubescents as well.
The way youth is represented sexually in our society is kinda messed up, and I'm not just talking about 13-18 year olds.
I think child ponography is just part of a huger social problem affecting most of the world. Pedophilia stems from somewhere, right? I'm going to point my finger at our culture. It's kind of fucked up how we can condone stuff like letting elemetary schoolgirls to dress up like hoochies, "Child Beauty" pagents, and the like. If you can't pull your own head out of your ass and see what's going on right around you, look at Japan. General society out there basically tolerates a lot of weird shit that you'd normally only see on 4chan.org's/b/ imageboard, such as lolicon art.
If the government was actually interested in curbing child pornography, they'd attack it at the source: Fucked up society. It may sound a little hard to reach a proactive solution, but really, the solutions aren't that hard seeing how easy it is to veil larger, equally scary ulterior motives under getting rid of something that everyone accepts as evil without the majority of the general public batting an eyelid.
So, even if these measures that they're planning don't mean to harm people's personal freedoms all 1984 style, they're just giving a reactive and therefore non-effective solution to just a small part of a much, much broader problem.
This is pretty silly. People are going to not read that, then have adblock on firefox, and then have their accounts banned. Not cool. I know that if I didn't read this, that could happen.
I learned from high school courses. One last year (An introductory class), and then independent study this year (Not enough interest for a second-year class but it worked out). The thing is, I'm already forgetting. This tells me that the only way for me to really know the language properly is to constantly practise it. That probably means either moving to Japan or getting a job as a sushi chef like I'm kind of half-assedly planning to.
I also second not learning from games/anime. That won't teach you Japanese, that will just make you into a wapanese jackass. Commitment to learning a language properly doesn't mean playing video games and watching cartoons.
I'd just like to remind everyone that while there is no proven correlation between smoking the devil weed and cognitive disfunction, it still damages your lungs. Inhaling anything other than oxygen or air isn't the best of ideas if you like being healthy, especially if that anything other than happens to be some kind of smoke.
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http://mr.caltech.edu/media/Press_Releases/PR12356.html
From an article in discover magazine:
John Doyle is worried about the Internet. In the next few years, millions more people will gain access to it, and existing users will place ever higher demands on our digital infrastructure, driven by applications like online movie services and Internet telephony. Doyle predicts that this skyrocketing traffic could cause the Internet to slow to a disastrous crawl, an endless digital gridlock stifling our economies. But Doyle, a professor of control and dynamic systems, electrical engineering, and bioengineering at Caltech, also believes the Internet can be saved. He and his colleagues have created a theory that has revealed some simple yet powerful ways to accelerate the flow of information. Vastly accelerate the flow: Doyle and his colleagues can now blast the entire text of all the books in the library of Congress across the United States in 15 minutes.
I haven't actually read the whole article in a while but from what it seems, this guy has a pretty good solution to this whole problem that I don't see discussed a lot.
Well, you could keep their attention with a high-presence speaker/headset mic system that booms your voice newly omnipresent voice whenever time comes for the lights to die down and the projector to turn on. That'd be pretty funny if you surprised kids with that, especially if one of them crapped themselves or something. It'd be funnier if you fucked up, though. Just don't fuck up. And I guess this only works the first time. I know I've seen this idea done before in news or something... In either case, as a just-barely-graduated person straight out of high school, I can safely say that I was one of those sleepy peoples, and I spent a lot of my time with my head down not really paying attention to class and instead thinking about shit like this. haha.
Of the in Japan that nobody gives a flying fuck about. From this page: Q. Do I have to pay the NHK man? A. The NHK man is a representative of Japan's state-run television station who goes door to door trying to collect NHK fees, a bi-monthly tax of about 2000 yen that everyone who owns a colour television in Japan is required by law to pay. They are generally very aggressive and threatening, usually sticking their foot in the door so that you can't close it on them, and somehow giving you the impression that dire consequences will ensue if you do not pay promptly. The truth is that although there really is a law, a lot of people in Japan completely ignore it and you can too if you want to. Telling them that you do not watch Japanese TV is not an acceptable excuse, because the law says that everyone who owns a TV has to pay so the best way to get rid of them is to just refuse outright. They are not going to have you arrested and they cannot garnishee your wages so if you don't watch NHK, so you don't have to be intimidated by them. Nor do they have any right to enter your apartment, so if you tell them that you do not have a TV there is no way for them to charge you (be careful if you have a satellite dish though). I predict a similar fate for this one. These laws really are stupidly cussed laws, and everyone knows it. The only thing is that you can actually see if someone is using the internet really easily, unlike a simple TV picking up radio waves. By the way, if this whole NHK tax thing is a big rumour or it's long done with or something, please inform me :)
In Edmonton, they have a little something called "Barwatch" that calls for (Voluntary per establishment) scanning of photo ID cards. I've submitted this a couple of times but it hasn't gotten to the front page just yet... http://www.hackcanada.com/canadian/freedom/barwatc h/barwatch.html
Not to stray too far off-topic, but the issue is a lot closer to home than you might have thought.
bahahahaha
What, so it can't go the other way in the form of social programs, education, and other such fun? I mean, I know that it's incredibly naive and idealistic to say that those would completely eradicate the problem by themselves, but the government could at least take some initiative.
You have some good points, though.
Naw, I just have lots of wapanese friends who liked to link weird shit to me off of /b/, and in turn I got hooked onto its chaos.
So yeah, I'm a bit of a /b/tard. That doesn't make me into a rapist, though. To say that is to say that anyone connected to the orly owl is a rapist. To say that is to say that anyone who likes anime, weird fun, stupid memes, or a combonation of all of the above is a dirty pedophile. To say that is kind of ignorant.
Because I'm not just talking about nude teens, I'm talking about jacking off to pictures of prepubescents as well. The way youth is represented sexually in our society is kinda messed up, and I'm not just talking about 13-18 year olds.
I think child ponography is just part of a huger social problem affecting most of the world. Pedophilia stems from somewhere, right? I'm going to point my finger at our culture. It's kind of fucked up how we can condone stuff like letting elemetary schoolgirls to dress up like hoochies, "Child Beauty" pagents, and the like. If you can't pull your own head out of your ass and see what's going on right around you, look at Japan. General society out there basically tolerates a lot of weird shit that you'd normally only see on 4chan.org's /b/ imageboard, such as lolicon art.
If the government was actually interested in curbing child pornography, they'd attack it at the source: Fucked up society. It may sound a little hard to reach a proactive solution, but really, the solutions aren't that hard seeing how easy it is to veil larger, equally scary ulterior motives under getting rid of something that everyone accepts as evil without the majority of the general public batting an eyelid.
So, even if these measures that they're planning don't mean to harm people's personal freedoms all 1984 style, they're just giving a reactive and therefore non-effective solution to just a small part of a much, much broader problem.
This is pretty silly. People are going to not read that, then have adblock on firefox, and then have their accounts banned. Not cool. I know that if I didn't read this, that could happen.
I learned from high school courses. One last year (An introductory class), and then independent study this year (Not enough interest for a second-year class but it worked out). The thing is, I'm already forgetting. This tells me that the only way for me to really know the language properly is to constantly practise it. That probably means either moving to Japan or getting a job as a sushi chef like I'm kind of half-assedly planning to.
I also second not learning from games/anime. That won't teach you Japanese, that will just make you into a wapanese jackass. Commitment to learning a language properly doesn't mean playing video games and watching cartoons.
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Uhhh... music on DVDs? THE FUTURE IS NOW!!!
I'd just like to remind everyone that while there is no proven correlation between smoking the devil weed and cognitive disfunction, it still damages your lungs. Inhaling anything other than oxygen or air isn't the best of ideas if you like being healthy, especially if that anything other than happens to be some kind of smoke.
I haven't really toyed with this for a long while, but what about Beating it yourself?