I had never seen Linus before so I decided to watch the video you linked. I did not get the feeling that he was a dick.
My impression was that he had done some public speaking before but there was an element of discomfort at first. He was definitely harsh on CVS and SVN. I suspect it was not quite as funny as he was hoping it would be.
Honestly, he seems to be a very open and readable person with no cloak and dagger political backstabbing bullshit. I have no idea if I would like him as a personal friend but I definitely like him as a person now.
Anywhere else in Israel is almost as bad, since (after the ignorant idiots here look at a map of Israel and the scale) Israel is actually about the size of New Jersey, and the fallout would do almost the *entire* country, Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Except nobody really likes the Palestinians... think about that for a minute.
It is the same text (the hadith) that tells you to pray five time a day as the one that tells you to go to war and capture slave women. Yes most modern Muslims will ignore the war and slave part.
But the war and sex slave parts of it are the most satisfying.:)
Google tells me patience is a noun: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
I am currently in the Middle East and I can guarantee you that patience is NOT seen around here. I can find more tolerance here than patience... and that is saying something.
I use the three shells where I live on the east coast of America.
I could swear those were a west coast invention and used specifically in the San Angeles metro area... and they would be sorely needed since Taco Bell won the food wars. Are you a migrant?:)
So think about that the next time you want to "rise up against the government." You'd actually be rising up against a whole lot of average americans who VOTED to put that government in place, and if you think they will take kindly to your attempts to "take your country back", you will have another thing coming.
I do not take too kindly to their attempts to tyrannize me. If they can not stop doing it, what choice do *I* have? Just take it? Am I supposed to die rather than be gay (Alan Turing)? Am I supposed to die rather than keep my guns (wacko from Waco)?
Seriously, unless I am doing something against them, they have no right to do anything against me... and yet they constantly are. If it has to turn nasty like the civil war, then: so. be. it.:(
Give me liberty or give me death (and I already know that you want to give me death rather than my liberty)
The poverty line is defined by our almighty government as some $ 23K/year (2012 $) for a family of four. International poverty threshold is some $ 1825 a year (2005 $). Even allowing for inflation, there is an order of magnitude different.
Oh really? You can buy enough food for a family of four in America for less than $1825 in a year? So the rest is just gravy? Think again.
Having a place to live? Oh, you mean there are places you can squat in America? Really? Men with guns and sticks will not chase you away?
I think you should seriously rethink your definition of poverty and the costs of not being in it.
Everyone is human, but Americans are outliers. If you could only study a small handful of people, they would be an awful choice. They are not representative of the average. That is one of Henrich's minor points. If you were trying to predict the average human behaviour, and had to leave out a country, the US would be one of the best choices, because it is so different.
I disagree. Americans are no different than any other population that has had their heads intentionally programmed. All societies have had programming performed on them but few as professionally and intensely as Americans; however, your, and the articles, assertion that Americans are the worst population to generalize from is easily refuted: North Korea.
I am sure there are a few other societies that are head-tripped as bad or worse than Americans, but North Korea stands out as a shining example that can not be argued against.
If you want to study human psychology in the most natural circumstances possible, you will need to find nomads or Bedouins. Absolutely EVERY other society is programmed so far beyond nature that nothing can be asserted about natural human psychology.
The trend of studying only Americans was a result of cultural blindness.
No. Absolutely not. The trend of studying only Americans is because America is where the majority of research and knowledge is. I do not see psychologists from Romania importing Americans to do studies on and I do not fault American psychologists for not importing people for studies either. You get what is available and calling it cultural blindness is blaming someone for something out of their control.
In other words, if you want studies about non-Americans, then have psychologists in some other parts of the world do the studies on what they have available. Blaming American psychologists for studying Americans is just plain absurd.
The ultimate goal of the article isn't to claim that Americans are somehow no longer worth study, though, just that you can't make assumptions about everyone else based on how they act.
The only similarities I have seen around the world is that drivers in Kuwait are similar to drivers in Russia. Other than that, everyone seems to love to rape, murder, and steal rather than build their own stuff. Everything else is different and is dependent on the programming performed in that society.
Tipping (or "gift-giving") is a degrading and corrupting practice. It implies that the receiver is temporarily whoring himself to the tipper.
Wow. Just wow. Have you been living amongst feminazis or something? Just WTF? Why would you even attempt to twist tipping into such a bizarre frame?
If I receive good service, I give a good tip. If I receive great service, I give a great tip. If I give great service, receiving a great tip reinforces that behavior.
I only wish whores would try harder to receive tips. Whores in America are terrible terrible people who can not smile, refuse to make you feel comfortable, and generally think that they are doing you a favor. Nothing about that implies good service or that tips will be forthcoming.
Tips have absolutely nothing to do with whores or whoring... especially in America.
Thank you very much kind sir. I have bookmarked the site and will check it out tomorrow. I would also like to thank you for the details concerning your own conversion. It will give me ideas to sleep on tonight.:)
I have a very sizable spreadsheet with volume license keys on it as well and I see no support number... but okay. You have at least explained yourself.
Insulting me does not affect me. I already admitted that I am uneducated. My grammar sucks.
Look at what you wrote. It may not be golden but it is miles above what I see all over the net. It uses sentences, paragraphs, and has talking points... and is not being graded nor does it have any other importance in your life. That is my point. The original Ask Slashdot question is valid because so much writing is terrible.
I recently rewatched all six films from prequels through to original trilogy. I'll freely admit that Episode IV is pretty cheesy,
"I'm Luke Skywalker and I am here to rescue you.", is one of the greatest lines ever. It had the perfect blend of campiness and seriousness to make it a truely great film. Cheesy is when R2D2 is given a medal by whats-her-face (Natalie Portman) in episode 1.
I myself am guilty of long sentences that, if I had more time to spend on them, I would probably trim down but I don't because that's not what I'm paid to spend time on at my job (unless it's user doc).
Yes... but you used paragraphs and sentences more as less as they were intended... even if not perfectly executed. Your meaning was able to be gathered without too much pain on the part of the reader. I suspect that is really what is being alluded to.
Are you saying that you are polysyllabically challenged? We have a course for you right here. Learn to speak with longer words for $199. Yes, that is only 100 payments of only $19.99.
You don't need a university degree to wipe grandma's butt at $15/hr.
LOL. You are not even close buddy. Try more like $8.75/hr. Even worse, they do not hire you for 40 hours because then they have to give you benefits too. Yeah, welcome to the new indentured servitude.
Actually, this Ask Slashdot is indeed a valid question. I have been noticing that reading comprehension and comprehensible writing skills have been declining everywhere.
Seriously, think about it for a second: I have failed every grade since the 4th grade and dropped out of high school and yet *my* crappy writing skills are immensely superior to the crapfest I wade through from colij gradjutes every day.
What the hell is going on? Is there a war on consciousness? Is there a war against thought? How the FUCK does any school board or congressman or whomever actually propose that anything but science should be taught in a science class?
This Ask Slashdot may be a dice.com thing but it does not matter. It is relevant. Go find another article to whine in please. Kthx.
If someone else independently can implement code that does the same thing, then it is obvious it should not be eligible for a patent.
I am not so certain that it is so very obvious. Lots of people can do something they see someone else do first. None of them would have been able to do it ever if they had not seen someone else do it first.
Patents can turn the impossible into the possible. It is a shame that it is not what they are currently doing.
I was reading along with your points and nodding, thinking you might be on to something and then I ran across this:
5 - Better support
Once you said that, all of my shill alarm bells went ringing. Seriously, what kind of lies are you trying to push on to us and how gullible do you think we are? There is NO support at all, anywhere, at any time, for Microsoft Office. Web forums? Okay, but you get that AND the source for Libre Office or Open Office.
You would have had me fooled if you had not gone overboard and mentioned support. *sigh*
Reading back through it, I see this little gem as standing out like a shill point too now:
4 - Better compatibility with outside vendors
Oy. Shills shills everywhere and all the boards did shrink. Rimes upon rhymes.
Ah. If only those libraries and frameworks were as reliable as printf from the C standard library. Yes, I could spend weeks or months learning some framework only to find out 8 months later that everything that I created with it now has a huge glaring security hole because the "programmer" did not do proper bounds checking.
Seriously, get back to me when the framework de jeur (sp?) is as reliable as the C standard library.
I routinely drive over 250 miles a day... for pleasure (well, not currently, I do it for work right now). I would STILL love a Tesla roadster. I would drive it until the battery dies, park it, and then hop into one of my gas powered beasts until the roadster was done charging again. I Love Driving. Almost as much (maybe even more so) than sex.
I put over 30 thousand miles on my E55 AMG the first 3 months I owned it (and used up a brand new set of tires at the race track on one of those days!).:)
Um, you do realize that there is a world of difference between writing about events in an exciting manner and putting a whole new spin on things that causes people to be concerned where they shouldn't be... right?
Fascinating. I absolutely love performance cars. I could spend the rest of my life driving one and doing nothing else except sleep and eat. That being said...
You said you have built your own EV. I would be incredibly interested in building one myself. Max torque at 0 MPH really flips my lid. My questions to you are thus:
Are you using banks of lead acid car batteries? What electric motor/s are you using? How do you connect them to the wheels? Do you have a website showcasing your work?
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I had never seen Linus before so I decided to watch the video you linked. I did not get the feeling that he was a dick.
My impression was that he had done some public speaking before but there was an element of discomfort at first. He was definitely harsh on CVS and SVN. I suspect it was not quite as funny as he was hoping it would be.
Honestly, he seems to be a very open and readable person with no cloak and dagger political backstabbing bullshit. I have no idea if I would like him as a personal friend but I definitely like him as a person now.
Anywhere else in Israel is almost as bad, since (after the ignorant idiots here look at a map of Israel and the scale) Israel is actually about the size of New Jersey, and the fallout would do almost the *entire* country, Israelis and Palestinians alike.
Except nobody really likes the Palestinians... think about that for a minute.
You should stay longer, I hear the atmosphere there is eye-poppingly refreshing. ;)
It is the same text (the hadith) that tells you to pray five time a day as the one that tells you to go to war and capture slave women. Yes most modern Muslims will ignore the war and slave part.
But the war and sex slave parts of it are the most satisfying. :)
Google tells me patience is a noun: The capacity to accept or tolerate delay, trouble, or suffering without getting angry or upset.
I am currently in the Middle East and I can guarantee you that patience is NOT seen around here. I can find more tolerance here than patience... and that is saying something.
I use the three shells where I live on the east coast of America.
I could swear those were a west coast invention and used specifically in the San Angeles metro area... and they would be sorely needed since Taco Bell won the food wars. Are you a migrant? :)
So think about that the next time you want to "rise up against the government." You'd actually be rising up against a whole lot of average americans who VOTED to put that government in place, and if you think they will take kindly to your attempts to "take your country back", you will have another thing coming.
I do not take too kindly to their attempts to tyrannize me. If they can not stop doing it, what choice do *I* have? Just take it? Am I supposed to die rather than be gay (Alan Turing)? Am I supposed to die rather than keep my guns (wacko from Waco)?
Seriously, unless I am doing something against them, they have no right to do anything against me... and yet they constantly are. If it has to turn nasty like the civil war, then: so. be. it. :(
Give me liberty or give me death (and I already know that you want to give me death rather than my liberty)
The poverty line is defined by our almighty government as some $ 23K/year (2012 $) for a family of four. International poverty threshold is some $ 1825 a year (2005 $). Even allowing for inflation, there is an order of magnitude different.
Oh really? You can buy enough food for a family of four in America for less than $1825 in a year? So the rest is just gravy? Think again.
Having a place to live? Oh, you mean there are places you can squat in America? Really? Men with guns and sticks will not chase you away?
I think you should seriously rethink your definition of poverty and the costs of not being in it.
Everyone is human, but Americans are outliers. If you could only study a small handful of people, they would be an awful choice. They are not representative of the average. That is one of Henrich's minor points. If you were trying to predict the average human behaviour, and had to leave out a country, the US would be one of the best choices, because it is so different.
I disagree. Americans are no different than any other population that has had their heads intentionally programmed. All societies have had programming performed on them but few as professionally and intensely as Americans; however, your, and the articles, assertion that Americans are the worst population to generalize from is easily refuted: North Korea.
I am sure there are a few other societies that are head-tripped as bad or worse than Americans, but North Korea stands out as a shining example that can not be argued against.
If you want to study human psychology in the most natural circumstances possible, you will need to find nomads or Bedouins. Absolutely EVERY other society is programmed so far beyond nature that nothing can be asserted about natural human psychology.
The trend of studying only Americans was a result of cultural blindness.
No. Absolutely not. The trend of studying only Americans is because America is where the majority of research and knowledge is. I do not see psychologists from Romania importing Americans to do studies on and I do not fault American psychologists for not importing people for studies either. You get what is available and calling it cultural blindness is blaming someone for something out of their control.
In other words, if you want studies about non-Americans, then have psychologists in some other parts of the world do the studies on what they have available. Blaming American psychologists for studying Americans is just plain absurd.
The ultimate goal of the article isn't to claim that Americans are somehow no longer worth study, though, just that you can't make assumptions about everyone else based on how they act.
The only similarities I have seen around the world is that drivers in Kuwait are similar to drivers in Russia. Other than that, everyone seems to love to rape, murder, and steal rather than build their own stuff. Everything else is different and is dependent on the programming performed in that society.
Have a nice day
Tipping (or "gift-giving") is a degrading and corrupting practice. It implies that the receiver is temporarily whoring himself to the tipper.
Wow. Just wow. Have you been living amongst feminazis or something? Just WTF? Why would you even attempt to twist tipping into such a bizarre frame?
If I receive good service, I give a good tip. If I receive great service, I give a great tip. If I give great service, receiving a great tip reinforces that behavior.
I only wish whores would try harder to receive tips. Whores in America are terrible terrible people who can not smile, refuse to make you feel comfortable, and generally think that they are doing you a favor. Nothing about that implies good service or that tips will be forthcoming.
Tips have absolutely nothing to do with whores or whoring... especially in America.
Thank you very much kind sir. I have bookmarked the site and will check it out tomorrow. I would also like to thank you for the details concerning your own conversion. It will give me ideas to sleep on tonight. :)
I have a very sizable spreadsheet with volume license keys on it as well and I see no support number... but okay. You have at least explained yourself.
Cheers.
Insulting me does not affect me. I already admitted that I am uneducated. My grammar sucks.
Look at what you wrote. It may not be golden but it is miles above what I see all over the net. It uses sentences, paragraphs, and has talking points... and is not being graded nor does it have any other importance in your life. That is my point. The original Ask Slashdot question is valid because so much writing is terrible.
Either you stop drinking and you're not suffering anymore, or you don't, and you remain an alcoholic.
Not drinking *IS* suffering for an alcoholic. :(
I recently rewatched all six films from prequels through to original trilogy. I'll freely admit that Episode IV is pretty cheesy,
"I'm Luke Skywalker and I am here to rescue you.", is one of the greatest lines ever. It had the perfect blend of campiness and seriousness to make it a truely great film. Cheesy is when R2D2 is given a medal by whats-her-face (Natalie Portman) in episode 1.
I myself am guilty of long sentences that, if I had more time to spend on them, I would probably trim down but I don't because that's not what I'm paid to spend time on at my job (unless it's user doc).
Yes... but you used paragraphs and sentences more as less as they were intended... even if not perfectly executed. Your meaning was able to be gathered without too much pain on the part of the reader. I suspect that is really what is being alluded to.
Are you saying that you are polysyllabically challenged? We have a course for you right here. Learn to speak with longer words for $199. Yes, that is only 100 payments of only $19.99.
(math courses cost extra)
You don't need a university degree to wipe grandma's butt at $15/hr.
LOL. You are not even close buddy. Try more like $8.75/hr. Even worse, they do not hire you for 40 hours because then they have to give you benefits too. Yeah, welcome to the new indentured servitude.
Actually, this Ask Slashdot is indeed a valid question. I have been noticing that reading comprehension and comprehensible writing skills have been declining everywhere.
Seriously, think about it for a second: I have failed every grade since the 4th grade and dropped out of high school and yet *my* crappy writing skills are immensely superior to the crapfest I wade through from colij gradjutes every day.
What the hell is going on? Is there a war on consciousness? Is there a war against thought? How the FUCK does any school board or congressman or whomever actually propose that anything but science should be taught in a science class?
This Ask Slashdot may be a dice.com thing but it does not matter. It is relevant. Go find another article to whine in please. Kthx.
If someone else independently can implement code that does the same thing, then it is obvious it should not be eligible for a patent.
I am not so certain that it is so very obvious. Lots of people can do something they see someone else do first. None of them would have been able to do it ever if they had not seen someone else do it first.
Patents can turn the impossible into the possible. It is a shame that it is not what they are currently doing.
I was reading along with your points and nodding, thinking you might be on to something and then I ran across this:
5 - Better support
Once you said that, all of my shill alarm bells went ringing. Seriously, what kind of lies are you trying to push on to us and how gullible do you think we are? There is NO support at all, anywhere, at any time, for Microsoft Office. Web forums? Okay, but you get that AND the source for Libre Office or Open Office.
You would have had me fooled if you had not gone overboard and mentioned support. *sigh*
Reading back through it, I see this little gem as standing out like a shill point too now:
4 - Better compatibility with outside vendors
Oy. Shills shills everywhere and all the boards did shrink. Rimes upon rhymes.
Ah. If only those libraries and frameworks were as reliable as printf from the C standard library. Yes, I could spend weeks or months learning some framework only to find out 8 months later that everything that I created with it now has a huge glaring security hole because the "programmer" did not do proper bounds checking.
Seriously, get back to me when the framework de jeur (sp?) is as reliable as the C standard library.
I routinely drive over 250 miles a day... for pleasure (well, not currently, I do it for work right now). I would STILL love a Tesla roadster. I would drive it until the battery dies, park it, and then hop into one of my gas powered beasts until the roadster was done charging again. I Love Driving. Almost as much (maybe even more so) than sex.
I put over 30 thousand miles on my E55 AMG the first 3 months I owned it (and used up a brand new set of tires at the race track on one of those days!). :)
Um, you do realize that there is a world of difference between writing about events in an exciting manner and putting a whole new spin on things that causes people to be concerned where they shouldn't be... right?
Fascinating. I absolutely love performance cars. I could spend the rest of my life driving one and doing nothing else except sleep and eat. That being said...
You said you have built your own EV. I would be incredibly interested in building one myself. Max torque at 0 MPH really flips my lid. My questions to you are thus:
Are you using banks of lead acid car batteries? What electric motor/s are you using? How do you connect them to the wheels? Do you have a website showcasing your work?
Kind regards,
Dave