One reply to a recieved spam is a deliberate attack now? I think that if you send out two billion e-mails, the only person making an attack on your web server is you.
Yes, but what about people with real jobs? Contrary to what the canned media will tell you, the US still runs largely on heavy manufacturing and production of actual goods: are you really expecting people to enjoy living down the street from the rubber refining plant? The things can smell pretty bad, i can tell you.
And european cities tend to have been designed around mass transit (concentrated residential areas, etc) while american cities grew around the 'everyone has independent transportation' model (suburbs, alternating zoning) so in general europeans are always going to be able to use their cars less, unless americans actually knock down and rebuild huge tracts of urban landscape, which probably wouldn't go over well with anyone.
Berkeley has a few groups working on targetted drug delivery using artificaially constructed retroviruses, too. I think the Francis group and the Trauner group both have projects in that direction, plus a lot of the Bio boys.
Feet per second is a fairly standard measure for projectiles. I agree with you about miles per hour, though. Don't usually see that on an object that doesn't actually travel for hours, or miles.
From your one-line definition, i'm thinking that your 10% figure is missing a 0. That's less of a disorder and more of a basic trait of humanity which manifests itself in differing strengths from person to person.
Seriously. Psychologists need to stop calling every damned personality trait 'disorder'. It just slows things down by making people second guess themselves. Worse, it satisfies the californian need to pidgeonhole everything, and when the californians like what you're doing, you know you're doing the wrong thing.
That's pretty much the opposite of the point here. The point is that completely non-human-dependant changes could screw us all over, so we need to find out what they are and how to exert control over them if we want to survive. It may be alarmist sensationalization of an otherwise innocuous scientific study, but that IS the course of action implied by the story.
Depends. My broken clocks are alarm clocks, and got thrown out a window for waking me up... is "hour hand puncturing numeral 3, minute hand at right angle to clock face" an actual time now?
Yeah, i think that the black death pretty much showed us that plagues can't really do much to stop humanity. Maybe knock a particula civillization back in its quest to dominate most of the world for a few centures. Actualy wipe us out? Not likely.
Environmentalism has actually somehow managed to do as much harm (to us and the environment) as good, and social "justice" is currently headed inthe same direction. Education is harder to pin down, as there's not really anyone with an outside perspective on it. You need to realize that no one objects to the actual sentiments behind these efforts, we just have a problem with the fact that they're generally organized and run by fucking idiots who couldn't find philosphical balance if you beat them over the head with it, and generally end up achieveing the exact opposite of their noble aim.
There, I fed the troll. Now stop taunting the moderates.
Empiricism has been around as long as humans have. The "scientific method" is just a formalization of empiricism to make it faster and more efficient. So the basic principle of the scientific method is what gave you that parchment and quill/ink, too. Not really relevant to your main point, but i just thought i'd note it since you seeme to think that science is a recent invention (last hundred years or so? haha, right)
Loving your neighbor does not necessarily preclude killing them. Sometimes it is necessary to kill to protect others, ensure social stability, whatever, without actual malice of any kind toward the executed. Anyone who has ever had to put down a rabid dog knows what I mean.
Admittedly, the old testament specifically forbids killing, but it also states that if you know that your neighbor's daughter is being sexually promiscuous, you are morally obligated to kill her (oh, leviticus, how many easy targets for ridicule you provide). However, waht with Jesus being a redeemer and all, I would tend to reject the old book in favor of the slightly less absolutist new one. Maybe that's just me, though.
Yeah, they follow the same rule. The church has been around in various incarnations for on the order of 7000-10000 years (at least, the passages that cause the bitching in this case have been around that long), and Darwinism for on the order of a century or two. So Darwin's proponents are tolerated for about 1/100 of the time that the average christian will listen to a religious speaker, i.e about two seconds.
Not if you're contracted for 40 hours. The employer is breaking the contract by making you work more, so if they fire you for not doing it then they're the ones that get screwed over in the following lawsuit and wrongful firing charges.
They're also free to accept the federal money and cooperate with the military only to the minimum extent required by law. It's not like the government is just handing them money as a favor, either, it's providing funding to the school in return for services and projects. If I pay you five bucks to fix my car, I don't gain the right to reorganize your billing department. Now, if the government were paying the universities to gather recruiting information for them, it would be different.
Uh (a) most music stores have a pair of headphones you can use to listen to music before buying and (b) pretty much every store ever anywhere has some sort of return policy, and only rarely is it 'no returns'. Also, there are nifty things called 'radios', and, frankly, I don't think that very many people buy music from a band they've never heard, so you've already 'test-driven' the stuff.
Seriously, now. I'm all about the bad analogies, but if you're going to make things up from scratch to support a false point, please try to be a little less obvious about it.
I have this awesome device, it detects alterations in the electromagnetic ether and transforms it into sound, usually musical. I'm told that these are fairly common, and have been since the beginning of the century.
From your characterization of the typical slashdot reaction as ridiculously pro-american and completely unfearful of the potential of Chinese ascendance, I can only assume that you have never seen a single word of a single slashdot article or thread, ever.
So, yeah, if the cycle continues for a thousand generations and the traits and social groups continue in family lines for long enough for them to become physically ingrained instead of socially acquired behavior, you might be on to something.
Luckily for us, no civillization has even managed to keep the same form of government for 20000 years, much less the same social structure. So I guess we're safe.
Eh, America really doesn't try that hard to dominate anybody. Sure, we'll do what we feel is necessary to protect our interests, but the instances where we'll go beyond that in order to obtain actual power over the lives of people in other nations are actually relatively few and far between, compared to... yeah, pretty much every other country, ever. I imagine the fact that we do as little as we feel we safely can with our power is the main reason we still have it. Sure, there will be a big hulabaloo over america falling behind in things, but it will always be an effort to improve internal conditions, not because we actually care about the relative state of other countries. The US has a really thick isolationist core, though that may suprise some people. We could slip entirely from the world stage and most of us just... wouldn't... care.
So, sure, China, go for it. We'll even make a physical 'science crown' and hand it off to you in a ceremony if it will make you feel important. Just don't expect us to give a damn about your country, please.
No, he's saying that you're a bunch of ignorant, ungrateful jackasses who wouldn't know real abuse of power if it beat you over the head with a heavy mace and strung you from the nearest tree. Freedom doesn't just mean your right to criticise us, it means our right to criticise you as well. If you're going to accuse anyone criticising you of trying to abridge your freedom to speak, then you obviously don't entirely understand what you're talking about.
That is entirely bullshit. My engineering department is full of american citizens, mostly. There's something like one in 10 or so grad students from other countries, but most of them are from old soviet states or the Germany area. And general research is generally shared between countries anyhow, both in the academic world and the business world (due to the fact that a lot of businesses are multinational). Even your claims that 'no one knows what engineers do' and 'legal and medical costs are the highest in the world' aren't correct. In certain european countries which shall remain nameless the cost of medical services is roughtly 50% of your income in taxes (significantly more than I pay over here), and even the dumbest layman can tell you that engineers design and build stuff. As for legal costs... well, when you deal with crooks, expect to be robbed.
I think you have no concept of the ridiculous amount of money that is saved by outsourcing. You could fire all of a given company's CEOs, get a government subsidy, and rob a few banks, and still not scratch the surface of the cost difference.
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One reply to a recieved spam is a deliberate attack now? I think that if you send out two billion e-mails, the only person making an attack on your web server is you.
Yes, but what about people with real jobs? Contrary to what the canned media will tell you, the US still runs largely on heavy manufacturing and production of actual goods: are you really expecting people to enjoy living down the street from the rubber refining plant? The things can smell pretty bad, i can tell you.
And european cities tend to have been designed around mass transit (concentrated residential areas, etc) while american cities grew around the 'everyone has independent transportation' model (suburbs, alternating zoning) so in general europeans are always going to be able to use their cars less, unless americans actually knock down and rebuild huge tracts of urban landscape, which probably wouldn't go over well with anyone.
Berkeley has a few groups working on targetted drug delivery using artificaially constructed retroviruses, too. I think the Francis group and the Trauner group both have projects in that direction, plus a lot of the Bio boys.
Feet per second is a fairly standard measure for projectiles. I agree with you about miles per hour, though. Don't usually see that on an object that doesn't actually travel for hours, or miles.
From your one-line definition, i'm thinking that your 10% figure is missing a 0. That's less of a disorder and more of a basic trait of humanity which manifests itself in differing strengths from person to person.
Seriously. Psychologists need to stop calling every damned personality trait 'disorder'. It just slows things down by making people second guess themselves. Worse, it satisfies the californian need to pidgeonhole everything, and when the californians like what you're doing, you know you're doing the wrong thing.
That's pretty much the opposite of the point here. The point is that completely non-human-dependant changes could screw us all over, so we need to find out what they are and how to exert control over them if we want to survive. It may be alarmist sensationalization of an otherwise innocuous scientific study, but that IS the course of action implied by the story.
Depends. My broken clocks are alarm clocks, and got thrown out a window for waking me up... is "hour hand puncturing numeral 3, minute hand at right angle to clock face" an actual time now?
Yeah, i think that the black death pretty much showed us that plagues can't really do much to stop humanity. Maybe knock a particula civillization back in its quest to dominate most of the world for a few centures. Actualy wipe us out? Not likely.
Environmentalism has actually somehow managed to do as much harm (to us and the environment) as good, and social "justice" is currently headed inthe same direction. Education is harder to pin down, as there's not really anyone with an outside perspective on it. You need to realize that no one objects to the actual sentiments behind these efforts, we just have a problem with the fact that they're generally organized and run by fucking idiots who couldn't find philosphical balance if you beat them over the head with it, and generally end up achieveing the exact opposite of their noble aim.
There, I fed the troll. Now stop taunting the moderates.
Empiricism has been around as long as humans have. The "scientific method" is just a formalization of empiricism to make it faster and more efficient. So the basic principle of the scientific method is what gave you that parchment and quill/ink, too. Not really relevant to your main point, but i just thought i'd note it since you seeme to think that science is a recent invention (last hundred years or so? haha, right)
Loving your neighbor does not necessarily preclude killing them. Sometimes it is necessary to kill to protect others, ensure social stability, whatever, without actual malice of any kind toward the executed. Anyone who has ever had to put down a rabid dog knows what I mean.
Admittedly, the old testament specifically forbids killing, but it also states that if you know that your neighbor's daughter is being sexually promiscuous, you are morally obligated to kill her (oh, leviticus, how many easy targets for ridicule you provide). However, waht with Jesus being a redeemer and all, I would tend to reject the old book in favor of the slightly less absolutist new one. Maybe that's just me, though.
Yeah, they follow the same rule. The church has been around in various incarnations for on the order of 7000-10000 years (at least, the passages that cause the bitching in this case have been around that long), and Darwinism for on the order of a century or two. So Darwin's proponents are tolerated for about 1/100 of the time that the average christian will listen to a religious speaker, i.e about two seconds.
Not if you're contracted for 40 hours. The employer is breaking the contract by making you work more, so if they fire you for not doing it then they're the ones that get screwed over in the following lawsuit and wrongful firing charges.
They're also free to accept the federal money and cooperate with the military only to the minimum extent required by law. It's not like the government is just handing them money as a favor, either, it's providing funding to the school in return for services and projects. If I pay you five bucks to fix my car, I don't gain the right to reorganize your billing department. Now, if the government were paying the universities to gather recruiting information for them, it would be different.
Football? Oh, yeah. We call that "soccer" over here in the US, and it's a game only kindergardeners play.
Uh (a) most music stores have a pair of headphones you can use to listen to music before buying and (b) pretty much every store ever anywhere has some sort of return policy, and only rarely is it 'no returns'. Also, there are nifty things called 'radios', and, frankly, I don't think that very many people buy music from a band they've never heard, so you've already 'test-driven' the stuff.
Seriously, now. I'm all about the bad analogies, but if you're going to make things up from scratch to support a false point, please try to be a little less obvious about it.
I have this awesome device, it detects alterations in the electromagnetic ether and transforms it into sound, usually musical. I'm told that these are fairly common, and have been since the beginning of the century.
From your characterization of the typical slashdot reaction as ridiculously pro-american and completely unfearful of the potential of Chinese ascendance, I can only assume that you have never seen a single word of a single slashdot article or thread, ever.
So, yeah, if the cycle continues for a thousand generations and the traits and social groups continue in family lines for long enough for them to become physically ingrained instead of socially acquired behavior, you might be on to something.
Luckily for us, no civillization has even managed to keep the same form of government for 20000 years, much less the same social structure. So I guess we're safe.
Eh, America really doesn't try that hard to dominate anybody. Sure, we'll do what we feel is necessary to protect our interests, but the instances where we'll go beyond that in order to obtain actual power over the lives of people in other nations are actually relatively few and far between, compared to... yeah, pretty much every other country, ever. I imagine the fact that we do as little as we feel we safely can with our power is the main reason we still have it. Sure, there will be a big hulabaloo over america falling behind in things, but it will always be an effort to improve internal conditions, not because we actually care about the relative state of other countries. The US has a really thick isolationist core, though that may suprise some people. We could slip entirely from the world stage and most of us just... wouldn't... care.
So, sure, China, go for it. We'll even make a physical 'science crown' and hand it off to you in a ceremony if it will make you feel important. Just don't expect us to give a damn about your country, please.
No, he's saying that you're a bunch of ignorant, ungrateful jackasses who wouldn't know real abuse of power if it beat you over the head with a heavy mace and strung you from the nearest tree. Freedom doesn't just mean your right to criticise us, it means our right to criticise you as well. If you're going to accuse anyone criticising you of trying to abridge your freedom to speak, then you obviously don't entirely understand what you're talking about.
That is entirely bullshit. My engineering department is full of american citizens, mostly. There's something like one in 10 or so grad students from other countries, but most of them are from old soviet states or the Germany area. And general research is generally shared between countries anyhow, both in the academic world and the business world (due to the fact that a lot of businesses are multinational). Even your claims that 'no one knows what engineers do' and 'legal and medical costs are the highest in the world' aren't correct. In certain european countries which shall remain nameless the cost of medical services is roughtly 50% of your income in taxes (significantly more than I pay over here), and even the dumbest layman can tell you that engineers design and build stuff. As for legal costs... well, when you deal with crooks, expect to be robbed.
I think you have no concept of the ridiculous amount of money that is saved by outsourcing. You could fire all of a given company's CEOs, get a government subsidy, and rob a few banks, and still not scratch the surface of the cost difference.
Thank you for so neatly proving the grandparent's point.