"intelligence" is a stupid term in itself, because it assumes one-scale look at one's mental capabilities. For me, for example, women with good understanding and empathy ("social intelligence" ?)
Maybe what's stupid is making up terms like "social intelligence" to replace the perfectly good word "empathy". Redefining "musical talent" as "musical intelligence" is just a way to try to destroy a perfectly good term. This is much like the attempt to destroy Science by re-labelling "Creationism" as "Creation Science".
1. Is that legal? 2. Aren't these connections one-way?
It is legal (USA) for the cable companies to report viewer totals down to the zip-code (incl. +4, I think). They cannot legally reveal information about indivdual houses, and they couldn't provide information about *who* in the household is doing the watching. Nielsen tells that advertisers that it was the 19-year-old son watching Firefly, and the 43-year-old mother watching Desperate Housewives.
Nielsen doesn't cancel shows. Stupid people choosing to watch Survivor instead of Wonderfalls, cancel shows. That being said, if the audience wants stupid crap, who is Nielsen (or anyone else) to tell the advertisers that they must give money to networks to produce shows that no one is going to watch?
Mount Rushmore & the giant Spache will last how long?
It will take only a few moments for the aliens' bureaucracy to release a statment that those aren't faces, just a rock formation. They only look like faces because of shadows and reflected light.
So what you're saying is that the spike seen in the study in the Pacific Northwest was not in fact caused by increased TV watching, but by the rise of Microsoft and the jobs that came with it!
Actually, I'm saying that the 30% spike in Kansas might be from TV, but the 600% spike in Silicon Valley, Boston, Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle, etc. might be from recessive gene carriers finding each other. IANAD, take it up with Wired.
Wired Magazine had an article ("The Geek Disease"?) about computer professionals having a high incidence of children with Aspergers and Autism. The suggestion was that the same genes that cause geeky behavior (fascination with complex systems, interest in language structure, poor social skills, etc.) cause, or pre-dispose, someone to Autism and related syndromes.
They pointed to a spike in Autism cases, especially in Tech-centers. In these high-tech centers, geeks of both sexes get to meet, mingle, and marry each other. So, the odds of recessive geek-genes being reinforced go way up. This is from memory, and from Wired (not JAMA, not SciAm), so take it with a grain of salt.
Oh hey, if I do wild, crazy, stupid, and illegal stuff then write in lurid and exagerated detail about it
On MySpace, you can write about stupid and illegal stuff without actually doing it. Unless you are a gifted SFX artist, making your YouTube video pretty much means that you have to perform those acts. So YouTube probably causes more concussions and broken bones than MySpace. However, my research suggests that exposure to MySpace does obliterate a person's ability to judge or execute 'design'.
Considering apparent correlation of fat and liberal.
That's from a local (and skewed*) perspective. Look at it from the French perspective: they just found a new way to call Americans stupid. And by using technical terms like BMI and IQ**, the French and the rest of the First World can laugh while Americans wonder what (who) everybody is laughing at.
** While the rednecks are saying that your truck's engine displacement is more important than your IQ, the post-modernist liberals are scrambling to declare that IQ is meaningless.
If you use Linux you have to expect that you won't be able to use the latest and greatest hardware available unless you're willing to accept some bitter terms from the manufacturer to protect their intellectual property
How about: "If you use ANY operating system, you won't be able to use the latest and greatest hardware available unless you're willing to accept some bitter terms from the manufacturer to protect their intellectual property". Using Linux doesn't subject you to terms that are more bitter, it's just that we Linux users have grown to expect freedom.
Unfortunately, US law has nothing to do with it; the FreeDB2 developer is in Australia.
That sucks for Australian listeners, but copyright law is dictated by jurisdiction. If I am sitting in American, I can suck-down FreeDB2 data, and do anything that I want with it. For any copy of this data sitting in the US, no matter how it got there, it is practically in the public domain*. Australian law cannot impact this.
* The data is in the public domain, a particular 'expression' of the data can be copyrighted. So if I download a PDF of the data from an Australian website, that PDF can be copyrighted. But if I copy the raw text into a database, with no font, color, and layout information, then my database is not infringing on the 'expression' that was bound by copyright. I can do anything that I want to with this database.
Did you miss last years Eminent Domain flap? In the US, your local town council, county commission, state legislature, etc. can take that property that's been in your family for 80 years, and give it to a developer. The developer turns it into a shopping mall, and the tax base is increased. Voila, there's the governments compelling interest.
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The legalities of applying the GFDL or GPL to a database like the one managed by freedb.org are unclear.
IANAL, however as I understand it under US law: it is not possible to apply any license to this database, because the licenses are grants of rights, based on the copyright of the owner. However, copyright does not apply to this data. No one can hold a copyright on 'facts', only 'expressions'. A clearly stated (though no more authoritative) explanation from the 'copyright' article on wikipedia:
Compilations of facts or data may also be copyrighted, but such a copyright is thin; it only applies to the particular selection and arrangement of the included items, not to the particular items themselves.
There is one further point of commonality: many programmers enjoy molesting users. How else can you explain making a user reboot their computer when they point it to a new DNS server?
All my previous wallets kept collecting receipts, change, etc until they started taking over my pocket.
I had that problem. Instead of buying a new wallet, I beat the old one into submission and said, "Bad Wallet!" until it stopped collecting receipts and change.
if they have kids whom it's negatively impacting, take them and give them to someone who can take care of them.
How many mentally impaired, crack-addicted six year-olds can I sign you up for (not even touching the issue of interracial adoption). We already have a severe shortage of foster parents in the US. Taking away every child who is 'negatively impacted' by their parents' stupidity would be disasterous.
OTOH, Congressman Foley has generously volunteered to open his home to nine troubled teenage boys.
I guess the world economy only counts if it give the U.S. and advantage.
No, the world economy only counts if it gives the extremely wealthy more wealth. Who is this 'U.S.' of which you speak? Do you mean the millions of workers who lost their jobs (some of whom got back 'a job', lower hourly wage, part-time, no healthcare)? Hey, I'm 'U.S', where's my benefit? Or maybe you mean U.S. companies like Stanley Tools; no, wait, they're not a U.S. company (they re-incorporated on a Caribbean island to get massive tax benefits). Maybe you mean the U.S. government that now gets less money from Stanley Tools than they used to, gets less income tax from unemployed and underemployed workers than they used to, and has to pay unemployment benefits, welfare benefits, and pick up the tab for a lot of uncollectable medical bills.
The 'U.S.' does not benefit from globalization. The extremely wealthy benefit from globalization.
What's your home address? I bet that I am a better shot than you are, especially at 3am when I am prepared to rob you, and you are asleep. Seeing as how you post on/., you probably have some cool toys that I would be interested in.
The police benefit you just by being there; you don't have to see them beating-down a perp on your property for you to be deriving benefit. Same goes true for the military. The soldiers who aren't being bled in stupid foreign entanglements, really are protecting our country from foreign invaders (who oddly enough have less respect for our Constitution than your current government).
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Maybe what's stupid is making up terms like "social intelligence" to replace the perfectly good word "empathy". Redefining "musical talent" as "musical intelligence" is just a way to try to destroy a perfectly good term. This is much like the attempt to destroy Science by re-labelling "Creationism" as "Creation Science".
It is legal (USA) for the cable companies to report viewer totals down to the zip-code (incl. +4, I think). They cannot legally reveal information about indivdual houses, and they couldn't provide information about *who* in the household is doing the watching. Nielsen tells that advertisers that it was the 19-year-old son watching Firefly, and the 43-year-old mother watching Desperate Housewives.
Nielsen doesn't cancel shows. Stupid people choosing to watch Survivor instead of Wonderfalls, cancel shows. That being said, if the audience wants stupid crap, who is Nielsen (or anyone else) to tell the advertisers that they must give money to networks to produce shows that no one is going to watch?
It will take only a few moments for the aliens' bureaucracy to release a statment that those aren't faces, just a rock formation. They only look like faces because of shadows and reflected light.
Actually, I'm saying that the 30% spike in Kansas might be from TV, but the 600% spike in Silicon Valley, Boston, Raleigh-Durham Research Triangle, etc. might be from recessive gene carriers finding each other. IANAD, take it up with Wired.
He probably wishes his backdoor had a little more security.
Why couldn't you have just stuck with stomping and shouting?
They pointed to a spike in Autism cases, especially in Tech-centers. In these high-tech centers, geeks of both sexes get to meet, mingle, and marry each other. So, the odds of recessive geek-genes being reinforced go way up. This is from memory, and from Wired (not JAMA, not SciAm), so take it with a grain of salt.
On MySpace, you can write about stupid and illegal stuff without actually doing it. Unless you are a gifted SFX artist, making your YouTube video pretty much means that you have to perform those acts. So YouTube probably causes more concussions and broken bones than MySpace. However, my research suggests that exposure to MySpace does obliterate a person's ability to judge or execute 'design'.
In Europe, it's on every night. They name it different things in different countries. Try "Colpo Grosso" in Italy, "Tutti Frutti" in Germany, etc.
In America, it's only on for about two seconds, during a "football" game, to commemorate hundreds of hours of pending Congressional outrage.
Oh yeah! The recent Darwin Awards just haven't had that same 'sparkle' that they used to.
That's from a local (and skewed*) perspective. Look at it from the French perspective: they just found a new way to call Americans stupid. And by using technical terms like BMI and IQ**, the French and the rest of the First World can laugh while Americans wonder what (who) everybody is laughing at.
* Top 12 states by obesity prevalence (note the "Red State" theme): Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, Tennessee, Michigan, Texas, Kentucky, Indiana, South Carolina, Arkansas, Georgia. http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/modules.php?name= News&file=article&sid=3063
** While the rednecks are saying that your truck's engine displacement is more important than your IQ, the post-modernist liberals are scrambling to declare that IQ is meaningless.
How about: "If you use ANY operating system, you won't be able to use the latest and greatest hardware available unless you're willing to accept some bitter terms from the manufacturer to protect their intellectual property". Using Linux doesn't subject you to terms that are more bitter, it's just that we Linux users have grown to expect freedom.
That sucks for Australian listeners, but copyright law is dictated by jurisdiction. If I am sitting in American, I can suck-down FreeDB2 data, and do anything that I want with it. For any copy of this data sitting in the US, no matter how it got there, it is practically in the public domain*. Australian law cannot impact this.
* The data is in the public domain, a particular 'expression' of the data can be copyrighted. So if I download a PDF of the data from an Australian website, that PDF can be copyrighted. But if I copy the raw text into a database, with no font, color, and layout information, then my database is not infringing on the 'expression' that was bound by copyright. I can do anything that I want to with this database.
Did you miss last years Eminent Domain flap? In the US, your local town council, county commission, state legislature, etc. can take that property that's been in your family for 80 years, and give it to a developer. The developer turns it into a shopping mall, and the tax base is increased. Voila, there's the governments compelling interest.
IANAL, however as I understand it under US law: it is not possible to apply any license to this database, because the licenses are grants of rights, based on the copyright of the owner. However, copyright does not apply to this data. No one can hold a copyright on 'facts', only 'expressions'. A clearly stated (though no more authoritative) explanation from the 'copyright' article on wikipedia:
Compilations of facts or data may also be copyrighted, but such a copyright is thin; it only applies to the particular selection and arrangement of the included items, not to the particular items themselves.
Running Microsoft Anti-Virus: working...working...working...out of memory.
Until it sinks in.
That is the genius of their design. Go visit www.yahoo.com; please finish throwing up *before* coming back here.
There is one further point of commonality: many programmers enjoy molesting users. How else can you explain making a user reboot their computer when they point it to a new DNS server?
I had that problem. Instead of buying a new wallet, I beat the old one into submission and said, "Bad Wallet!" until it stopped collecting receipts and change.
Come on over to my place Saturday night. Bring some Chianti. We'll ruminate over this issue, until we get to the meat of the matter.
How many mentally impaired, crack-addicted six year-olds can I sign you up for (not even touching the issue of interracial adoption). We already have a severe shortage of foster parents in the US. Taking away every child who is 'negatively impacted' by their parents' stupidity would be disasterous.
OTOH, Congressman Foley has generously volunteered to open his home to nine troubled teenage boys.
No, the world economy only counts if it gives the extremely wealthy more wealth. Who is this 'U.S.' of which you speak? Do you mean the millions of workers who lost their jobs (some of whom got back 'a job', lower hourly wage, part-time, no healthcare)? Hey, I'm 'U.S', where's my benefit? Or maybe you mean U.S. companies like Stanley Tools; no, wait, they're not a U.S. company (they re-incorporated on a Caribbean island to get massive tax benefits). Maybe you mean the U.S. government that now gets less money from Stanley Tools than they used to, gets less income tax from unemployed and underemployed workers than they used to, and has to pay unemployment benefits, welfare benefits, and pick up the tab for a lot of uncollectable medical bills.
The 'U.S.' does not benefit from globalization. The extremely wealthy benefit from globalization.
Hell, never give me my money. Just let me spend my winnings at Amazon.com, ThinkGeek.com, BestBuy.com, etc.
What's your home address? I bet that I am a better shot than you are, especially at 3am when I am prepared to rob you, and you are asleep. Seeing as how you post on /., you probably have some cool toys that I would be interested in.
The police benefit you just by being there; you don't have to see them beating-down a perp on your property for you to be deriving benefit. Same goes true for the military. The soldiers who aren't being bled in stupid foreign entanglements, really are protecting our country from foreign invaders (who oddly enough have less respect for our Constitution than your current government).