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100 million bird deaths from buildings each year? I'm not saying you're wrong since I have no information on the statistics myself, but that seems like a rediculously high number.
I feel sorry for the poor saps that have to clean up the mess made by all those birds splattering all over buildings though.
I know they are being safe but all this back and forth ("we are launching! - we are not launching!") is looking really bad from the public's point of view. And the problem then is that it is the public's tax money that is being spent for such things.
Very true. It doesn't help that most people don't seem to care about science/exploring space/pushing the limits of technology/etc. Even though I wasn't sure how much we would really learn by sending the rovers to Mars, when I first heard about the plan my first thought was "Wow, how fucking cool is that?" But when I mentioned it to some other people, including several of my friends, a common reaction was disapproval and some rambling about the homeless or something.
It's a shame but as long as people have their SUVs and TV, they don't care about the future of science and technology. So while the back and forth thing is looking bad, any kind of problem during the actual mission (even if it didn't result in the deaths of the crew) would probably just about kill NASA's space program.
Erm that was supposed to be attached to the flamebait modded post... I guess an AC had pointed it out already and I accidentally clicked on his post or something.
I think you misunderstand. The poster I originally replied to stated that democracy is better than capitalism. I pointed out the fact that you can't really make such a comparison since they are two (mostly) distinct concepts - one being a form of governemnt, the other an economic system.
As far as your A->B comment I'm assuming you mean Capitalism leads to removal of democracy which leads to something worse and therefore, capitalism leads to something worse. Personally I find that logic a bit speculative. I could make a similar statement about phone calls. Phone calls can be made to terrorists which may lead to a terrorist attack and therefore, phone calls lead to terrorism.
More importantly, I think you are confusing capitalism with corporatism (probably closer to what we have in the US). I say that because you seemed to be concerned mostly with the actions of corporations (which of course are protected by the legislature in a corporatist state).
I'm having a difficult time parsing your post to understand what you are talking about but I just thought I'd point out that democracy is a form of government. Capitalism is an economic system. So I'm not sure what you meant by the last half of your post but democracy and capitalism go quite well together.
As someone who is still in college and thus was in high school only a few years ago, I would have to say that you probably have not been in the public school system in quite some time. The teachers ARE indeed a real problem. I was fortunate enough to live in one of the most affluent counties in my state and thus had access to many extracurricular resources and the like but it seems like teachers must be the same everywhere. Most of the ones I had were average. They had a mild interest in their subject and mostly stuck to the book. There were of course some bad apples too (the rediculously boring ones that taught straight from the book and/or seemed like they didn't even want to be a teacher).
There were only three in the entire course of my high school education that stood out as great teachers. Two of them completely threw out the book (and made jokes about it - humor is always a great addition to a classroom IMO) and the other only used it moderately. All three of them had an inspiring effect and made me actually want to learn about the subject and thankfully one was for AP US government so I actually learned to pay attention to what the asshats in our government are doing. Needless to say, I've retained most of the knowledge from those three classes while I've forgotten much of the other crap I 'learned' in school.
I do have to agree with you on the parent issue though, at least to an extent. Yes your average parent probably needs to put more effort into their child's education. However, I think schools too often expect parents to help their child with the deluge of homework and projects assigned to students. Personally I think it's a little unreasonable to expect parents to come home from work, make dinner, catch some news, AND do an hour or two of homework with their kids and still have a little downtime for themselves to keep from going insane. Of course this is impossible for the single parent working two jobs to support their children and then, on top of already suffering from limited interaction with their parent, the kids do poorly compared to their peers. This of course goes back to the teacher. The lower the ability of the teacher, the more likely they are to rely on the 'crutch' of homework and projects.
Ugh I'm sick of writing about this already... I'm just glad I'm out of that shitstorm. You could probably write a dozen dissertations on all the problems with the public schools. I just hope they are a lot better when I have children of my own. Or I might be one working an extra job to pay for the thousands of dollars in private tuition fees.
I agree but this is happening already. When I was in high school, a basic computer use/typing class was a required course for all students. Every student had a username (SS# with a 1 in front... don't even get me started on that) and a folder on the student drive where you were expected to keep all documents.
All well and good, but it was only later that we found out that our folders were regularly examined. On several occasions when there was a substitute teacher, the entire class would download and play Doom. Naturally, many stored the.exe in their folder so they wouldn't have to download it again next time. Weeks later, everyone with the Doom binary in their folder was given some sort of punishment (probably detention - I didn't get one:). Of course, at the beginning of the year we all had to sign terms of use papers... but what choice did we have?
The judge that wants to uphold the constitution and bill of rights?
That's the idea of course but I have serious doubts about that though when the Supreme Court says it's okay for the government to take away your property and give it to whoever pleases them - for the public good, of course.
To catch someone before they do something, you need to violate their freedom before they do it.
Where do we draw the line though? At what point do these violations of rights become wrong? Currently, they can only violate your privacy completely. What's next, detainment? "Well we're pretty sure this guy is a terrorist so let's hold him indefinetly while we investigate his entire life and interrogate him." "Oops turns out we were wrong but we're going to keep a wiretap on all your communications forever and regularly checkup on you, just to be sure."
Given that terrorists seem to be brainwashed or at least highly fanatical and with a goal of killing as many people or causing as much disruption as possible, I doubt they care much about committing a felony under US law.
The fact is that they probably would be using some sort of encryption which, IMHO, makes this wiretap idea rediculous. I'm no expert but wouldn't messages encoded with even medium-level encryption take longer than an average flight to decrypt? Meanwhile Akhmed ibn-Joe (suspected terrorist based on name only) who is not using encryption has his private emails to his wife/lover/grandma read by a dozen FBI agents... great.
Judges are a very serious concern related to the problem though. All the FBI has to do is say that the person they want a tap on is a strongly suspected terrorist. What judge wants to be the first one to deny such a request if it later turns out to be true and a wiretap could have prevented an attack?
All of my computers run Linux except for one Windows XP machine that I use for gaming. It being a gaming machine, I regularly push it to the limits with new hardware, drivers, and software and it has yet to 'bluescreen' on me. Same goes for the other XP and 2000 machines I had before I discovered Linux.
Call Windows a shitty platform all you want (and I would probably agree with you - I'm frustrated almost everyday by some idiotic 'feature' of Windows), but to say that the newer versions bluescreen all the time is just ignorant.
I've never understood that tendency myself but it is what happens more often than not. It's okay for people to see or participate in (in a game) the wholesale slaughter of people but if a breast is shown for even a brief moment, all hell breaks loose. Activist groups no one has ever heard of and droves of mortified parents come out from whatever rock they apparently live under. And show a penis, especially an erect penis, and you might as well kill yourself because you'll probably be charged with all sorts of sexual deviancy crimes and never see the light of day again.
But it's okay because it's all to protect the children. Since there is no way a teenager has ever seen these parts and no reason to ever understand sex until they're 30, we MUST stop these horrible sex shows!
Then what you are saying is the crime is based on intelligence. For instance. A hacker SMART enough to break in a to wireless network is a criminal, but the dumb hacker who only knows how to break in to a unsecured network is not a criminal because, hey, the network was wide open.
I don't think intelligence or skill has anything to do with it at all. If the network is completely unsecured, I don't see how it is "hacking" or "breaking in" to connect to it. It could possibly be entering without permission, but that's where the DHCP server comes in.
Think of it like this: You're taking a walk through your neighborhood. As you walk by a neighbor's house, you notice the front door is open and inside you can see a party going on. You walk up to the door and ask the host (the DHCP server) if you can join in the fun as well. The host says "Sure! Here's your nametag, and there are food and drinks out back!" Have you committed any crime here? I don't think so. After all, if you were not welcome, the host was free to say "No, this is a private party. I left the door open because the air conditioner is broken."
Now if the door was shut and locked and you saw the party by peeking through a window and proceeded to join the party by breaking the window or busting down the door, then you would be committing a crime.
If I may extend your point, any crime at all is the fault of the victim who is not prepared.
The person doing the actual crime is not guilty because the victim was not ready.
I don't think that is what the original poster was saying but it is true to a limited extent. In the case of the host locking his door, he was prepared so me entering at all is clearly a crime. If the host is not prepared and has his door open and I simply ask if I can enter, it is not.
Oddly enough, unless I'm mistaken, it was the same environmental wackies (the idiot kind not the ones that actually have something insightful to say) that scared everyone away from nuclear power.
I think their entire protest was about Teflon. If you look at their brouchure thing all it talks about is Teflon... I don't think it even mentions nano-tech!
These people are either morons (very likely), trying to stir up fear and attention with scary buzzwords like "nanotechnology", or both (even more likely).
I admit I mostly only scanned over the article, but it seems like the protest was more about Teflon. Granted it's being used on a nano scale but isn't this just hijacking fears about nanotechnology to make an environmental statement about a chemical?
I find it much to hard to tab around and use the arrows keys while indulging. The easy one-handed use of a mouse allows for a more efficient erotic experience:)
But the market says they need a product out in three months and not six. So you're given an insane schedule.
If you had RTFA, you would have seen: "In about two months, the cumulative productivity loss has declined to the point where the project would actually be farther ahead if you'd just stuck to 40-hour weeks all along." So actually, not only is it costing them more, they might have the product in two months instead of three if they didn't force crunch mode.
Well, GNU/Linux is, has been and (hopefully) always will be a hacker's OS. And I don't want it any other way.
Why? Sounds like you're an immature 14 year old who doesn't want to lose his status as a "l33t linux d00d."
And I don't want it any other way. At the same time, ther is a secure, Unix-like, user-friendly alternative and it's called MacOS. I really have no idea why people are trying to push GNU/Linux on the users' desktops. It just doesn't make sense to me.
That whooshing sound was a major point of F/OSS going right over your head. You're right people could use MacOS instead, but the point is that people should be able to choose whatever OS they want without worrying about being locked in by their current OS.
You're the kind of person that gives the F/OSS movement a bad name. You put out the notion that Linux is the "hacker's OS" in hopes of scaring away the ignorant masses. As it has been mentioned previously in this topic, give people some credit and they may surprise you.
Take my situation as an example. I'm the only person in my family, extended or otherwise, that is knowledgeable about computers. And yet, my great-grandparents, ages 89 and 93, were able to purchase a computer, configure it, and send email to me WITHOUT consulting me at all - they only received minor help from my grandmother who did the same. Sure it wasn't easy but they put some effort into it and learned what they needed to know. If they can do that at their age, there's no reason the average person can't do the same to learn the "hacker's OS." And really, Linux isn't that much harder than Windows, it's just different so you have to learn something new. The difference is even smaller if you go with a distribution like Red Hat that operates similarly to Windows.
To be sure, there will always be the more "hardcore" distributions of Linux like Gentoo (my personal favorite) that you can use to keep your "l33t" status. There's simply no reason that everyone can't enjoy the benefits of using F/OSS software.
What does using a method to get around being forced to have a CD in the drive have to do with piracy? If I buy a game and it does not need to access the disc other than for installation, why the fuck should I have to have the CD in the drive to play?
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100 million bird deaths from buildings each year? I'm not saying you're wrong since I have no information on the statistics myself, but that seems like a rediculously high number.
I feel sorry for the poor saps that have to clean up the mess made by all those birds splattering all over buildings though.
I know they are being safe but all this back and forth ("we are launching! - we are not launching!") is looking really bad from the public's point of view. And the problem then is that it is the public's tax money that is being spent for such things.
Very true. It doesn't help that most people don't seem to care about science/exploring space/pushing the limits of technology/etc. Even though I wasn't sure how much we would really learn by sending the rovers to Mars, when I first heard about the plan my first thought was "Wow, how fucking cool is that?" But when I mentioned it to some other people, including several of my friends, a common reaction was disapproval and some rambling about the homeless or something.
It's a shame but as long as people have their SUVs and TV, they don't care about the future of science and technology. So while the back and forth thing is looking bad, any kind of problem during the actual mission (even if it didn't result in the deaths of the crew) would probably just about kill NASA's space program.
Erm that was supposed to be attached to the flamebait modded post... I guess an AC had pointed it out already and I accidentally clicked on his post or something.
Maybe I'm missing something but... how the hell is this flamebait?
I think you misunderstand. The poster I originally replied to stated that democracy is better than capitalism. I pointed out the fact that you can't really make such a comparison since they are two (mostly) distinct concepts - one being a form of governemnt, the other an economic system.
As far as your A->B comment I'm assuming you mean Capitalism leads to removal of democracy which leads to something worse and therefore, capitalism leads to something worse. Personally I find that logic a bit speculative. I could make a similar statement about phone calls. Phone calls can be made to terrorists which may lead to a terrorist attack and therefore, phone calls lead to terrorism.
More importantly, I think you are confusing capitalism with corporatism (probably closer to what we have in the US). I say that because you seemed to be concerned mostly with the actions of corporations (which of course are protected by the legislature in a corporatist state).
"Kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out" - T-Shirt at the Republican National Convention
...Holy shit. Is that real?! I'm glad I'm not a Republican or a Democrat... they're all fucking psychos.
I'm having a difficult time parsing your post to understand what you are talking about but I just thought I'd point out that democracy is a form of government. Capitalism is an economic system. So I'm not sure what you meant by the last half of your post but democracy and capitalism go quite well together.
As someone who is still in college and thus was in high school only a few years ago, I would have to say that you probably have not been in the public school system in quite some time. The teachers ARE indeed a real problem. I was fortunate enough to live in one of the most affluent counties in my state and thus had access to many extracurricular resources and the like but it seems like teachers must be the same everywhere. Most of the ones I had were average. They had a mild interest in their subject and mostly stuck to the book. There were of course some bad apples too (the rediculously boring ones that taught straight from the book and/or seemed like they didn't even want to be a teacher).
There were only three in the entire course of my high school education that stood out as great teachers. Two of them completely threw out the book (and made jokes about it - humor is always a great addition to a classroom IMO) and the other only used it moderately. All three of them had an inspiring effect and made me actually want to learn about the subject and thankfully one was for AP US government so I actually learned to pay attention to what the asshats in our government are doing. Needless to say, I've retained most of the knowledge from those three classes while I've forgotten much of the other crap I 'learned' in school.
I do have to agree with you on the parent issue though, at least to an extent. Yes your average parent probably needs to put more effort into their child's education. However, I think schools too often expect parents to help their child with the deluge of homework and projects assigned to students. Personally I think it's a little unreasonable to expect parents to come home from work, make dinner, catch some news, AND do an hour or two of homework with their kids and still have a little downtime for themselves to keep from going insane. Of course this is impossible for the single parent working two jobs to support their children and then, on top of already suffering from limited interaction with their parent, the kids do poorly compared to their peers. This of course goes back to the teacher. The lower the ability of the teacher, the more likely they are to rely on the 'crutch' of homework and projects.
Ugh I'm sick of writing about this already... I'm just glad I'm out of that shitstorm. You could probably write a dozen dissertations on all the problems with the public schools. I just hope they are a lot better when I have children of my own. Or I might be one working an extra job to pay for the thousands of dollars in private tuition fees.
I agree but this is happening already. When I was in high school, a basic computer use/typing class was a required course for all students. Every student had a username (SS# with a 1 in front... don't even get me started on that) and a folder on the student drive where you were expected to keep all documents.
.exe in their folder so they wouldn't have to download it again next time. Weeks later, everyone with the Doom binary in their folder was given some sort of punishment (probably detention - I didn't get one :). Of course, at the beginning of the year we all had to sign terms of use papers... but what choice did we have?
All well and good, but it was only later that we found out that our folders were regularly examined. On several occasions when there was a substitute teacher, the entire class would download and play Doom. Naturally, many stored the
The judge that wants to uphold the constitution and bill of rights?
That's the idea of course but I have serious doubts about that though when the Supreme Court says it's okay for the government to take away your property and give it to whoever pleases them - for the public good, of course.
To catch someone before they do something, you need to violate their freedom before they do it.
Where do we draw the line though? At what point do these violations of rights become wrong? Currently, they can only violate your privacy completely. What's next, detainment? "Well we're pretty sure this guy is a terrorist so let's hold him indefinetly while we investigate his entire life and interrogate him." "Oops turns out we were wrong but we're going to keep a wiretap on all your communications forever and regularly checkup on you, just to be sure."
Given that terrorists seem to be brainwashed or at least highly fanatical and with a goal of killing as many people or causing as much disruption as possible, I doubt they care much about committing a felony under US law.
The fact is that they probably would be using some sort of encryption which, IMHO, makes this wiretap idea rediculous. I'm no expert but wouldn't messages encoded with even medium-level encryption take longer than an average flight to decrypt? Meanwhile Akhmed ibn-Joe (suspected terrorist based on name only) who is not using encryption has his private emails to his wife/lover/grandma read by a dozen FBI agents... great.
Judges are a very serious concern related to the problem though. All the FBI has to do is say that the person they want a tap on is a strongly suspected terrorist. What judge wants to be the first one to deny such a request if it later turns out to be true and a wiretap could have prevented an attack?
All of my computers run Linux except for one Windows XP machine that I use for gaming. It being a gaming machine, I regularly push it to the limits with new hardware, drivers, and software and it has yet to 'bluescreen' on me. Same goes for the other XP and 2000 machines I had before I discovered Linux.
Call Windows a shitty platform all you want (and I would probably agree with you - I'm frustrated almost everyday by some idiotic 'feature' of Windows), but to say that the newer versions bluescreen all the time is just ignorant.
I've never understood that tendency myself but it is what happens more often than not. It's okay for people to see or participate in (in a game) the wholesale slaughter of people but if a breast is shown for even a brief moment, all hell breaks loose. Activist groups no one has ever heard of and droves of mortified parents come out from whatever rock they apparently live under. And show a penis, especially an erect penis, and you might as well kill yourself because you'll probably be charged with all sorts of sexual deviancy crimes and never see the light of day again.
But it's okay because it's all to protect the children. Since there is no way a teenager has ever seen these parts and no reason to ever understand sex until they're 30, we MUST stop these horrible sex shows!
Then what you are saying is the crime is based on intelligence. For instance. A hacker SMART enough to break in a to wireless network is a criminal, but the dumb hacker who only knows how to break in to a unsecured network is not a criminal because, hey, the network was wide open.
I don't think intelligence or skill has anything to do with it at all. If the network is completely unsecured, I don't see how it is "hacking" or "breaking in" to connect to it. It could possibly be entering without permission, but that's where the DHCP server comes in.
Think of it like this: You're taking a walk through your neighborhood. As you walk by a neighbor's house, you notice the front door is open and inside you can see a party going on. You walk up to the door and ask the host (the DHCP server) if you can join in the fun as well. The host says "Sure! Here's your nametag, and there are food and drinks out back!" Have you committed any crime here? I don't think so. After all, if you were not welcome, the host was free to say "No, this is a private party. I left the door open because the air conditioner is broken."
Now if the door was shut and locked and you saw the party by peeking through a window and proceeded to join the party by breaking the window or busting down the door, then you would be committing a crime.
If I may extend your point, any crime at all is the fault of the victim who is not prepared. The person doing the actual crime is not guilty because the victim was not ready.
I don't think that is what the original poster was saying but it is true to a limited extent. In the case of the host locking his door, he was prepared so me entering at all is clearly a crime. If the host is not prepared and has his door open and I simply ask if I can enter, it is not.
Oddly enough, unless I'm mistaken, it was the same environmental wackies (the idiot kind not the ones that actually have something insightful to say) that scared everyone away from nuclear power.
I think their entire protest was about Teflon. If you look at their brouchure thing all it talks about is Teflon... I don't think it even mentions nano-tech!
These people are either morons (very likely), trying to stir up fear and attention with scary buzzwords like "nanotechnology", or both (even more likely).
I admit I mostly only scanned over the article, but it seems like the protest was more about Teflon. Granted it's being used on a nano scale but isn't this just hijacking fears about nanotechnology to make an environmental statement about a chemical?
... won't someone think of the porn?
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But the market says they need a product out in three months and not six. So you're given an insane schedule.
If you had RTFA, you would have seen: "In about two months, the cumulative productivity loss has declined to the point where the project would actually be farther ahead if you'd just stuck to 40-hour weeks all along." So actually, not only is it costing them more, they might have the product in two months instead of three if they didn't force crunch mode.
Well, GNU/Linux is, has been and (hopefully) always will be a hacker's OS. And I don't want it any other way.
Why? Sounds like you're an immature 14 year old who doesn't want to lose his status as a "l33t linux d00d."
And I don't want it any other way. At the same time, ther is a secure, Unix-like, user-friendly alternative and it's called MacOS. I really have no idea why people are trying to push GNU/Linux on the users' desktops. It just doesn't make sense to me.
That whooshing sound was a major point of F/OSS going right over your head. You're right people could use MacOS instead, but the point is that people should be able to choose whatever OS they want without worrying about being locked in by their current OS.
You're the kind of person that gives the F/OSS movement a bad name. You put out the notion that Linux is the "hacker's OS" in hopes of scaring away the ignorant masses. As it has been mentioned previously in this topic, give people some credit and they may surprise you.
Take my situation as an example. I'm the only person in my family, extended or otherwise, that is knowledgeable about computers. And yet, my great-grandparents, ages 89 and 93, were able to purchase a computer, configure it, and send email to me WITHOUT consulting me at all - they only received minor help from my grandmother who did the same. Sure it wasn't easy but they put some effort into it and learned what they needed to know. If they can do that at their age, there's no reason the average person can't do the same to learn the "hacker's OS." And really, Linux isn't that much harder than Windows, it's just different so you have to learn something new. The difference is even smaller if you go with a distribution like Red Hat that operates similarly to Windows.
To be sure, there will always be the more "hardcore" distributions of Linux like Gentoo (my personal favorite) that you can use to keep your "l33t" status. There's simply no reason that everyone can't enjoy the benefits of using F/OSS software.
What does using a method to get around being forced to have a CD in the drive have to do with piracy? If I buy a game and it does not need to access the disc other than for installation, why the fuck should I have to have the CD in the drive to play?
Capitalistic companies might be even more offended by their commercial TLD of .com.ie