And then again, a teacher worth his salt would have asked the boy after class what he meant when he wrote it. Just to verify what was actually going on, you know. Instead of sending the police to raid their house...
What I can't understand is, giving the number of times Trump-controlled businesses have gone bankrupt and screwed their creditors, why does anyone still lend him money? Other than lucrative bribes, I can't think of any logical reason.
Classic case of gambler's fallacy. They all think this time it will work out for the best.
I live in the Netherlands, and we've had easy access to cannabis for a long time now. When I studied, a lot of roommates smoked it sometimes, and the heavy users had a few plants in their room. About a quarter of the teenagers have used it incidentally, the rest doesn't really bother with it.
With the experience we have locally we have also seen some issues. The issues are mainly psychological issues - IQ drops haven't been seen but motivation does tend to suffer from long term use. There is a very real link with schizophrenic disorders but it's unknown if people who have the genetic predisposition smoke cannabis because of that, or vice versa - in any case, if you have schizophrenic disorders in the family it is very unwise to smoke cannabis long term, although short term and incidental use may be safe.
Also, an acute psychosis brought on by too much cannabis is a well-known issue and cause of death for young tourists in Amsterdam as well. Usually we have a few casualties each summer because people in a psychosis sometimes think they can fly.
For the majority of incidental users, cannabis is MUCH safer than alcohol. However, there is a minority with genetic vulnerability to cannabis that should not use it at all, and long term use of cannabis (2+ years) is probably unhealthy for a much larger group - and I'm ignoring the wider and well-known effects of smoking here, since you could also drink it (as thee) or eat it (in cake).
I'm not against recreative drug use. It should be decriminalized asap. But it's not as harmless as some people make it out to be, even if it doesn't do nearly as much damage as alcohol or cigarettes.
I agree they're correlated. But poverty has such a huge impact on your chance to actually learn something (and circumstances in poor areas in the USA are even harder than elsewhere in the OECD) that it's hard to get the causation right.
the last thing we want is a town full of angry poor people
Yes, and the lead causes both the poverty and the anger.
If low IQ and poverty were related, most of Hollywood's rich and famous would be begging in the streets. It doesn't help to get out of poverty if you have a low IQ, but I guess that the local schools and lack of employment for the parents have a much bigger impact in terms of money.
Another nail in the coffin of privacy, but a great boost to aid the move in the EU to ban the transfer of data to US companies outright. Since privacy legislation is much more stringent in the EU, that should help a sizeable portion of the Earth's inhabitants. And as a bonus it will reduce the unassailable positions now occupied by Google, Amazon etc. and stimulate EU companies to create alternatives. As each ones home market is too small to dominate the rest, that should give us a bit more choice.
Since my kid has started playing a lot of games because of "Let's play" youtube videos (mostly from Pewdiepie but also a lot of others nowadays), this is like Nintendo taking a revolver, filling 5 out of 6 chambers with live ammo, and saying "let's see what happens!".
If I had shares, I'd sell them fast. There isn't going to be much value left in them a few years from now.
They could have phoned him, explained he needed to ask permission and told him he'd get it if he just applied nicely (and maybe drop the ticket fee). That would have served the same purpose of defending their IP.
But nooo... they had to litigate. They're dicks. And so is anyone who defends this as something that's right and proper.
While what you say is quite nice in the abstract, the nurture aspect is very strong in this concrete case.
If kids go hungry, if shots are fired next door each day, if they have to travel hours to get to a school that can only hire teachers that have failed to get jobs elsewhere, then "nature" doesn't even have a chance of entering the door, it's all nurture. You have to be extremely motivated and disciplined in such an environment to even stand a chance of gaining a normal education, let alone enroll in a gifted program.
Another point I'd like to make is that the tests aren't all that capable of predicting success.
In The Netherlands, the disparity in living conditions is much lower - our "slums" are suburbs compared to a lot of other countries. The tests correlate much better with real ability - and even there we see a rather unnerving percentage of kids where the tests actually go off by a wide margin, so much so that it is now the law (new since last year) that the advice from the kids teachers is the one that has to be followed, and tests can only cause a lower advice to be changed to a higher one, not a high advice to be lowered. The main reason for this was that the teachers advice was correlating much better with academic success than the IQ tests.
If we ignore the datamining and forced updates, which are two things that most people are actually fine to put up with, Windows 10 is pretty awesome OS.
Smooth, fast, runs all the apps, has premium drivers.
Should have been modded "Insightful +5".
The forced updates will mean that if MS fucks up, they pull the plug on the majority of the world's computing infrastructure. Teehee, guess how thorough those patches will be tested? Pretty thorough is my guess. And since everyone has the same environment, barring drivers and antivirus software, this should take less effort than it used to. So, I don't think more than 1% of the population will care. This could change when MS actually does kill off everyone's installation, but I'm prepared to wait and see on this one.
For most people continuous updates will be a huge improvement because botnets will have a smaller attack surface. If they *do* find a vulnerability it will affect everyone, but it will also very likely be patched rapidly and rolled out right away. Security researchers will find their work easier too: they just have to deal with one version of the OS, and not with all of the subversions.
The datamining is my biggest issue, but I'll just have to find a way to patch the ethernet driver to drop selected packets, if the antivirus tools won't give me an option to block the telemetry from phoning home. I guess we'll see "phoneblockers" popping up this year, or next year at the latest.
Dude, don't drink *and* do drugs *and* post at the same time. You can drink and do drugs, or you can do drugs and post, but combining them gets messy very fast, as your post illustrates in lurid detail.
I'll be happy if the story is at least consistent with itself for the duration of the movie. That was what tripped up Prometheus the most. I can forgive a lot in the name of "suspension of disbelief", but not the inane plot, tepid writing and insane actions of apparent morons picked up at a random streetcorner to help out on a billion-dollar costing expedition.
It's one of the most powerful forces which affects your financial security.
More like one of the most overrated sops to keep people quiet: "if you just save your money and work hard, later you will get a lot of money!".
Especially now we have an interest rate at nearly zero percent and inflation higher than that, "compound interest" is just an easy way to support those poor starving bankers.
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And then again, a teacher worth his salt would have asked the boy after class what he meant when he wrote it. Just to verify what was actually going on, you know. Instead of sending the police to raid their house...
This is almost a case of "swatting", by accident.
What I can't understand is, giving the number of times Trump-controlled businesses have gone bankrupt and screwed their creditors, why does anyone still lend him money? Other than lucrative bribes, I can't think of any logical reason.
Classic case of gambler's fallacy. They all think this time it will work out for the best.
I live in the Netherlands, and we've had easy access to cannabis for a long time now. When I studied, a lot of roommates smoked it sometimes, and the heavy users had a few plants in their room. About a quarter of the teenagers have used it incidentally, the rest doesn't really bother with it.
With the experience we have locally we have also seen some issues. The issues are mainly psychological issues - IQ drops haven't been seen but motivation does tend to suffer from long term use. There is a very real link with schizophrenic disorders but it's unknown if people who have the genetic predisposition smoke cannabis because of that, or vice versa - in any case, if you have schizophrenic disorders in the family it is very unwise to smoke cannabis long term, although short term and incidental use may be safe.
Also, an acute psychosis brought on by too much cannabis is a well-known issue and cause of death for young tourists in Amsterdam as well. Usually we have a few casualties each summer because people in a psychosis sometimes think they can fly.
For the majority of incidental users, cannabis is MUCH safer than alcohol. However, there is a minority with genetic vulnerability to cannabis that should not use it at all, and long term use of cannabis (2+ years) is probably unhealthy for a much larger group - and I'm ignoring the wider and well-known effects of smoking here, since you could also drink it (as thee) or eat it (in cake).
I'm not against recreative drug use. It should be decriminalized asap. But it's not as harmless as some people make it out to be, even if it doesn't do nearly as much damage as alcohol or cigarettes.
Since the kids weren't tested, you have a valid point that is unfortunately unrelated to the article and topic in question.
So, yeah, I wouldn't worry about those commies ... if there are any left.
Nice one :)
Since nobody listens to AM radio anyway, who would complain? And more important, why would anyone stop an opponent from wasting money?
Since you don't bother to register, you don't get to vote it down either.
I agree they're correlated. But poverty has such a huge impact on your chance to actually learn something (and circumstances in poor areas in the USA are even harder than elsewhere in the OECD) that it's hard to get the causation right.
the last thing we want is a town full of angry poor people
Yes, and the lead causes both the poverty and the anger.
If low IQ and poverty were related, most of Hollywood's rich and famous would be begging in the streets. It doesn't help to get out of poverty if you have a low IQ, but I guess that the local schools and lack of employment for the parents have a much bigger impact in terms of money.
I would *snort* at this, but my gasmask is in the way.
Session cookies are a completely different subject. Don't confuse the issue.
Another nail in the coffin of privacy, but a great boost to aid the move in the EU to ban the transfer of data to US companies outright. Since privacy legislation is much more stringent in the EU, that should help a sizeable portion of the Earth's inhabitants. And as a bonus it will reduce the unassailable positions now occupied by Google, Amazon etc. and stimulate EU companies to create alternatives. As each ones home market is too small to dominate the rest, that should give us a bit more choice.
So true! I too, slam the door in the face of my co-workers. It teaches them to keep up with me and walk faster.
Women expressing their sexuality make me uncomfortable
maybe I should claim victim-hood status and gain women privilege. LOL.
...these whore ...
...man up; you should have told that bitch to fuck off.
I guess you nicely illustrate the issue at hand.
Since my kid has started playing a lot of games because of "Let's play" youtube videos (mostly from Pewdiepie but also a lot of others nowadays), this is like Nintendo taking a revolver, filling 5 out of 6 chambers with live ammo, and saying "let's see what happens!".
If I had shares, I'd sell them fast. There isn't going to be much value left in them a few years from now.
In Brittain, "telling the truth" is not an absolute defense in a defamation lawsuit. In the USA, it is.
They could have phoned him, explained he needed to ask permission and told him he'd get it if he just applied nicely (and maybe drop the ticket fee). That would have served the same purpose of defending their IP.
But nooo... they had to litigate. They're dicks. And so is anyone who defends this as something that's right and proper.
True. If we didn't fine people who put up pokemon posters, we'd rapidly slide into anarchy!
While what you say is quite nice in the abstract, the nurture aspect is very strong in this concrete case.
If kids go hungry, if shots are fired next door each day, if they have to travel hours to get to a school that can only hire teachers that have failed to get jobs elsewhere, then "nature" doesn't even have a chance of entering the door, it's all nurture. You have to be extremely motivated and disciplined in such an environment to even stand a chance of gaining a normal education, let alone enroll in a gifted program.
Another point I'd like to make is that the tests aren't all that capable of predicting success.
In The Netherlands, the disparity in living conditions is much lower - our "slums" are suburbs compared to a lot of other countries. The tests correlate much better with real ability - and even there we see a rather unnerving percentage of kids where the tests actually go off by a wide margin, so much so that it is now the law (new since last year) that the advice from the kids teachers is the one that has to be followed, and tests can only cause a lower advice to be changed to a higher one, not a high advice to be lowered. The main reason for this was that the teachers advice was correlating much better with academic success than the IQ tests.
If we ignore the datamining and forced updates, which are two things that most people are actually fine to put up with, Windows 10 is pretty awesome OS.
Smooth, fast, runs all the apps, has premium drivers.
Should have been modded "Insightful +5".
The forced updates will mean that if MS fucks up, they pull the plug on the majority of the world's computing infrastructure. Teehee, guess how thorough those patches will be tested? Pretty thorough is my guess. And since everyone has the same environment, barring drivers and antivirus software, this should take less effort than it used to. So, I don't think more than 1% of the population will care. This could change when MS actually does kill off everyone's installation, but I'm prepared to wait and see on this one.
For most people continuous updates will be a huge improvement because botnets will have a smaller attack surface. If they *do* find a vulnerability it will affect everyone, but it will also very likely be patched rapidly and rolled out right away. Security researchers will find their work easier too: they just have to deal with one version of the OS, and not with all of the subversions.
The datamining is my biggest issue, but I'll just have to find a way to patch the ethernet driver to drop selected packets, if the antivirus tools won't give me an option to block the telemetry from phoning home. I guess we'll see "phoneblockers" popping up this year, or next year at the latest.
Dude, don't drink *and* do drugs *and* post at the same time. You can drink and do drugs, or you can do drugs and post, but combining them gets messy very fast, as your post illustrates in lurid detail.
I'll be happy if the story is at least consistent with itself for the duration of the movie. That was what tripped up Prometheus the most. I can forgive a lot in the name of "suspension of disbelief", but not the inane plot, tepid writing and insane actions of apparent morons picked up at a random streetcorner to help out on a billion-dollar costing expedition.
Lesson to be learned...if you're going to steal, steal a LOT.
Or at least enough to pay off the judge and the lawyers. Or flee the country, like McAfee.
It's one of the most powerful forces which affects your financial security.
More like one of the most overrated sops to keep people quiet: "if you just save your money and work hard, later you will get a lot of money!".
Especially now we have an interest rate at nearly zero percent and inflation higher than that, "compound interest" is just an easy way to support those poor starving bankers.
Helpful comments, I'm sure.
Thank you for showing everyone why having computer camps for girls only is a good idea.