And you are an ideologial moron who read something into my post that wasn't there.
You are also yet another dumbass kid who tosses the word "fascist" around with NO comprehension of what it really means, and how it insults the endless millions of victims of History's *real* fascists.
Some of the folks in these reports would have been glad to see tazers instead of military grade weapons and men in body armor telling a young handcuffed women on the floor they were going to put a bullet in her head.
He got hostile with the cops. He's also a well known attention seeker.
Actually, given the latter, I do wish he *hadn't* been tazed because now the little douchebag will get all the attention he sought, and I'll have to see his dumb puss if I so much as get near a newscast. Guys like him... he probably had an orgasm when the jolt hit him because he knew he had his media ticket.
Well, I'm coming from an engineering perspective. Half (sometimes more) of my old college notebooks are diagrams. Some pages are one big diagram. Although I found it useful even in general ed classes to create notes in flow charts and other arrangements that show underlying relationships.
How funny/sad is that? No "did he have a medical condition?", no "was there evidence of foul play", no "is there an autopsy scheduled", just "what game was he playing?"
There's increasing numbers of studies that show just this now that the computers have been in place for a while. Computers can't fix the fundamental problems with the educational system. The "solutions" used to be throw more money at it!" That didn't work either as anyone in California can tell you. Now it's "Throw more computers at it!" or even "Throw more computers AND more money at it!"
Those tenured old bores who droned on in endless lecture are now (mostly) reading PowerPoing presentations bullet-by-bullet.
Ha! Same thing here in the corporate engineering world! I put my diagrams and text on separate slides and talk to the diagram. Seems to keep the audience awake. And I use a good old WOODEN pointer. None of that prissy LED pointer crap here.:) It's also useful to chuck like a spear at people carrying on their own meetings in the back, but I don't get much of that because I've become known for my accuracy.
Nothing beats note taking on paper with one of those four color pens, which seem to be increasingly hard to find, sadly.
Typing it all up into the computer later and adding diagrams (scanned or reconstructed in a drawing program) helps cement the info into your little neurons.
Not everything has to be made high tech, and in some cases the high tech "solution" doesn't really solve anything and can cause more problems. *cough*voting*cough*
Didn't they predict internet enabled refrigerators and coffee makers by now?
Some try to paint it as a generational thing, but, no. It's just a case of some processes and technologies having matured to the point where there's really nothing wrong with them, and any gains to be had by throwing a computer at it are diminishing at best.
Anyway, that's what labs are for. For any high tech/scientific degree, that's where the real learning happens.
I love me my technology, but nothing beats a simple whiteboard for on the fly discussion and brainstorming. It's cheap and it works and never bluescreens unless the blue marker explodes for some inadequately explored reason.
Not EVERYTHING has to be made shiny and high tech. Voting is a good example.
That's why we have whiteboards with digitizers all over the super doubleplus hightech place where I work.
The projectors and other media are strictly for prepared presentations.
And it's also one of the most liberal of the many DRM schemes out there. The few things I have bought from iTunes were easily unDRMed even without cracking anything or using special software. This might account partly for the fact that they are the largest. With the new lossless compression it's even better. And without that DRM, they wouldn't be able to sell anything. Blaming Apple is like blaming the supermarket for the bag of salad with the E. coli in it.
1. Because it's easier to hate your own country and countrymen due to their immediate proximity.
2. Iranian laws don't affect American rights,. People are going to focus on the laws that affect them directly.
Also, you can't use Slashdot as a good gauge. The Gaussian bulk of people here are narcissistic technogeeks who desperately and continually seek a reason to feel superior. You don't get that same self righteous buzz criticizing people in another hemisphere as you get calling your fellow citizens idiots because they bought a Tivo instead of investing thirty-twelveteen hours setting up MythTV.
I just don't get why I'm supposed to care about the internal problems of every nation on Earth.
But then people will do "man on the street" surveys and declare "Americans is stoopid" because an insurance claims adjuster in Kansas City doesn't know that the current Vice President of Burundi is Martin Nduwimana. Don't you see? All this important and scientifically precise research must be done to paint the one of the most diverse citizenries on the planet as a pack of groupthink doubleminus troglodytes. Shame on you! You will be banned from the collective and denied your universal health care!
How long would it take to charge with indoor light, or even reflected sunlight? The solar batteries I've seen require extended periods in direct sun.
I've been considering a solar charger for all my C/AA/AAA battery powered home devices (remotes, cordless phones, clocks, etc.). Maybe a centralized solution like that might be better. Then you can just put a small panel up on the roof or a south facing wall or something.
The problem there with cell phones (and watches for that matter) is the utter lack of battery standardization. I never understood why the world needs 900 types of watch battery, many of which can't even be distinguished visually.
I'm sorry, but where did I say "take massive, unsafe of ibuprofen?" 500 mg is *two* gelcaps.
Cite me one study where an occasional, regular dose of Advil for a hangover seriously hurts anyone more than the drunkeness that instigated its use.
NSAIDs also destroy the lining of the intestines, causing leaky gut syndrome. Which can lead to allergies, arthritis, cancer, and a lot of other bad things.
But drinking yourself into oblivion is OK?
You're like the woman I saw on the news complaining about a cell phone tower near her kid's school, and when the camera turns to another parent (but you could still see her), she lights up a cigarette.
If I have a hangover I'll take a Tylenol or Aspirin. Why that works? Nobody knows either.
Damaged cells use enzymes called cyclooxygenase to generate chemicals called prostaglandins. The prostaglandins cause your nerve endings to say "Hey! This hurts!" Aspirin prevents the production of prostaglandins.
Oh, and try my hangover cure: a huge glass of orange juice and 500 mg of ibuprofin, preferably gelcaps.
I've actually tried now and then, but politics and ideology bore me so completely I wander into something like pondering about where the character Angel on Dexter gets those awesome hats.
I suppose I could start and anti-politics blog. I could take apart various other political blogs and show where they wander between true critical thinking and ideological zerothink. That might be fun.
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Try new "Bombs Away!" anti-fumblementalist aerosol.
Just spray in the air and terrorists fade away like bad gas.
New, from Ryan Industries.
I for one would be more than happy to give up my Internet connexion so Iraqis/Haitians/everyone else can have some food on their table.
So what's stopping you? Go ahead. Just don;t try to cram it down my throat.
Are any candidates actually addressing Human Needs?
Are you?
but could the psychological trauma of the arrest cause latent anger, "acting out", etc???
You could just as easily say that innocent people who got arrested were probably hanging around with the wrong crowd and were heading that way anyway.
You spend a big chunk of your life on hold. That's the basic frustration of the job.
I'd get paid for doing almost nothing? What's the downside again?
You are a sick, fascist pig.
And you are an ideologial moron who read something into my post that wasn't there.
You are also yet another dumbass kid who tosses the word "fascist" around with NO comprehension of what it really means, and how it insults the endless millions of victims of History's *real* fascists.
OK, I'm done with you.
...that I'm not the lead designer on that game.
There would be a 10 minutes hidden scene where the Tom Jackson character is repeatedly raped by an enormous number of large farm animals.
The he'd be forced into oral copulation with filthy homeless guys who have genital sores as yet unidentified by science.
And it would just go downhill from there.
Finally, Dexter would show up and end Tom's pain.
The fact you could possible agree with him being electrocuted is sick.
What part of "I do wish he *hadn't* been tazed" did you miss?
These were fascist pigs who didn't follow procedure at all. I hope they get shot.
Can you even grasp the irony of that?
You worry about cops with tazers?
You should be concerned about the continuing paramilitarization of the police as part of the War On Drugs.
http://reason.com/topics/hitandrun/226.html#listing
Some of the folks in these reports would have been glad to see tazers instead of military grade weapons and men in body armor telling a young handcuffed women on the floor they were going to put a bullet in her head.
He got hostile with the cops. He's also a well known attention seeker.
Actually, given the latter, I do wish he *hadn't* been tazed because now the little douchebag will get all the attention he sought, and I'll have to see his dumb puss if I so much as get near a newscast. Guys like him... he probably had an orgasm when the jolt hit him because he knew he had his media ticket.
This country has gone quite insane, I'm sure.
Oh, lighten up. It's Christmas.
Well, I'm coming from an engineering perspective. Half (sometimes more) of my old college notebooks are diagrams. Some pages are one big diagram. Although I found it useful even in general ed classes to create notes in flow charts and other arrangements that show underlying relationships.
How funny/sad is that? No "did he have a medical condition?", no "was there evidence of foul play", no "is there an autopsy scheduled", just "what game was he playing?"
How many metric tons did he weigh?
it hasn't really made a big difference.
:) It's also useful to chuck like a spear at people carrying on their own meetings in the back, but I don't get much of that because I've become known for my accuracy.
There's increasing numbers of studies that show just this now that the computers have been in place for a while. Computers can't fix the fundamental problems with the educational system. The "solutions" used to be throw more money at it!" That didn't work either as anyone in California can tell you. Now it's "Throw more computers at it!" or even "Throw more computers AND more money at it!"
Those tenured old bores who droned on in endless lecture are now (mostly) reading PowerPoing presentations bullet-by-bullet.
Ha! Same thing here in the corporate engineering world! I put my diagrams and text on separate slides and talk to the diagram. Seems to keep the audience awake. And I use a good old WOODEN pointer. None of that prissy LED pointer crap here.
Nothing beats note taking on paper with one of those four color pens, which seem to be increasingly hard to find, sadly.
Typing it all up into the computer later and adding diagrams (scanned or reconstructed in a drawing program) helps cement the info into your little neurons.
Not everything has to be made high tech, and in some cases the high tech "solution" doesn't really solve anything and can cause more problems. *cough*voting*cough*
Didn't they predict internet enabled refrigerators and coffee makers by now?
Some try to paint it as a generational thing, but, no. It's just a case of some processes and technologies having matured to the point where there's really nothing wrong with them, and any gains to be had by throwing a computer at it are diminishing at best.
Anyway, that's what labs are for. For any high tech/scientific degree, that's where the real learning happens.
I love me my technology, but nothing beats a simple whiteboard for on the fly discussion and brainstorming. It's cheap and it works and never bluescreens unless the blue marker explodes for some inadequately explored reason.
Not EVERYTHING has to be made shiny and high tech. Voting is a good example.
That's why we have whiteboards with digitizers all over the super doubleplus hightech place where I work.
The projectors and other media are strictly for prepared presentations.
If ringtones are not derivative works then why do we have to pay for them anyway?
Because the marketplace is willing to.
And it's also one of the most liberal of the many DRM schemes out there. The few things I have bought from iTunes were easily unDRMed even without cracking anything or using special software. This might account partly for the fact that they are the largest. With the new lossless compression it's even better. And without that DRM, they wouldn't be able to sell anything. Blaming Apple is like blaming the supermarket for the bag of salad with the E. coli in it.
Have our standards fallen so low that we have to resort to the excuse "at least we're not THAT bad!"?
"Welcome to the desert of the real." -- Morpheus
That's so pathetic.
That's reality. Life and the world will never be perfect. The best you can do is be less imperfect than anyone else.
There's also the fact that much of what is being said about Iran (the government) is fairly accurate.
1. Because it's easier to hate your own country and countrymen due to their immediate proximity.
2. Iranian laws don't affect American rights,. People are going to focus on the laws that affect them directly.
Also, you can't use Slashdot as a good gauge. The Gaussian bulk of people here are narcissistic technogeeks who desperately and continually seek a reason to feel superior. You don't get that same self righteous buzz criticizing people in another hemisphere as you get calling your fellow citizens idiots because they bought a Tivo instead of investing thirty-twelveteen hours setting up MythTV.
I just don't get why I'm supposed to care about the internal problems of every nation on Earth.
But then people will do "man on the street" surveys and declare "Americans is stoopid" because an insurance claims adjuster in Kansas City doesn't know that the current Vice President of Burundi is Martin Nduwimana. Don't you see? All this important and scientifically precise research must be done to paint the one of the most diverse citizenries on the planet as a pack of groupthink doubleminus troglodytes. Shame on you! You will be banned from the collective and denied your universal health care!
including cut-and-paste, the origin of which the 56-year-old Levy had to explain to 20-something Google employees.
I guess all that drinking 19th century wines and fucking whores on piles of $100 bills must have erased their memory of kindergarten.
How long would it take to charge with indoor light, or even reflected sunlight? The solar batteries I've seen require extended periods in direct sun.
I've been considering a solar charger for all my C/AA/AAA battery powered home devices (remotes, cordless phones, clocks, etc.). Maybe a centralized solution like that might be better. Then you can just put a small panel up on the roof or a south facing wall or something.
The problem there with cell phones (and watches for that matter) is the utter lack of battery standardization. I never understood why the world needs 900 types of watch battery, many of which can't even be distinguished visually.
Need to go more in the Battlebots direction:
The Vivisector
The Amputator
Dr. Lecter
Medica Malpractica
The Ripper
I'm sorry, but where did I say "take massive, unsafe of ibuprofen?" 500 mg is *two* gelcaps.
Cite me one study where an occasional, regular dose of Advil for a hangover seriously hurts anyone more than the drunkeness that instigated its use.
NSAIDs also destroy the lining of the intestines, causing leaky gut syndrome. Which can lead to allergies, arthritis, cancer, and a lot of other bad things.
But drinking yourself into oblivion is OK?
You're like the woman I saw on the news complaining about a cell phone tower near her kid's school, and when the camera turns to another parent (but you could still see her), she lights up a cigarette.
If I have a hangover I'll take a Tylenol or Aspirin.
Why that works?
Nobody knows either.
Damaged cells use enzymes called cyclooxygenase to generate chemicals called prostaglandins.
The prostaglandins cause your nerve endings to say "Hey! This hurts!"
Aspirin prevents the production of prostaglandins.
Oh, and try my hangover cure: a huge glass of orange juice and 500 mg of ibuprofin, preferably gelcaps.
>>> So create your own
I've actually tried now and then, but politics and ideology bore me so completely I wander into something like pondering about where the character Angel on Dexter gets those awesome hats.
I suppose I could start and anti-politics blog. I could take apart various other political blogs and show where they wander between true critical thinking and ideological zerothink. That might be fun.
Or I could start a fan site for Angel's hats.