I know that there are some shittleheads who will cry and whine about this and about how wonderful ISS is because the astronauts do experiments with crystals up there, but it's a waste of money
I'll give you improving the up and down bit, but they aren't playing with crystals because someone accidentally left the legos back at Cape Kennedy. Whatever you want to see done in space, low-G research and an orbital platform are a necessary step to getting there.
The point is it's a double standard. American football is second only to boxing as a means of asserting your will through brute force--yet everyone recognizes, fully, that it's a game.
Reason doesn't win votes, lawsuits, or airtime. Hollering does. Everybody's got a radical viewpoint these days, and opposing ones feed off each other. I wish that JUST ONCE, EVERYBODY WOULD SHUT THE--err, I mean...it'd be nice if we all calmed down and discussed this like adults.
Popular loudmouths:
Penn Jillette
Michael Moore
Howard Stern
Bill O'Reilly
Pat Robertson
etc.
Being obnoxious, as a media figure, serves to recruit people fed up with the other side and give legitimacy to politicians who are even-tempered by comparison. Also, you can insult someone's masculinity; if he snaps, you take the high ground, and if not, call him a snake.
An argument with an audience is an emotional chess match, not a logical one.
Part of our national mythology is that Americans can do anything they want. It's implied that Americans have always done everything by themselves, and the natural conclusion is that we always will.
Any suggestion that can be construed as threatening this mythology is immediately tarred and feathered by reactionary political pundits. For a number of reasons, critical mass occurred; any suggestion we not take the rest of the world for granted is nominally Liberal and therefore a reason to continue doing so.
I always liked the way that conversation goes at parties. If there's a follow-up question, it's always "What kind?" and occasionally incredulous. One learns to say "algebra" and change the subject.
Better educated primary school teachers are impossible until teaching becomes a legitimate career option for people with postgraduate degrees, or the public university baccalaureate means more. An Ivy League undergrad course is a PhD qualifying exam sequence at ordinary schools. The exposure to abstract mathematics doesn't reach significance--much less unification--with a BS in math ed. This becomes a chicken-or-egg problem as administrative culture more or less asks us not to "cover too much."
That horrible question, when will I ever use this?, becomes a sort of grim reality. The demeanor attractive to the job market is perpendicular to, if not opposite from, what one develops as a scientist. "Credentialing" is absolutely the right word for the university's function, unfortunate as that is. Our economy wants telephone sanitizers. We can outsource engineering.
Even engineers are given a sterile, utilitarian view of the landscape. This is math, we say: increasingly bigger calculus problems. We're squandering our geeks.
I don't think bad teachers are to blame. Boring, maybe, but not resentful. Our curriculum asks little of students, and they fail to develop a work ethic. Once things are less intuitive, it's easier to move sideways. Bright girls in particular seem to diversify to other subjects and find praise there.
Try Franz Kafka. I'm guessing anything done by a guy named Kafka in the last fifty years, hence relevant to current research, is not what you're looking for. The priority is to serve the bleeding edge and worry about history eventually.
It's really great for science, simply for transparent navigation. The convenience over the library system (search title, select journal, login, find year, find volume, find article) or existing frontends (login, select author/title/keyword, worry about syntax, hope what you want is in the DB) isn't brain surgery. But it's quite nice.
There's about a 25-year availability sweet spot between "too old to have been digitized yet" and "recent enough the publisher is still ekeing profits out of a subscription model." Any impetus for improvement to belongs to copyright holders. Their fees come from schools, and recent years have seen their own microcosm of BS from certain money-grubbing weasels.
The short version is that libraries' print catalogues just shrank because Elsevier decided to price-gouge; generic numbers are $1M at x% of total journals = 10x% of journal budget. The contract says anything you cancel makes everything you keep cost more.
It's a tempest in a teacup, but so was the price of a CD in 1995.
Like "Cuntlet," the Gauntlet remake where the player characters were penises and labia?
I was told in 12th grade English--that school period between the M and AO rating--the Miller's Tale [of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales] is moste filthye. I went looking for it, but didn't find anything exciting. So I'd find culturally-approved wacking material, like the yearbook, SI Swimsuit Calendar, or an issue of Cosmo.
What if you're on the left, but you haven't voting for the past 50 years? I know it was my duty as a citizen, but I sort of thought not being alive was a reasonable excuse.
So yeah--the American Socialist Party begat the neocon philosophy, which produced students who wrote policy for Reagan, Bush and Bush. If today's GOP wants to own up to being politically liberal and using religion as a smokescreen for a radical agenda that revolted mainstream conservative voters in '92, I'll sign anything you want. Get America's conservative party back on track and we'll talk. The compulsive liar, constitution-wrecking-zealot problem is slightly more immediate than the socialism / free enterprise paradigm.
Not to be bitter, but Congressmen don't care about what individuals in their constituency think anymore. Every vote they cast on hot-button issues is tabulated by some special interest group. If you vote the right way, they will make your career. If you vote wrong, they will crucify you.
So he'd like to silence people who don't want him elected? Wow. That makes the quote even worse.
Yeah, well, I thought clarifying an incorrect quote in the parent was always a good thing, but whoever modded me overrated is probably feeling pretty good about himself.
The context of that quote, FYI, was that the owner of gwbush.com put up a site criticizing his presidency bid in '99, titled "Just Say No to Former Cocaine User for President." The exact quote is "There ought to be limits to freedom."
It alarms me just how riled up people can become over our nation's inability to say "Thanks, but I'm really not interested, please take me off the list."
When the person on the other end won't take no for an answer, or even give you a chance to reply, you are denied any opportunity to end the conversation politely. They know this, and you know they know it, and they know you know, in an infinite regress like some hellish Escher painting.
Their whole spiel depends on your being polite long enough to get interested. Thanks and sorry were not designed for this situation.
You know, while these guys aren't getting sharpened sticks under their toenails, neither did John McCain. They beat him for a year and a half. But they took him to a hospital after his jet crash. Fed his the same food they ate. Set his broken limbs. So he'd live. For five months recovery. Then they locked him up in a 10x10 room with daily toilet changes and regular baths.
In his own words, "not too bad." It's not the 3 hots and a cot everybody minds, it's the interrogation room. It's not comfortable, whether you're kicked until your ribs break or sleep-deprived and forced to stand. McCain exercised his Geneva right to send and receive mail from home.
Torture can always be more more detestable, more repugnant, more pointless. To make light of his imprisonment just because he still breathes, with four limbs and two eyes, would be retarded. So would be comparing Vietnam to the Holocaust, or Gitmo to either. That some leftist morons have scrounged publicity for drawing insulting BS "parallels" doesn't justify trading dumb for dumb and pretending the quote "widespread abuse" that quote "shocked Congress" is Disneyworld resort. There is no by comparison.
There are two differences. One, the VC didn't do all this psychosexual crap, which is just weird. "Be proud of your daddy; he makes brown men touch each others' dicks." Do you trivialize how dishonorable and sick that is because ignoring it helps you sleep better, or do your religious / moral values actually endorse that behavior, in the name of the US military, for people who haven't been convicted of (or charged with) a crime, and are often released after two years without being found guilty, or useful, at all?
Two, the US military and the US constitution are not some tinpot dictator ruling a country of rice farmers. They represent Americans, and this torture--breaking men to get information--in its most harmless form is still idiotic fraternity hazing acted out by boys, engineered by slimeballs, and antithetical to George Washington, freedom, the bible, or whatever it is you think our country stands for.
Your respectful hospitality could take place on US soil. You're a dishonest coward to suggest the abuse at Gitmo amounts to as much. The mom, church and apple pie pretense of neo-con jackals is almost as disgusting as the menstrual blood and urination events they 'attaboy. They have the audacity to feign horror when the mercs we subcontract the real legwork to are set on fire and hung from a bridge, as if in some backwards moral world genital electrocution shouldn't upset the locals. Especially after America destroyed their country in a war for no goddamn reason, which America lied about, and fought in spite of international law, other than post facto to use their country as a lightning rod for suicide bombers. It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to figure out where the "hearts and minds" campaign went south, or how the Ottoman empire--ahem, Middle East--could be predisposed to less than absolute trust in America's motives.
Sooner or later the insurgents and the terrorists are going to figure out shooting at soldiers doesn't buy them squat, and it'd be more efficient to maintain their own front in Manhattan or LA. Terror cells now have a recruitment campaign money couldn't buy, and despite the two-bit intel the Gitmo depravity squeezes out of the occasional detainee, we don't have any record of finding those. So America's long-term position is to take civillian casualties and domestic instability from shadow networks spanning Iran, Syria, Pakistan, the peninsula, Egypt, Morocco, etc., while maintaining a full troop commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan, or lock down domestic freedom while handing their investors and oil production to China, or just nuke two continents and set off WW3. And for what?
I wish just once all the major networks would break a story like this, except about China. After about two weeks of popular outrage and senate condemnation, they'd run a correction that it's actually the United States semantically dodging the Geneva prohibition of blinding laser weapons, much less for crowd control.
A personal FUCK YOU! from me to everybody at Sandia for their flagrant lie of a press release outlining the weapon's purpose as the defense of nuclear assets.
The line between a rioting crowd and a crowd that could potentially riot is a thin one. We routinely use tear gas to disperse political protests and block parties. This technology didn't stop the LA riots or the WTO riots, so why expect far less deployable microwave tanks to?
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Would also be a hell of an RTS or Civ-type game depending on what elements were PC controlled and what was farmed out to a good tech tree. Heck, it would make a good scaled-up / persistent world Tribes-type game.
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Should it be possible for a big corp to throw lots of money at the key employees of the competition and drive them out of business?
Is it sensible to apply this principle when "the competition" = world's N richest men?
I know that there are some shittleheads who will cry and whine about this and about how wonderful ISS is because the astronauts do experiments with crystals up there, but it's a waste of money
I'll give you improving the up and down bit, but they aren't playing with crystals because someone accidentally left the legos back at Cape Kennedy. Whatever you want to see done in space, low-G research and an orbital platform are a necessary step to getting there.
No air = no lift.
There's free as in speech, free as in beer, and now free as in sex.
The point is it's a double standard. American football is second only to boxing as a means of asserting your will through brute force--yet everyone recognizes, fully, that it's a game.
Reason doesn't win votes, lawsuits, or airtime. Hollering does. Everybody's got a radical viewpoint these days, and opposing ones feed off each other. I wish that JUST ONCE, EVERYBODY WOULD SHUT THE--err, I mean...it'd be nice if we all calmed down and discussed this like adults.
Popular loudmouths:
Penn Jillette
Michael Moore
Howard Stern
Bill O'Reilly
Pat Robertson
etc.
Being obnoxious, as a media figure, serves to recruit people fed up with the other side and give legitimacy to politicians who are even-tempered by comparison. Also, you can insult someone's masculinity; if he snaps, you take the high ground, and if not, call him a snake.
An argument with an audience is an emotional chess match, not a logical one.
Part of our national mythology is that Americans can do anything they want. It's implied that Americans have always done everything by themselves, and the natural conclusion is that we always will.
Any suggestion that can be construed as threatening this mythology is immediately tarred and feathered by reactionary political pundits. For a number of reasons, critical mass occurred; any suggestion we not take the rest of the world for granted is nominally Liberal and therefore a reason to continue doing so.
I always liked the way that conversation goes at parties. If there's a follow-up question, it's always "What kind?" and occasionally incredulous. One learns to say "algebra" and change the subject.
Better educated primary school teachers are impossible until teaching becomes a legitimate career option for people with postgraduate degrees, or the public university baccalaureate means more. An Ivy League undergrad course is a PhD qualifying exam sequence at ordinary schools. The exposure to abstract mathematics doesn't reach significance--much less unification--with a BS in math ed. This becomes a chicken-or-egg problem as administrative culture more or less asks us not to "cover too much."
That horrible question, when will I ever use this?, becomes a sort of grim reality. The demeanor attractive to the job market is perpendicular to, if not opposite from, what one develops as a scientist. "Credentialing" is absolutely the right word for the university's function, unfortunate as that is. Our economy wants telephone sanitizers. We can outsource engineering.
Even engineers are given a sterile, utilitarian view of the landscape. This is math, we say: increasingly bigger calculus problems. We're squandering our geeks.
I don't think bad teachers are to blame. Boring, maybe, but not resentful. Our curriculum asks little of students, and they fail to develop a work ethic. Once things are less intuitive, it's easier to move sideways. Bright girls in particular seem to diversify to other subjects and find praise there.
I see him more as a "Baby Got Black" type of dude.
Indices is plural for index. The other way is like Tyrannosaurus Reece.
Try Franz Kafka. I'm guessing anything done by a guy named Kafka in the last fifty years, hence relevant to current research, is not what you're looking for. The priority is to serve the bleeding edge and worry about history eventually.
It's really great for science, simply for transparent navigation. The convenience over the library system (search title, select journal, login, find year, find volume, find article) or existing frontends (login, select author/title/keyword, worry about syntax, hope what you want is in the DB) isn't brain surgery. But it's quite nice.
There's about a 25-year availability sweet spot between "too old to have been digitized yet" and "recent enough the publisher is still ekeing profits out of a subscription model." Any impetus for improvement to belongs to copyright holders. Their fees come from schools, and recent years have seen their own microcosm of BS from certain money-grubbing weasels.
The short version is that libraries' print catalogues just shrank because Elsevier decided to price-gouge; generic numbers are $1M at x% of total journals = 10x% of journal budget. The contract says anything you cancel makes everything you keep cost more.
It's a tempest in a teacup, but so was the price of a CD in 1995.
Does anybody remember classic porn-games?
Like "Cuntlet," the Gauntlet remake where the player characters were penises and labia?
I was told in 12th grade English--that school period between the M and AO rating--the Miller's Tale [of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales] is moste filthye. I went looking for it, but didn't find anything exciting. So I'd find culturally-approved wacking material, like the yearbook, SI Swimsuit Calendar, or an issue of Cosmo.
There's a subtle lesson in that.
See if they'll give you AlterBeasta.com for half off.
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their lawyers talked them out of "Minna Daisuki Windows!". See, in the new UI, you control this little man...
What if you're on the left, but you haven't voting for the past 50 years? I know it was my duty as a citizen, but I sort of thought not being alive was a reasonable excuse.
So yeah--the American Socialist Party begat the neocon philosophy, which produced students who wrote policy for Reagan, Bush and Bush. If today's GOP wants to own up to being politically liberal and using religion as a smokescreen for a radical agenda that revolted mainstream conservative voters in '92, I'll sign anything you want. Get America's conservative party back on track and we'll talk. The compulsive liar, constitution-wrecking-zealot problem is slightly more immediate than the socialism / free enterprise paradigm.
Not to be bitter, but Congressmen don't care about what individuals in their constituency think anymore. Every vote they cast on hot-button issues is tabulated by some special interest group. If you vote the right way, they will make your career. If you vote wrong, they will crucify you.
So he'd like to silence people who don't want him elected? Wow. That makes the quote even worse.
Yeah, well, I thought clarifying an incorrect quote in the parent was always a good thing, but whoever modded me overrated is probably feeling pretty good about himself.
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Since there's no law that says they can't, I assume the Feds have already searched my house and library records. How's that grab you, "Republican"?
The context of that quote, FYI, was that the owner of gwbush.com put up a site criticizing his presidency bid in '99, titled "Just Say No to Former Cocaine User for President." The exact quote is "There ought to be limits to freedom."
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It alarms me just how riled up people can become over our nation's inability to say "Thanks, but I'm really not interested, please take me off the list."
When the person on the other end won't take no for an answer, or even give you a chance to reply, you are denied any opportunity to end the conversation politely. They know this, and you know they know it, and they know you know, in an infinite regress like some hellish Escher painting.
Their whole spiel depends on your being polite long enough to get interested. Thanks and sorry were not designed for this situation.
Never mind duping ITEMS, I think Blizzard must be duping Chinese players!
*Limit one per household.
You know, while these guys aren't getting sharpened sticks under their toenails, neither did John McCain. They beat him for a year and a half. But they took him to a hospital after his jet crash. Fed his the same food they ate. Set his broken limbs. So he'd live. For five months recovery. Then they locked him up in a 10x10 room with daily toilet changes and regular baths.
In his own words, "not too bad." It's not the 3 hots and a cot everybody minds, it's the interrogation room. It's not comfortable, whether you're kicked until your ribs break or sleep-deprived and forced to stand. McCain exercised his Geneva right to send and receive mail from home.
Torture can always be more more detestable, more repugnant, more pointless. To make light of his imprisonment just because he still breathes, with four limbs and two eyes, would be retarded. So would be comparing Vietnam to the Holocaust, or Gitmo to either. That some leftist morons have scrounged publicity for drawing insulting BS "parallels" doesn't justify trading dumb for dumb and pretending the quote "widespread abuse" that quote "shocked Congress" is Disneyworld resort. There is no by comparison.
There are two differences. One, the VC didn't do all this psychosexual crap, which is just weird. "Be proud of your daddy; he makes brown men touch each others' dicks." Do you trivialize how dishonorable and sick that is because ignoring it helps you sleep better, or do your religious / moral values actually endorse that behavior, in the name of the US military, for people who haven't been convicted of (or charged with) a crime, and are often released after two years without being found guilty, or useful, at all?
Two, the US military and the US constitution are not some tinpot dictator ruling a country of rice farmers. They represent Americans, and this torture--breaking men to get information--in its most harmless form is still idiotic fraternity hazing acted out by boys, engineered by slimeballs, and antithetical to George Washington, freedom, the bible, or whatever it is you think our country stands for.
Your respectful hospitality could take place on US soil. You're a dishonest coward to suggest the abuse at Gitmo amounts to as much. The mom, church and apple pie pretense of neo-con jackals is almost as disgusting as the menstrual blood and urination events they 'attaboy. They have the audacity to feign horror when the mercs we subcontract the real legwork to are set on fire and hung from a bridge, as if in some backwards moral world genital electrocution shouldn't upset the locals. Especially after America destroyed their country in a war for no goddamn reason, which America lied about, and fought in spite of international law, other than post facto to use their country as a lightning rod for suicide bombers. It doesn't take Sigmund Freud to figure out where the "hearts and minds" campaign went south, or how the Ottoman empire--ahem, Middle East--could be predisposed to less than absolute trust in America's motives.
Sooner or later the insurgents and the terrorists are going to figure out shooting at soldiers doesn't buy them squat, and it'd be more efficient to maintain their own front in Manhattan or LA. Terror cells now have a recruitment campaign money couldn't buy, and despite the two-bit intel the Gitmo depravity squeezes out of the occasional detainee, we don't have any record of finding those. So America's long-term position is to take civillian casualties and domestic instability from shadow networks spanning Iran, Syria, Pakistan, the peninsula, Egypt, Morocco, etc., while maintaining a full troop commitment in Iraq and Afghanistan, or lock down domestic freedom while handing their investors and oil production to China, or just nuke two continents and set off WW3. And for what?
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I wish just once all the major networks would break a story like this, except about China. After about two weeks of popular outrage and senate condemnation, they'd run a correction that it's actually the United States semantically dodging the Geneva prohibition of blinding laser weapons, much less for crowd control. A personal FUCK YOU! from me to everybody at Sandia for their flagrant lie of a press release outlining the weapon's purpose as the defense of nuclear assets.
The line between a rioting crowd and a crowd that could potentially riot is a thin one. We routinely use tear gas to disperse political protests and block parties. This technology didn't stop the LA riots or the WTO riots, so why expect far less deployable microwave tanks to?
Would also be a hell of an RTS or Civ-type game depending on what elements were PC controlled and what was farmed out to a good tech tree. Heck, it would make a good scaled-up / persistent world Tribes-type game.