It's a ground breaking theory object. It's an unprecedented astonishing piece of my job description, which is to drop lit matches into the wet bog of unrecognizable distributed intelligence of cyberspace. The creator is Frankenstein, running wild with radical atheist poets. The legacy people must become the change I want to see in the european dissident crowd. I am fearless and brilliant. The center does not hold, for its the end of history...
Milosevic was a bad leader.
My freenode password only exists because of channels that strive to keep out spambots, and it's 'password'. If someone is lame enough that they have nothing better to do than impersonate me on freenode, that is in itself punishment for the crime...
It might be fun to impersonate twkm and give icy answers to the entire western worlds obscure C questions, but in order to do that one would have to know as much obscure C crap as twkm does...
All the people I know who can write well are people who read extensively for pleasure. As far as I'm concerned, outside of Mathematical pursuits, the majority of education should be replaced by efforts to whet people's interest to read, and then not harassing them with lectures. The average lecturer, while by no means a stupid person, is far less eloquent or erudite than some of those whose thoughts one can encounter by way of the written english word. Try to convince your students that they have something to gain by reading Jane Austen, or Mark Twain. Ideally, go back in time and convince them of this when they're nine or ten, and install enough gumption in them to ignore much of their 'schooling' in favor of their education.
"Google doesn't have a choice in the matter"
This is crappy ethics. Whether or not any of us have a choice in any matter is an issue for philosophical debate. However, as much as any entity does Google clearly has a choice in this matter. That choice is between acting unequivocally in support of freedom of speech for all, or making a play for the chinese market. One might defend making a play for the chinese market as being justified as part of a gradualist reform strategy etcetera blah blah, but to claim that there is no "choice" is just irresponsible and lazy...
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I have to admit that "Giant turnips of Nationalist Resentment" is a pretty excellent turn of the pen...
It's a ground breaking theory object. It's an unprecedented astonishing piece of my job description, which is to drop lit matches into the wet bog of unrecognizable distributed intelligence of cyberspace. The creator is Frankenstein, running wild with radical atheist poets. The legacy people must become the change I want to see in the european dissident crowd. I am fearless and brilliant. The center does not hold, for its the end of history... Milosevic was a bad leader.
My freenode password only exists because of channels that strive to keep out spambots, and it's 'password'. If someone is lame enough that they have nothing better to do than impersonate me on freenode, that is in itself punishment for the crime... It might be fun to impersonate twkm and give icy answers to the entire western worlds obscure C questions, but in order to do that one would have to know as much obscure C crap as twkm does...
All the people I know who can write well are people who read extensively for pleasure. As far as I'm concerned, outside of Mathematical pursuits, the majority of education should be replaced by efforts to whet people's interest to read, and then not harassing them with lectures. The average lecturer, while by no means a stupid person, is far less eloquent or erudite than some of those whose thoughts one can encounter by way of the written english word. Try to convince your students that they have something to gain by reading Jane Austen, or Mark Twain. Ideally, go back in time and convince them of this when they're nine or ten, and install enough gumption in them to ignore much of their 'schooling' in favor of their education.
Is anyone struck by how inexpensive $100,000 seems for a space suit
or maybe Paul Graham or Joel Splosky..
Deriding others by calling them juvenile is more effective when you spell the word correctly...
"Google doesn't have a choice in the matter" This is crappy ethics. Whether or not any of us have a choice in any matter is an issue for philosophical debate. However, as much as any entity does Google clearly has a choice in this matter. That choice is between acting unequivocally in support of freedom of speech for all, or making a play for the chinese market. One might defend making a play for the chinese market as being justified as part of a gradualist reform strategy etcetera blah blah, but to claim that there is no "choice" is just irresponsible and lazy...