Yeah, there is a real meaning behind "Christmas": the entire population of the temperate Northern Hemisphere deluding themselves into thinking that cold and lack of daylight are somehow jolly!
In case nobody's told you, your savior was born in April or May.
You honestly think the Judeans (read: ancient Israelites) didn't have wine before the Romans brought it to them/us? DO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST!? Wine was the standard drink for all occasions in the entire Mediterranean area!
And he seems to be proposing a system to counter this effect. I know we all want to jump on the Usage Nazi train for his misuse of the word "censorship", but has anyone considered that he has a good idea?
Humanity needs to know NOW: if we develop space travel, will this substance enable enough limited prescience in human minds to get a first post on Slashdot?
Linux works. After I got my mom to dual-boot Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Windows XP she made the decision to kick Windows entirely off her hard drive.
After about a year using it, she's telling me all the stuff I hear about Linux from geeks on Slashdot: that, quite amazingly, it does what she wants it to do. She says that learning a few commands and some GUI tools is completely worth that.
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You just described the olden-day title of "hacker".
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You hit the real head of the nail right here:
does not dedicate all his time to sports and ever-going popularity contest
American juvenile subcultures are each built around something that the subculture considers Serious Business, and to be well-liked within the subculture one must excel at the chosen activity, requiring not merely ordinary talent or hobby-grade practice but full-on dedication. Nobody can work hard at academics, sports, and art because excelling in each of those activities requires becoming so involved that the activity dominates one's life. And nobody can have their life solely dominated by 3 things at once.
So the kids end up making trade-offs. They separate by whether they want to be good at academics, sports, or art; if they have talent they may have the ability to do well in two at once. But only the rare Kwisatz Haderach can do all three.
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So basically he stole a girl from her douchebag boyfriend by being an even bigger douchebag. Thank you "Revenge of the Nerds" for making nerds everywhere look like good people.
Oh, what the fuck am I saying? Nobody gives a shit about being a good person anymore. I guess I'll just go drink scotch until I can no longer tell good from bad any longer. Then things will seem OK.
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There goes someone who learned to read at an advanced age, like, say, in school. If you had learned these words from reading and looking them up in the dictionary, you would have acquired the proper pronunciation for each. "There" is pronounced "the-ere", "their" rhymes with "Jane Eyre", and "they're" is sounded out as "they are", but with the middle vowels shortened. Learn to speak, and you'll learn to spell.
Only with certain accents. In most American accents (and a great many British and Indian ones) the words "their", "they're" and "there" sound exactly the same.
Before you go blaming the lack of Americans in STEM fields on "faith", please examine the notable over-representation of Jews in those fields. Some religions might not respect intellect or study, but some do.
How many times must this be said? Biology plays a role, yes, but mostly it's money. Computing, post-graduate science, and engineering just don't compensate people well for the lifestyle sacrifices (long working hours, little exercise) required. Women prefer good pay and healthy lifestyles more where men prefer interesting work more. Thus...
Oh shut up. Anyone with sense knows that the real reason for the lack of women in Comp Sci is that it just doesn't pay very well for the hours you have to work.
See, that stuff is called "a healthy separation between one's personal and professional life". As in: telling the boss you're not working 60 hour weeks more than once every 2 months gives you enough time in each day to develop some people skills, find a hobby, and use those two factors to find a girlfriend.
Guy might have the nerdiest profession on Earth, but if he keeps it in the office he doesn't need to develop the Stigmata of the Slashdotter.
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Yeah, there is a real meaning behind "Christmas": the entire population of the temperate Northern Hemisphere deluding themselves into thinking that cold and lack of daylight are somehow jolly!
In case nobody's told you, your savior was born in April or May.
You honestly think the Judeans (read: ancient Israelites) didn't have wine before the Romans brought it to them/us? DO YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST!? Wine was the standard drink for all occasions in the entire Mediterranean area!
And he seems to be proposing a system to counter this effect. I know we all want to jump on the Usage Nazi train for his misuse of the word "censorship", but has anyone considered that he has a good idea?
Nah, they'd just "streamline" to give the CS kids herpes by injection instead of the normal way.
Uh, no. Verizon uses CDMA.
The university has a Computer Science department, so giving the money to herpes research would be discrimination against them.
Humanity needs to know NOW: if we develop space travel, will this substance enable enough limited prescience in human minds to get a first post on Slashdot?
From Slashdot I'd say we've been inventing a lot of stillsuit materials lately.
Well what currency would we bid with?
/me passes the bottle. It's a good blended Scotch, aged in a Bourbon cask.
Linux works. After I got my mom to dual-boot Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Windows XP she made the decision to kick Windows entirely off her hard drive.
After about a year using it, she's telling me all the stuff I hear about Linux from geeks on Slashdot: that, quite amazingly, it does what she wants it to do. She says that learning a few commands and some GUI tools is completely worth that.
You just described the olden-day title of "hacker".
You hit the real head of the nail right here:
does not dedicate all his time to sports and ever-going popularity contest
American juvenile subcultures are each built around something that the subculture considers Serious Business, and to be well-liked within the subculture one must excel at the chosen activity, requiring not merely ordinary talent or hobby-grade practice but full-on dedication. Nobody can work hard at academics, sports, and art because excelling in each of those activities requires becoming so involved that the activity dominates one's life. And nobody can have their life solely dominated by 3 things at once.
So the kids end up making trade-offs. They separate by whether they want to be good at academics, sports, or art; if they have talent they may have the ability to do well in two at once. But only the rare Kwisatz Haderach can do all three.
So basically he stole a girl from her douchebag boyfriend by being an even bigger douchebag. Thank you "Revenge of the Nerds" for making nerds everywhere look like good people.
Oh, what the fuck am I saying? Nobody gives a shit about being a good person anymore. I guess I'll just go drink scotch until I can no longer tell good from bad any longer. Then things will seem OK.
There goes someone who learned to read at an advanced age, like, say, in school. If you had learned these words from reading and looking them up in the dictionary, you would have acquired the proper pronunciation for each. "There" is pronounced "the-ere", "their" rhymes with "Jane Eyre", and "they're" is sounded out as "they are", but with the middle vowels shortened. Learn to speak, and you'll learn to spell.
Only with certain accents. In most American accents (and a great many British and Indian ones) the words "their", "they're" and "there" sound exactly the same.
Rape ain't exactly so wrong in Kabul.
Before you go blaming the lack of Americans in STEM fields on "faith", please examine the notable over-representation of Jews in those fields. Some religions might not respect intellect or study, but some do.
OH DEAR LORD. They've already got simulflow and the Weirding Way? We've got to take them out before they start the Bene Gesserit!
It doesn't lack significant evidence, it failed to cover all available cases. I should have noted that women also tend to be more altruistic than men.
If it was last night when I had mod points, I'd give you +1 insightful. When did "American" become a lifestyle rather than a place of birth?
How many times must this be said? Biology plays a role, yes, but mostly it's money. Computing, post-graduate science, and engineering just don't compensate people well for the lifestyle sacrifices (long working hours, little exercise) required. Women prefer good pay and healthy lifestyles more where men prefer interesting work more. Thus...
Oh shut up. Anyone with sense knows that the real reason for the lack of women in Comp Sci is that it just doesn't pay very well for the hours you have to work.
It says that, given that we exist, our universe must be the way it is.
Which is still bull. How can we claim that a universe constructed differently would never give rise to human (or at least sentient) life?
See, that stuff is called "a healthy separation between one's personal and professional life". As in: telling the boss you're not working 60 hour weeks more than once every 2 months gives you enough time in each day to develop some people skills, find a hobby, and use those two factors to find a girlfriend.
Guy might have the nerdiest profession on Earth, but if he keeps it in the office he doesn't need to develop the Stigmata of the Slashdotter.
Hey, hey, time travel didn't ruin "Heroes". Shit writing ruined "Heroes". Time travel has given us the greatness of "Doctor Who".