Learn to think like your opponent, or you will be defeated every time.
Have you ever even played chess? It annoys the hell out of me when people use chess as an example when they want to sound deep or clever.
Psychology, considering your opponent, is a minor element in chess. Iplay against pieces.
And while you're at it, I don't think much of your theory either. The sods who are willing to kill themselves for the cause aren't the people who do the actual planning. Ergo, the people who do the planning, aren't the ones going to die. And they seem quite happy to outline goals.
No, you're actually very on topic. I don't think your prediction is right though, any more than I think that women will ever make up 50% of CS and engineering courses. Of course, as technology becomes more accepted and easier to use (think what the one button control on the ipod has done for tech adoption), more people (women are people too) will use it (women my age can generally use a VCR - my dad can't), but real competence will remain in the hands of those interested enough to fiddle with the more complicated stuff. Sorry for the horrible formatting on my reply, but I'm too tired to be coherent right now.
My mother falls right in the eldest of the group, and while she is comfortable with computers, she can bearly troubleshoot and would take a diamond ring over a TV anyday - but then again she is a teacher that doesn't watch much TV.
Quick word of advice, don't ever let her see the sentence where you used "that" to refer to a person.
The 49% figure sounds like rubbish to me. I'd like to see the survey questions. I don't know too many women whose technical skills extend beyond basic MS Office, web browsing, email and uploading illegally copied music to their ipods. In fairness though, I know plenty of men who are no better.
Custard thickened with starch is a non-Newtonian fluid which in short means that if impacted with sufficient force it behaves more like a solid than a liquid, as a consequence, as was dramatically demonstrated on Sky Television's Brainiac: Science Abuse programme, it is possible for a full-grown adult to walk across a swimming pool filled with custard, without sinking.
Have to agree. My favourite film this year has been Brick, which was made for half a million dollars.
You only need tens of millions if you have (a) super-stars' salarys to pay or (b) a special effects wankfest. But then Hollyword has this delusion that you need both to sell a movie, and so no one pays much attention to the script any more.
Agreed entirely.
You know what's really racist? Looking at that poster and thinking, "There's a black person and a white person". When my attention was drawn to it (on http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/ this morning), but before I read the context of it being brought up, I just saw two people.
Of course this still basically agrees with the other parts of your post: taking away the property of a conman who destroyed other people's life savings and forcing him to live off his own labor is a fitting punishment.
*Gasp* You mean... live like any other poor schmuck? Taking ill-gotten gains off a financial criminal is not sufficient punishment in my book. He didn't just accumulate money wrongly, he ruined lives doing it.
MS is shortly going to be trying to convince businesses to do exactly that though. I doubt that switching to the next version of MS Office is no easier than switching to OO.org.
While I agree that parents need to take more responsibility for their children's upbringing, and that the state continues to ignore that in favour of further nannying legislation (and this is from someone who considers the term "nanny-state" to be enormously abused), I'm not sure I like the implication that every kid that goes wrong is the parents fault.
It smacks of the old attitude that autism in children was the result of parential neglect. Yes, people, even specialists, once thought that. In light of what is known now, that fact makes my stomach churn.
While I don't disagree much with your point, I would add that I, and many other people, expect certain things from the government beyond liberty and security. I expect that garbage be collected - I don't mind if it's subcontracted and if there's a fee (though I'd rather that was covered in income tax, as benefits the truely poor), but if there's no service, there will be serious public health issues.
That brings me on to something else I consider a requirement from the government. Healthcare. I don't believe that the poorest people in society should be unable to get medical care because they can't afford it. Finally, I'd passionately despise any government that withdrew manditory public education.
But, hey, as long as there aren't riots in the street, and you can carry guns and smoke pot, none of the rest really matters, does it?
Well, -1/1 = 1/-1
So sqrt(-1/1) = sqrt(1/-1)
or sqrt(-1)/sqrt(1) = sqrt(1)/sqrt(-1)
or i/1 = 1/i
That's the same as i/2 = 1/2i
add 9/2i to both sides and then multiply both by i
You get i^2/2 + 9/2 = 1/2 + 9/2
which is -1/2 + 9/2 = 1/2 + 9/2
Therefore 4=5. It's not much of a stretch to prove that 6=5, so 6-4=0
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Psychology, considering your opponent, is a minor element in chess. I play against pieces.
And while you're at it, I don't think much of your theory either. The sods who are willing to kill themselves for the cause aren't the people who do the actual planning. Ergo, the people who do the planning, aren't the ones going to die. And they seem quite happy to outline goals.
You mean like the cost of living?
No, you're actually very on topic. I don't think your prediction is right though, any more than I think that women will ever make up 50% of CS and engineering courses. Of course, as technology becomes more accepted and easier to use (think what the one button control on the ipod has done for tech adoption), more people (women are people too) will use it (women my age can generally use a VCR - my dad can't), but real competence will remain in the hands of those interested enough to fiddle with the more complicated stuff. Sorry for the horrible formatting on my reply, but I'm too tired to be coherent right now.
Quick word of advice, don't ever let her see the sentence where you used "that" to refer to a person.
The 49% figure sounds like rubbish to me. I'd like to see the survey questions. I don't know too many women whose technical skills extend beyond basic MS Office, web browsing, email and uploading illegally copied music to their ipods. In fairness though, I know plenty of men who are no better.Have to agree. My favourite film this year has been Brick, which was made for half a million dollars.
You only need tens of millions if you have (a) super-stars' salarys to pay or (b) a special effects wankfest. But then Hollyword has this delusion that you need both to sell a movie, and so no one pays much attention to the script any more.
That's becoming my new sig. Cheers. :)
Wow. Someone among the first ten posts didn't post an "I for one ... mouse overlords" cliche.
No, it seems to me that these proteins are made by the body, while prions are infectious agents (though made entirely of protein themselves).
Agreed entirely. You know what's really racist? Looking at that poster and thinking, "There's a black person and a white person". When my attention was drawn to it (on http://www.ctrlaltdel-online.com/ this morning), but before I read the context of it being brought up, I just saw two people.
I admire your admiration.
Tag it flamebait.
Mod parent up. Grammatical pedants shoudln't be this funny.
How about ______-inhumer?
/Pratchett
MS is shortly going to be trying to convince businesses to do exactly that though. I doubt that switching to the next version of MS Office is no easier than switching to OO.org.
While I agree that parents need to take more responsibility for their children's upbringing, and that the state continues to ignore that in favour of further nannying legislation (and this is from someone who considers the term "nanny-state" to be enormously abused), I'm not sure I like the implication that every kid that goes wrong is the parents fault.
It smacks of the old attitude that autism in children was the result of parential neglect. Yes, people, even specialists, once thought that. In light of what is known now, that fact makes my stomach churn.
While I don't disagree much with your point, I would add that I, and many other people, expect certain things from the government beyond liberty and security. I expect that garbage be collected - I don't mind if it's subcontracted and if there's a fee (though I'd rather that was covered in income tax, as benefits the truely poor), but if there's no service, there will be serious public health issues.
That brings me on to something else I consider a requirement from the government. Healthcare. I don't believe that the poorest people in society should be unable to get medical care because they can't afford it. Finally, I'd passionately despise any government that withdrew manditory public education.
But, hey, as long as there aren't riots in the street, and you can carry guns and smoke pot, none of the rest really matters, does it?
Bah! You're one of them - Chinese commies come to poison our vital bodily fluids.
Well, -1/1 = 1/-1
So sqrt(-1/1) = sqrt(1/-1)
or sqrt(-1)/sqrt(1) = sqrt(1)/sqrt(-1)
or i/1 = 1/i
That's the same as i/2 = 1/2i
add 9/2i to both sides and then multiply both by i
You get i^2/2 + 9/2 = 1/2 + 9/2
which is -1/2 + 9/2 = 1/2 + 9/2
Therefore 4=5. It's not much of a stretch to prove that 6=5, so 6-4=0
It's all a big Chinese conspiracy, I tell ya.
But would that not imply that the other search engines are getting around the firewall?
If the firewall is so effective, why would China have asked Google to impliment a search filter that's inferior to existing methods?
You took the words right out of my, erm... fingers(?). I call copyright. ;)