To pass someone not driving the speed limit in the right lane.
>My personal opinion about your stance is: You appear to care (way) more about the arbitrary speed limit than >about everyone else around you. My priority is the reverse: I care first and foremost about my surroundings, >including all other drivers around me, and then about the speed limit. You are aware of the fact that >frustrated drivers are more dangerous than those who are not? Right?
I will not risk getting a speeding ticket to salve other driver's frustration over not being able to exceed the speed limit.
My priorities are: - First: Obey all traffic laws so as to avoid fines and penalties. - Second: Get to my destination safely and quickly. - Third: Other people's feelings.
The fact of the matter is, it takes "X" number of joules of energy to move your typical car 300 miles.
Whether that energy is stored in a tank of gasoline, a capacitor, batteries, or a spinning flywheel, you still have X number of joules of energy that have to be safely stored and protected against unrestrained liberation.
>I just guess no one is taught anymore that the left lane(s) are for passing, >and if you're going slower than traffic around you, pull to the right and let them by.
The left lane is indeed for passing.
But the speed limit is the speed limit. It applies to all lanes, including the left one. If I'm in the left lane and doing at least the speed limit, people behind me just need to wait their turn until I can get back into the right lane again.
However, if you broke into the house, and while there you discovered a fire and rescued a child, chances are you'd still be arrested for breaking and entering, despite the fact that you did something nice in the process of breaking the law.
>Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Duh!
Would you? I wouldn't. Would I break the law and then hope people thank me for it instead of prosecute me for it, all to help my university? Fuck no.
Everyone knows no good deed goes unpunished. For good deeds done through illegal means the punishment is even more sure.
So yeah, if you're gonna hack, I hope you're getting something out of it - ass, money, personal satisfaction of dicking someone over, whatever. 'Cause altruism don't pay for shit.
The very fact that you had to provide wikipedia links to define Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis are precisely why the author of TFA did not use those terms to describe the telescope.
You know, every day it seems there is another article about some other exploit discovered. Given the fact that DRM has been demonstrated to be doomed, I think we are seeing that basically all security is doomed. I think we truly are on the cusp of zero privacy. Basically we are at the point now where if someone wants to know about your electronic data, they can do it.
Some years ago I heard of an effort to create a massively multiplayer game based on WWII combat, where there would be ground, naval, and air components that would affect things on a "global" game scale.
Did anything ever come of this?
I think it would be very cool to be, for example, a fighter pilot in a WWII simulated world.
As I recall last time I did some Googling, for what we have spent on Iraq so far we could have had something like 16 Apollo programs in today's dollars.
Any time I get a hankering for a song at work I just search for it on YouTube. It usually has some smarmy homebrew video to go with the music, but I minimize the window and just listen to the song.
>I can't wait until somebody finally gets around to making a full EV car that >seats two with ABS and Airbags, PS, Heat and AC, even if it only goes 100 miles. >If they can do it under $25k I'm there with cash in hand.
This, of course, is the big problem.
What The People want is a commuter car. They are willing to sacrifice on range and amenities, BUT they are going to expect the PRICE to be less for that sacrifice. Basically they are going to expect motorcycle prices for what amounts to a covered motorcycle.
But the car companies don't want to sell $10-$20K cars. The profit margins aren't nearly as nice as on $30-$40K SUVs and trucks.
Now you might say that the car companies will simply keep the prices artificially high. The problem here is that the barrier of entry to get into this micro-car business is not so high anymore. There are several EV car manufacturers getting off the ground now that are primed to hit this small commuter car market.
If the big car companies don't get with the program very fast, they are going to get their lunch eaten.
It seems to me that stopping doping a lot like stopping piracy. It's just not going to happen.
I suppose we could adopt an "anything goes" attitude, but what then would be the point of sports contests? To see who has the best experimental biology funding?
What it tells me is that contests of physical prowess are no longer exciting exhibits of natural talent. I have never found watching other people play games exciting anyway, but I certainly won't be interested in watching the outcome of who can afford the most sophisticated body modifications.
>Parents can cajole, entice, persuade, experiment, and threaten. I don't know where you live, but most >states I've been in do not allow 'unlimited spanking'.
I live in Alabama. I have no idea what the law is here, nor where I grew up, but my parents spanked (and slapped) me whenever and wherever they thought it was appropriate. I don't believe in slapping, but I will spank my child whenever I think it is appropriate without regard to what the State thinks about it.
>At most the parents can force external behavior >changes. But I believe only the individual can motivate herself.
As long as the deed is done it really doesn't matter. I may not have been motivated in school, but I did what was required to satisfy the demands of my parents.
>So I am suspicious when someone says 'parents need to be more involved' as if that is the end of the discussion. >It's similar to the doctors telling people to cut out fatty food for decades and we still have an obesity problem. >Now cities are trying a trans-fat ban. Let's see if that helps. It's worth a try.
It should be the end of the discussion, as it should be fairly obvious what sort of involvement is required. Children will usually rise to the expectation of their parents. Parents need to monitor academic progress, be in regular communication with the child's teachers, and make required academic benchmarks known to the child and use positive and negative rewards to compel achieving those benchmarks.
In short, parents must explicitly define required academic performance, and enforce consequences if that performance is not met. No teacher can do this.
>We need to start with Who we have now and Where we are at now. What I want to ask is, given the current level >of parental involvement, WHAT is the proper role for the staff of the school? Are we willing to >pay for it? Otherwise, it's just complaining about the weather.
The proper role for the staff of the school is to present academic material and test proficiency in that material, and we already pay for it.
>I disagree. The school has to be good first and foremost. I've seen orphans and >single-delinquent-parent children do well when subject matter and teachers were appropriate.
I do not dispute that there are rare, special, self-motivated children who do well in spite of everything.
These children are the exception rather than the rule.
The rule is this: Most children are lazy. Consequently, it does not matter how good the subject mater and teachers are if something or someone does not motivate the child to pay attention and learn. That someone is almost never the teacher. Except for the rare ones who are charismatic enough to inspire, they do not have the power to motivate students.
Bottom line: No school, no matter how good, can triumph over a lazy child. Only parents can do this.
>Not all conditions are nonsensical. An "if then" statement is used to express a condition. >Some conditions are relevant and some are not. What I said is very relevant. Subject matter >should be relevant, interesting, useful and fascinating. If it's not, it's not needed >in our lives and we will resist it (and win).
What you said is not relevant. If you wish to succeed in life you largely need good academic credentials. This means eating and digesting what they put before you and demonstrating some level of proficiency. It matters not if the student finds the material relevant, interesting, useful, or fascinating. What matters is demonstrating some level of proficiency. You may resist to your heart's content, but unless you can demonstrate some level of proficiency, you will not "win". You will fail.
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I take it the new microsoft ad is a stab at someone else's ad, but I haven't seen the other ad, so the Microsoft ad makes no sense to me.
It's a bunch of people claiming they are a computer. I don't get it.
>Why are you in the left lane in the first place?
To pass someone not driving the speed limit in the right lane.
>My personal opinion about your stance is: You appear to care (way) more about the arbitrary speed limit than
>about everyone else around you. My priority is the reverse: I care first and foremost about my surroundings,
>including all other drivers around me, and then about the speed limit. You are aware of the fact that
>frustrated drivers are more dangerous than those who are not? Right?
I will not risk getting a speeding ticket to salve other driver's frustration over not being able to exceed the speed limit.
My priorities are:
- First: Obey all traffic laws so as to avoid fines and penalties.
- Second: Get to my destination safely and quickly.
- Third: Other people's feelings.
The fact of the matter is, it takes "X" number of joules of energy to move your typical car 300 miles.
Whether that energy is stored in a tank of gasoline, a capacitor, batteries, or a spinning flywheel, you still have X number of joules of energy that have to be safely stored and protected against unrestrained liberation.
>I just guess no one is taught anymore that the left lane(s) are for passing,
>and if you're going slower than traffic around you, pull to the right and let them by.
The left lane is indeed for passing.
But the speed limit is the speed limit. It applies to all lanes, including the left one. If I'm in the left lane and doing at least the speed limit, people behind me just need to wait their turn until I can get back into the right lane again.
However, if you broke into the house, and while there you discovered a fire and rescued a child, chances are you'd still be arrested for breaking and entering, despite the fact that you did something nice in the process of breaking the law.
>Looking at your response, then, there seems to be no reason what-so-ever to be a white-hat.
Duh!
Would you? I wouldn't. Would I break the law and then hope people thank me for it instead of prosecute me for it, all to help my university? Fuck no.
Everyone knows no good deed goes unpunished. For good deeds done through illegal means the punishment is even more sure.
So yeah, if you're gonna hack, I hope you're getting something out of it - ass, money, personal satisfaction of dicking someone over, whatever. 'Cause altruism don't pay for shit.
The very fact that you had to provide wikipedia links to define Interferometry and Aperture Synthesis are precisely why the author of TFA did not use those terms to describe the telescope.
Steve
You know, every day it seems there is another article about some other exploit discovered. Given the fact that DRM has been demonstrated to be doomed, I think we are seeing that basically all security is doomed. I think we truly are on the cusp of zero privacy. Basically we are at the point now where if someone wants to know about your electronic data, they can do it.
If you need me, I'll be in my basement.
As long as it looks like her in a jump suit, I'd be all for it! :)
Some years ago I heard of an effort to create a massively multiplayer game based on WWII combat, where there would be ground, naval, and air components that would affect things on a "global" game scale.
Did anything ever come of this?
I think it would be very cool to be, for example, a fighter pilot in a WWII simulated world.
>New ways to teach it. At a minimum, you'd hope that they'd update the examples some time over the 400 years.
I took Calculus in the 1980s and 1990s, and I'm taking it again now as a refresher before going back for a second degree.
While there may have been new ways to teach it over 400 years, I can state that there is nothing different in the last 20.
I prefer to download it as a torrent - oh and the solution guide, too, for free.
Who prints them?
Calculus hasn't changed in like what, 400 years? And yet they keep coming up with new texts all the time. Why is this?
Whoever owns the moon owns the world. All you need do is toss rocks.
>Is that 16 Apollo launches or 16 times Apollo 8 through 17?
As other posters have already cited and said, the current Iraq war could have funded 16 ENTIRE APOLLO PROGRAMS, not launches, in today's dollars.
That means we could have gone to the moon nearly 100 times for the cost.
As I recall last time I did some Googling, for what we have spent on Iraq so far we could have had something like 16 Apollo programs in today's dollars.
Steve
Any time I get a hankering for a song at work I just search for it on YouTube. It usually has some smarmy homebrew video to go with the music, but I minimize the window and just listen to the song.
YouTube is like a jukebox.
If you are going to scream into the ether, for whatever reason, then I should be able to record it for my own personal use.
>I can't wait until somebody finally gets around to making a full EV car that
>seats two with ABS and Airbags, PS, Heat and AC, even if it only goes 100 miles.
>If they can do it under $25k I'm there with cash in hand.
This, of course, is the big problem.
What The People want is a commuter car. They are willing to sacrifice on range and amenities, BUT they are going to expect the PRICE to be less for that sacrifice. Basically they are going to expect motorcycle prices for what amounts to a covered motorcycle.
But the car companies don't want to sell $10-$20K cars. The profit margins aren't nearly as nice as on $30-$40K SUVs and trucks.
Now you might say that the car companies will simply keep the prices artificially high. The problem here is that the barrier of entry to get into this micro-car business is not so high anymore. There are several EV car manufacturers getting off the ground now that are primed to hit this small commuter car market.
If the big car companies don't get with the program very fast, they are going to get their lunch eaten.
It seems to me that stopping doping a lot like stopping piracy. It's just not going to happen.
I suppose we could adopt an "anything goes" attitude, but what then would be the point of sports contests? To see who has the best experimental biology funding?
What it tells me is that contests of physical prowess are no longer exciting exhibits of natural talent. I have never found watching other people play games exciting anyway, but I certainly won't be interested in watching the outcome of who can afford the most sophisticated body modifications.
I didn't get the connection to leaves and electrolysis. What's the connection?
>Parents can cajole, entice, persuade, experiment, and threaten. I don't know where you live, but most
>states I've been in do not allow 'unlimited spanking'.
I live in Alabama. I have no idea what the law is here, nor where I grew up, but my parents spanked (and slapped) me whenever and wherever they thought it was appropriate. I don't believe in slapping, but I will spank my child whenever I think it is appropriate without regard to what the State thinks about it.
>At most the parents can force external behavior
>changes. But I believe only the individual can motivate herself.
As long as the deed is done it really doesn't matter. I may not have been motivated in school, but I did what was required to satisfy the demands of my parents.
>So I am suspicious when someone says 'parents need to be more involved' as if that is the end of the discussion.
>It's similar to the doctors telling people to cut out fatty food for decades and we still have an obesity problem.
>Now cities are trying a trans-fat ban. Let's see if that helps. It's worth a try.
It should be the end of the discussion, as it should be fairly obvious what sort of involvement is required. Children will usually rise to the expectation of their parents. Parents need to monitor academic progress, be in regular communication with the child's teachers, and make required academic benchmarks known to the child and use positive and negative rewards to compel achieving those benchmarks.
In short, parents must explicitly define required academic performance, and enforce consequences if that performance is not met. No teacher can do this.
>We need to start with Who we have now and Where we are at now. What I want to ask is, given the current level
>of parental involvement, WHAT is the proper role for the staff of the school? Are we willing to
>pay for it? Otherwise, it's just complaining about the weather.
The proper role for the staff of the school is to present academic material and test proficiency in that material, and we already pay for it.
>Maybe history isn't good for children?
I have wondered this myself many times.
>I disagree. The school has to be good first and foremost. I've seen orphans and
>single-delinquent-parent children do well when subject matter and teachers were appropriate.
I do not dispute that there are rare, special, self-motivated children who do well in spite of everything.
These children are the exception rather than the rule.
The rule is this: Most children are lazy. Consequently, it does not matter how good the subject mater and teachers are if something or someone does not motivate the child to pay attention and learn. That someone is almost never the teacher. Except for the rare ones who are charismatic enough to inspire, they do not have the power to motivate students.
Bottom line: No school, no matter how good, can triumph over a lazy child. Only parents can do this.
>Not all conditions are nonsensical. An "if then" statement is used to express a condition.
>Some conditions are relevant and some are not. What I said is very relevant. Subject matter
>should be relevant, interesting, useful and fascinating. If it's not, it's not needed
>in our lives and we will resist it (and win).
What you said is not relevant. If you wish to succeed in life you largely need good academic credentials. This means eating and digesting what they put before you and demonstrating some level of proficiency. It matters not if the student finds the material relevant, interesting, useful, or fascinating. What matters is demonstrating some level of proficiency. You may resist to your heart's content, but unless you can demonstrate some level of proficiency, you will not "win". You will fail.