I can find accurate information much, much, much faster than I could in 1980.
So in terms of acquiring information, which is a precursor to acquiring knowledge, we are light-years ahead of where we were in 1980.
Now in terms of using technology to CONVEY information, I agree, we have lagged.
For example, in my view the presentation of Calculus has not changed much since its inception some 400 years ago. One of the biggest problems with the presentation is that we fail to bridge the gap between understanding of the abstract mathematical formulas and the concrete visualization of what they describe.
I firmly believe that computer graphics could help fill this gap but my professors still slog through crude chalk-board sketches trying to convey the concepts of area, volume, curvature, surfaces, rates of change, etc.
Every time I'm presented with a formula I'm doing mental tricks plugging in values for X & Y trying to visualize it. Computers could help here.
>Was mining the sea a shortsighted endeavor that ultimately caused more harm than what was being prevented (invasion)?
Mines were, and continue to be, cheap and effective area denial weapons.
When used at sea, they ensnare the unwary, and, once the position of the minefield becomes known to your enemy, diverts enemy traffic into places more convenient for you.
This has been sufficient justification for their use for about a hundred years or so.
Being the one usually getting hit.
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Since I was the one usually getting hit, frankly I dont' wouldn't care what they are were hunched down on as long as it isn't me.
>How about you try to think of a way of addressing this problem which doesn't >hold the victim responsible for their own victimisation?
I don't think there is such a way.
I was bullied terribly as a kid. And unlike those in the article, the consequence for me was that I developed FANTASTIC people-reading skills as a result. I was CONSTANTLY on guard for who would be picking on my next, and what little detail of my behavior might be the next excuse for me being different.
I also believe, as other posters have said, that the only real response is to stand up for yourself violently. You are right, there will be some who simply are unable to do so, and for them, that sucks real bad. But for those who can, they should.
Because I don't think there is anything else you can do. You cannot tell an adult. Telling an adult, even if the adult bothers to get involved, will simply get you labeled as a tattle-tale, which will ratchet up the bullying, only now it will be anonymous. For example, you will be walking down the hall when your books suddenly go flying, and when you turn around no one will indicate who did it, but all will be smirking about it. Or your ear will be painfully thumped and when you turn around everyone is all innocent-eyed. Or you will find nasty little anonymous notes about your penis size taped to the back of your clothes.
I told my mother about getting picked on on the school bus. So one afternoon she got on the school bus and told all the kids to stop. What do you suppose the effect of this was? Do you think it made the bullying stop, or rather made the bullying increase because I had to have my mommy come deal with my problems for me?
I told my mother about getting picked on in math class. So one day she came and sat in on my math class. Of course I did not say a WORD that it was MY mother but the bullies suspected. And so the bullying all went underground so it could not be pinned on them.
I get most of my online "news" from news aggregators and social websites where friends have provided links to things to read.
If sites start charging for content, they will drop off of the aggregators and my friends will stop posting links because even if they can read them they will know that their friends probably don't. Thus the pay sites will drop out of my visibility.
If it is important enough, someone will copy-and-paste it.
Well I do try not to be judgmental, especially about things that don't affect me. But it's hard to counter natural revulsion. When I see roadkill with it's guts squished out on the pavement, I have this natural revulsion reaction. I just find it gross. I'm not judging the roadkill, or the person who made it, or the people who made the road, I just find the roadkill disgusting.
It's much the same way when I view a video where a woman ends up with a big pile of goo on her face.
You know how it's gross when people sneeze and accidentally blow snot all over their faces? Well that's how I feel when I see semen all over someone's face.
And because I find it gross, when you see someone intentionally doing it to someone else, I naturally find this degrading. It would be like someone pissing on someone else. (And yes, I realize there are people who seem to enjoy that, too)
But you are probably right. There are probably lots of women out there who enjoy it. Perhaps they enjoy pleasing their man. Perhaps they enjoy being subservient. Perhaps they just enjoy gooey snot-like stuff being smeared on their faces.
When I was in college we had one of those BIG satellite dishes. This was around 1989. We got a channel called "American XXXtacy" or something like that.
The standard cum shot them was for the guy to pull out and jizz on the woman's stomach.
Speaking of money shots, why is it currently in vogue to finish all sex scenes by having the man ejaculate in the mouth and all over the face of the woman?
Does anyone find this a turn-on? To me, it's gross and degrading. I love looking at nekkid women, but I'll pass on the blowjob and cum-on-the-face scenes. Lack of empathy, I guess.
>They are transferring the efforts of my labor, my training, and such, to someone >else because of what? Really? Where in the hell is the justification for this?
The justification is to foster a revolution in transportation technology, that may result in cleaner, oil-independent vehicles in the long run.
I realized after I submitted my article that I don't really need handwriting "recognition". What I want is the ability to write on digital paper in my own handwriting. As long as I can read the resultant document, that's good enough for me.
Handwriting recognition would be nice, because perhaps it could turn my notes into something more legible and sharable with others.
I've seen the product you are speaking of, and it was clever. Basically you would draw on special graph paper, and by touching symbols at the bottom of the page the pen would know it was time to record audio, or an annotation, or whatever.
The problem with it is that at the end of the day it is still a real pen and paper. A notebook is still going to be a physical notebook limited in size and capacity as a normal notebook. Yes, it is clever that you can annotate things to it, and even download the notes into a computer, but I'm stuck with real paper for the data entry. I want to skip the paper and draw right on-screen.
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Because it's bad-ass, just like this was.
1:54 is really the sole reason we explore space.
The key is corroboration. This is also much faster today than in 1980.
I find myself feeling pretty confident in the accuracy of acquired information pretty quickly, in spite of the inaccurate information out there.
Why can't you vote?
I can find accurate information much, much, much faster than I could in 1980.
So in terms of acquiring information, which is a precursor to acquiring knowledge, we are light-years ahead of where we were in 1980.
Now in terms of using technology to CONVEY information, I agree, we have lagged.
For example, in my view the presentation of Calculus has not changed much since its inception some 400 years ago. One of the biggest problems with the presentation is that we fail to bridge the gap between understanding of the abstract mathematical formulas and the concrete visualization of what they describe.
I firmly believe that computer graphics could help fill this gap but my professors still slog through crude chalk-board sketches trying to convey the concepts of area, volume, curvature, surfaces, rates of change, etc.
Every time I'm presented with a formula I'm doing mental tricks plugging in values for X & Y trying to visualize it. Computers could help here.
>Was mining the sea a shortsighted endeavor that ultimately caused more harm than what was being prevented (invasion)?
Mines were, and continue to be, cheap and effective area denial weapons.
When used at sea, they ensnare the unwary, and, once the position of the minefield becomes known to your enemy, diverts enemy traffic into places more convenient for you.
This has been sufficient justification for their use for about a hundred years or so.
Since I was the one usually getting hit, frankly I dont' wouldn't care what they are were hunched down on as long as it isn't me.
To say, "they were just doing a job" puts walking on the moon on the same relative plane as digging a ditch.
How does one become so jaded? Does it take a long time?
Well, they were more amazing than you.
>How about you try to think of a way of addressing this problem which doesn't
>hold the victim responsible for their own victimisation?
I don't think there is such a way.
I was bullied terribly as a kid. And unlike those in the article, the consequence for me was that I developed FANTASTIC people-reading skills as a result. I was CONSTANTLY on guard for who would be picking on my next, and what little detail of my behavior might be the next excuse for me being different.
I also believe, as other posters have said, that the only real response is to stand up for yourself violently. You are right, there will be some who simply are unable to do so, and for them, that sucks real bad. But for those who can, they should.
Because I don't think there is anything else you can do. You cannot tell an adult. Telling an adult, even if the adult bothers to get involved, will simply get you labeled as a tattle-tale, which will ratchet up the bullying, only now it will be anonymous. For example, you will be walking down the hall when your books suddenly go flying, and when you turn around no one will indicate who did it, but all will be smirking about it. Or your ear will be painfully thumped and when you turn around everyone is all innocent-eyed. Or you will find nasty little anonymous notes about your penis size taped to the back of your clothes.
I told my mother about getting picked on on the school bus. So one afternoon she got on the school bus and told all the kids to stop. What do you suppose the effect of this was? Do you think it made the bullying stop, or rather made the bullying increase because I had to have my mommy come deal with my problems for me?
I told my mother about getting picked on in math class. So one day she came and sat in on my math class. Of course I did not say a WORD that it was MY mother but the bullies suspected. And so the bullying all went underground so it could not be pinned on them.
I should have fought back.
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>You Americans are rather melodramatic about this entire event...have you every tried to consider why?
Because space exploration is fucking awesome, represents the height of human achievement, and the timeless urge of mankind to explore.
These people died doing something amazing, and thus they too were amazing.
If the test labels you as having PTSD, what will become of you? For example, will you forfeit your second amendment rights?
Hey, I sound like Rush Limbaugh already! :)
I get most of my online "news" from news aggregators and social websites where friends have provided links to things to read.
If sites start charging for content, they will drop off of the aggregators and my friends will stop posting links because even if they can read them they will know that their friends probably don't. Thus the pay sites will drop out of my visibility.
If it is important enough, someone will copy-and-paste it.
Try reading that again, sport. I'm comparing cum on someone's face to roadkill and being urinated on.
Well I do try not to be judgmental, especially about things that don't affect me. But it's hard to counter natural revulsion. When I see roadkill with it's guts squished out on the pavement, I have this natural revulsion reaction. I just find it gross. I'm not judging the roadkill, or the person who made it, or the people who made the road, I just find the roadkill disgusting.
It's much the same way when I view a video where a woman ends up with a big pile of goo on her face.
You know how it's gross when people sneeze and accidentally blow snot all over their faces? Well that's how I feel when I see semen all over someone's face.
And because I find it gross, when you see someone intentionally doing it to someone else, I naturally find this degrading. It would be like someone pissing on someone else. (And yes, I realize there are people who seem to enjoy that, too)
But you are probably right. There are probably lots of women out there who enjoy it. Perhaps they enjoy pleasing their man. Perhaps they enjoy being subservient. Perhaps they just enjoy gooey snot-like stuff being smeared on their faces.
So knock yourselves out! It's no cum off my nose.
When I was in college we had one of those BIG satellite dishes. This was around 1989. We got a channel called "American XXXtacy" or something like that.
The standard cum shot them was for the guy to pull out and jizz on the woman's stomach.
I'm assuming this was satire. I hate satire. I hate having to reverse-decode everything someone says. Anyways.
I've long held that the only answer to pervasive surveillance is to encrypt everything.
It won't stop them from cracking things that attract their attention, but for most things it won't be worth the hassle.
Encrypt everything.
Speaking of money shots, why is it currently in vogue to finish all sex scenes by having the man ejaculate in the mouth and all over the face of the woman?
Does anyone find this a turn-on? To me, it's gross and degrading. I love looking at nekkid women, but I'll pass on the blowjob and cum-on-the-face scenes. Lack of empathy, I guess.
>They are transferring the efforts of my labor, my training, and such, to someone
>else because of what? Really? Where in the hell is the justification for this?
The justification is to foster a revolution in transportation technology, that may result in cleaner, oil-independent vehicles in the long run.
I'd say that was a pretty good justification.
I realized after I submitted my article that I don't really need handwriting "recognition". What I want is the ability to write on digital paper in my own handwriting. As long as I can read the resultant document, that's good enough for me.
Handwriting recognition would be nice, because perhaps it could turn my notes into something more legible and sharable with others.
But really, I just want digital notepaper.
The last time I looked for these sorts of things they cost in excess of $1000.
I've seen the product you are speaking of, and it was clever. Basically you would draw on special graph paper, and by touching symbols at the bottom of the page the pen would know it was time to record audio, or an annotation, or whatever.
The problem with it is that at the end of the day it is still a real pen and paper. A notebook is still going to be a physical notebook limited in size and capacity as a normal notebook. Yes, it is clever that you can annotate things to it, and even download the notes into a computer, but I'm stuck with real paper for the data entry. I want to skip the paper and draw right on-screen.