I am. Clickbait does nothing but waste one's time. I've gotten to where I never click a link in facebook, especially ones that facebook "suggests", because every single God damned one of them are worth less than nothing.
I laughed at the slashdot headline. Facebook fighting clickbait? That's like a coal-fired power plant fighting global warming. CLICKBAIT IS WHY PEOPLE BUY STOCK ON FACEBOOK. Their entire business model is based on clickbait.
self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
All if which are payments. The original meaning of the word was from show business and carnivals. A magician's shill was the guy who came up to the stage when the magician asked for a volunteer. Unknown to the rest of the audience, he was part of the act and in on it.
It may be a typo caused by not hitting the space bar hard enough, but you might want to look up "lookup".
I'm a Sanders supporter, but there's no way in hell I could vote for a blustering bully, braggart, and liar who tried to use eminent domain to evict a widow from her home so he could make a shitload of money... then there's Cruz, a real nut job.
I don't think Hillary will be a good POTUS, but then, I thought the same about her husband and voted against him in his first term, but he did a good job so I voted for him in the re-election. With Hillary I can at least be hopeful, but I'm sure a Trump or Cruz presidency will ruin this country for the 99% of us.
I assume English is a second language to you, since you obviously don't understand the meaning of "shill". ALL shills are paid! If you're not getting paid, you're NOT a shill.
FINALLY an intelligent comment. My take isn't that the law of conservation of momentum is completely wrong, simply not yet fully understood. And the speed of light is variable; or there would be no such thing as refraction. I doubt it's variable in the same medium, though.
But shitty comments. The above AC is the first on-topic post in the thread, as usual starting with a stupid joke morons think is funny and getting worse as you scroll.
I guess I forgot that Dice wasn't thye only reason I abandoned/. (except the journals, most people are on-topic there).
If you have mod points, please mod me offtpic, as well as every poster above except the AC I responded to DAMN IT, FOLKS, I CAME HERE FOR INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION, NOT STUPID JOKES FROM GEEK WANNABES!!
Back to S/N I guess, far more intelligence over there.
It depends on your carrier. I pay a flat $42 for my cell phone, and that's unlimited everything including data. My internet bill for the computers is $50.
If I read that I would assume that it was indeed $1,200.00, as I have no idea what chips cost back then. I did stand in the middle of a computer in 1972, one that ran a C5-A simulator. Picture a library with printed circuit boards instead of books.
If I'd had to buy all the books I've read I wouldn't have been able to read 99.99% of what I've read. When I was about 12 I'd visit the library daily and bring half a dozen books home.
I don't think e-books should cost, because you don't actually OWN anything (I give my own e-books away for free on my web site). Reading has always been free. Physical objects have monetary value, virtual objects like e-books and MP3s can't be legally given away or resold, so are completely valueless in a monetary sense.
Not sure why maybe some articles about auditory reading not being optimal although still faster than what you seem at bad readers - they try to speak out words they read in their minds - that is the slowest.
I maintain that if you sound out the words, you're not really reading. Reading is much deeper than that. Reading Asimov's Youth a true reader doesn't hear the words "There was a spatter of pebbles against the window and the youngster stirred in his sleep. Another, and he was awake." Rather, he hears the pebbles on the window and sees the kid stirring in his sleep, then waking up.
I feel sorry for those who move their lips when they read.
I'm the opposite. Although I read very fast ("The Green Mile" took a few hours) it sticks. But show me a photodocumentary or a talking head and it will NOT stay in my brain at all.
I don't think you can pin a number on "speed reading". I took a speed reading class in college, and went in reading faster than anyone else came out of it reading. It did triple my reading speed at a slight decrease in comprehension.
It took me less time to read True Grit than to watch either movie (the book sucked).
Thanks. I'm not afraid of dying, as I stood at death's door 40 years ago this past January and know it's a beginning, not an end. But I still have a few things on my bucket list, like winning a Hugo and a Nebula and a Campbell, and I'm not even eligible for a Nebula yet (have to sell 3 stories)
I was puzzled by an April Fool "Achievement: Member of the 10001 Digit (binary) UID Club" message. Um, it's been a while since I did any programming but isn't 5 decimal for 101? Is there a number system wher 10001 equals decimal 5?
1. No alarm clock. This is heaven to me! 2. People call you "sir" without asking if you want fries with that 3. You've done so much dumb shit you're good at NOT doing dumb shit any more 4. YOU GOT TO WATCH THE FIRST MOON LANDING! LIVE!
"This is news? I know there's always this delusional part of the population that says they feel better at 40 than at 20, but they're idiots" says the twenty year old with no possibility of a clue.
There's nothing glorious about grey hair, bald spots, high blood pressure Yeah, my hair's gray, but I have no bald spots, and in fact my dad died with a full head of hair at age 84 (cancer cause by PCBs, dioxin, and tobacco; he was an electrical lineman. None of his co-workers made it past 60).
And rather than high blood pressure, by pressure is lower than the average 30 year old and I'm more than twice that old.
That's what is wrong with this "old man suit". It's simulating being an unhealthy old man. There are plenty of 85 year olds out there who are still strong and have a lot of pep. It's all a matter of how well you treat your body.
That's the biggest myth of this generation. "Eat right and exercise and you'll live forever." Poor nutrition and lack of exercise will age you more quickly, but the number one indicator of how long you'll live is how long your grandparents lived. If your grandparents all died of natural causes before age 70, don't expect to make it to 85 no matter how much you exercise or how you eat.
More wrong with this stupid suit: How does it address "senior moments" when you forgot what you were talking about in the middle of a sentence? Have a bunch of pot smoke blowing in?
An AC mentioned that "everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, leaks". How are going to simulate that? Beat the hell out of you before you put the suit on, then feed you laxatives and something to make your urinary muscles less responsive?
Lots of folks have breathing problems in old age, my 88 year old mother does (as does a friend who is younger than me). How does this suit cut down on your efforts to breathe?
In short, this suit is worthless and its inventor is an idiot.
A substantial portion of the readers of Slashdot are already well aware of how the ypotame of age hits you, squarely in the tummy, before jumping all over you.
That sentence is meaningless without knowing what ypotame is, and google has no answers as to its meaning. Do I need to use some obscure dictionary, say, Swahili/English or something?
Slashdot needs a "this post is completely incomprehensible" moderation.
Surprising. Frederik Pohl wrote for longer than that. His works spanned 75 years. He was ninety four when he published his last novel.
Personally, I'm not in any hurry to " get out of the way and make room for the next person". At 64 (as of today) I'm having the time of my life. No alarm clock after a lifetime of alarm clocks. Unlimited time to read, to write, to learn, to teach, to create.
When she was 95 my grandmother told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred. It ain't no fun bein' old." She lived five more miserable years. When I reach that point I'll be looking forward to paradise, but until then, well, as long as I'm happy why would I want to leave?
Seen on facebook: "Birthdays are like boogers. The more you have, the harder it is to breathe".
The dummy who came up with this stupid suit doesn't know many elderly, because WE ALL AGE AT DIFFERENT RATES. My mother is 88. She goes bowling twice a week, has no hearing problems and gets around easily. Meanwhile I know a woman who's 70 who looks older than my mom (Mom's brother is in his late nineties). A couple years ago before I retired they had a health screening at work. My vitals were those of a healthy forty year old, and I was 61.
Eyesight? I had cataract surgery on my left eye in 2006 and have better than 20-20 at all distances. Steroids caused it, will need the other eye done some time.
CBS News had a thing about aging a couple months ago saying that a forty year old should be able to sit on the floor and get up using only one hand. Gail Norris couldn't do it with both hands and needed help getting up, I can get up with no hands needed and I'm 20 years older than her.
As to being in pain, I've had arthritis since my teens. It was at its worst from 1971-1973 when I was stationed in that God-forsaken Delaware.
I do get "senior moments". It's like being stoned without smoking any pot. "Uh, what were we talking about again?"
This story fits today perfectly - it's my 64th birthday.
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I'm not sure that clickbait is inherently bad
I am. Clickbait does nothing but waste one's time. I've gotten to where I never click a link in facebook, especially ones that facebook "suggests", because every single God damned one of them are worth less than nothing.
I laughed at the slashdot headline. Facebook fighting clickbait? That's like a coal-fired power plant fighting global warming. CLICKBAIT IS WHY PEOPLE BUY STOCK ON FACEBOOK. Their entire business model is based on clickbait.
self-interest, personal profit, or friendship or loyalty.
All if which are payments. The original meaning of the word was from show business and carnivals. A magician's shill was the guy who came up to the stage when the magician asked for a volunteer. Unknown to the rest of the audience, he was part of the act and in on it.
It may be a typo caused by not hitting the space bar hard enough, but you might want to look up "lookup".
I'm a Sanders supporter, but there's no way in hell I could vote for a blustering bully, braggart, and liar who tried to use eminent domain to evict a widow from her home so he could make a shitload of money... then there's Cruz, a real nut job.
I don't think Hillary will be a good POTUS, but then, I thought the same about her husband and voted against him in his first term, but he did a good job so I voted for him in the re-election. With Hillary I can at least be hopeful, but I'm sure a Trump or Cruz presidency will ruin this country for the 99% of us.
I assume English is a second language to you, since you obviously don't understand the meaning of "shill". ALL shills are paid! If you're not getting paid, you're NOT a shill.
Look it up, son.
FINALLY an intelligent comment. My take isn't that the law of conservation of momentum is completely wrong, simply not yet fully understood. And the speed of light is variable; or there would be no such thing as refraction. I doubt it's variable in the same medium, though.
So did I. Did no one with a sense of humor have mod points today?
But shitty comments. The above AC is the first on-topic post in the thread, as usual starting with a stupid joke morons think is funny and getting worse as you scroll.
I guess I forgot that Dice wasn't thye only reason I abandoned /. (except the journals, most people are on-topic there).
If you have mod points, please mod me offtpic, as well as every poster above except the AC I responded to DAMN IT, FOLKS, I CAME HERE FOR INTELLIGENT DISCUSSION, NOT STUPID JOKES FROM GEEK WANNABES!!
Back to S/N I guess, far more intelligence over there.
I was married and I have two grown daughters. A childless couple needs no more phones or food than the widow with a teenager.
It depends on your carrier. I pay a flat $42 for my cell phone, and that's unlimited everything including data. My internet bill for the computers is $50.
how do you know that people reading out loud can't also see and hear what's going on in their minds?
Because I wasn't born with the ability to read and can remember not knowing how, and can remember learning.
If I read that I would assume that it was indeed $1,200.00, as I have no idea what chips cost back then. I did stand in the middle of a computer in 1972, one that ran a C5-A simulator. Picture a library with printed circuit boards instead of books.
If I'd had to buy all the books I've read I wouldn't have been able to read 99.99% of what I've read. When I was about 12 I'd visit the library daily and bring half a dozen books home.
I don't think e-books should cost, because you don't actually OWN anything (I give my own e-books away for free on my web site). Reading has always been free. Physical objects have monetary value, virtual objects like e-books and MP3s can't be legally given away or resold, so are completely valueless in a monetary sense.
Not sure why maybe some articles about auditory reading not being optimal although still faster than what you seem at bad readers - they try to speak out words they read in their minds - that is the slowest.
I maintain that if you sound out the words, you're not really reading. Reading is much deeper than that. Reading Asimov's Youth a true reader doesn't hear the words "There was a spatter of pebbles against the window and the youngster stirred in his sleep. Another, and he was awake." Rather, he hears the pebbles on the window and sees the kid stirring in his sleep, then waking up.
I feel sorry for those who move their lips when they read.
I'm the opposite. Although I read very fast ("The Green Mile" took a few hours) it sticks. But show me a photodocumentary or a talking head and it will NOT stay in my brain at all.
I don't think you can pin a number on "speed reading". I took a speed reading class in college, and went in reading faster than anyone else came out of it reading. It did triple my reading speed at a slight decrease in comprehension.
It took me less time to read True Grit than to watch either movie (the book sucked).
Thanks. I'm not afraid of dying, as I stood at death's door 40 years ago this past January and know it's a beginning, not an end. But I still have a few things on my bucket list, like winning a Hugo and a Nebula and a Campbell, and I'm not even eligible for a Nebula yet (have to sell 3 stories)
Thanks! It would have been happier if I hadn't been getting over the flu.
I was puzzled by an April Fool "Achievement: Member of the 10001 Digit (binary) UID Club" message. Um, it's been a while since I did any programming but isn't 5 decimal for 101? Is there a number system wher 10001 equals decimal 5?
Senior discounts are the least of the benefits.
1. No alarm clock. This is heaven to me!
2. People call you "sir" without asking if you want fries with that
3. You've done so much dumb shit you're good at NOT doing dumb shit any more
4. YOU GOT TO WATCH THE FIRST MOON LANDING! LIVE!
Suck it up, youngsters.
"This is news? I know there's always this delusional part of the population that says they feel better at 40 than at 20, but they're idiots" says the twenty year old with no possibility of a clue.
There's nothing glorious about grey hair, bald spots, high blood pressure Yeah, my hair's gray, but I have no bald spots, and in fact my dad died with a full head of hair at age 84 (cancer cause by PCBs, dioxin, and tobacco; he was an electrical lineman. None of his co-workers made it past 60).
And rather than high blood pressure, by pressure is lower than the average 30 year old and I'm more than twice that old.
Everyone is different. One size never fits all.
That's what is wrong with this "old man suit". It's simulating being an unhealthy old man. There are plenty of 85 year olds out there who are still strong and have a lot of pep. It's all a matter of how well you treat your body.
That's the biggest myth of this generation. "Eat right and exercise and you'll live forever." Poor nutrition and lack of exercise will age you more quickly, but the number one indicator of how long you'll live is how long your grandparents lived. If your grandparents all died of natural causes before age 70, don't expect to make it to 85 no matter how much you exercise or how you eat.
More wrong with this stupid suit: How does it address "senior moments" when you forgot what you were talking about in the middle of a sentence? Have a bunch of pot smoke blowing in?
An AC mentioned that "everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, leaks". How are going to simulate that? Beat the hell out of you before you put the suit on, then feed you laxatives and something to make your urinary muscles less responsive?
Lots of folks have breathing problems in old age, my 88 year old mother does (as does a friend who is younger than me). How does this suit cut down on your efforts to breathe?
In short, this suit is worthless and its inventor is an idiot.
A substantial portion of the readers of Slashdot are already well aware of how the ypotame of age hits you, squarely in the tummy, before jumping all over you.
That sentence is meaningless without knowing what ypotame is, and google has no answers as to its meaning. Do I need to use some obscure dictionary, say, Swahili/English or something?
Slashdot needs a "this post is completely incomprehensible" moderation.
Cialis doesn't work when you're drinking, and that's the only time I ever get laid.
Surprising. Frederik Pohl wrote for longer than that. His works spanned 75 years. He was ninety four when he published his last novel.
Personally, I'm not in any hurry to " get out of the way and make room for the next person". At 64 (as of today) I'm having the time of my life. No alarm clock after a lifetime of alarm clocks. Unlimited time to read, to write, to learn, to teach, to create.
When she was 95 my grandmother told me "I don't know why anybody wants to live to be a hundred. It ain't no fun bein' old." She lived five more miserable years. When I reach that point I'll be looking forward to paradise, but until then, well, as long as I'm happy why would I want to leave?
Seen on facebook: "Birthdays are like boogers. The more you have, the harder it is to breathe".
The dummy who came up with this stupid suit doesn't know many elderly, because WE ALL AGE AT DIFFERENT RATES. My mother is 88. She goes bowling twice a week, has no hearing problems and gets around easily. Meanwhile I know a woman who's 70 who looks older than my mom (Mom's brother is in his late nineties). A couple years ago before I retired they had a health screening at work. My vitals were those of a healthy forty year old, and I was 61.
Eyesight? I had cataract surgery on my left eye in 2006 and have better than 20-20 at all distances. Steroids caused it, will need the other eye done some time.
CBS News had a thing about aging a couple months ago saying that a forty year old should be able to sit on the floor and get up using only one hand. Gail Norris couldn't do it with both hands and needed help getting up, I can get up with no hands needed and I'm 20 years older than her.
As to being in pain, I've had arthritis since my teens. It was at its worst from 1971-1973 when I was stationed in that God-forsaken Delaware.
I do get "senior moments". It's like being stoned without smoking any pot. "Uh, what were we talking about again?"
This story fits today perfectly - it's my 64th birthday.