Funny, because the point you're trying to make about TV shows easily turns against itself. House is a genius, a genius at diagnostics, one we can expect to be quite rare in nature, and surrounded by competent specialists. And yet during most of the episode, which in the show's world time is up to a few days, the doctors in question, including the genius of diagnostics, have no fucking clue what the patient has. Not only that, but you see them going through trial and error and going at great length to attempt to figure out what on Earth the patient has.
So if anything it rather shows you how hard it can be for even a specialist to really know what's the matter with you, and how unreliable what they come up with can be, even for the best of them.
You're assuming that the workers in questions wouldn't be unemployed to begin with. If you go with poor unemployed people and give them a job, even one that won't produce a cent of added value, what you do is that you keep them away from poverty, drugs, bad loans, you enable them to send their kids to better schools than if they stayed poor, hence making them better educated people who will produce more money once they work, who will stay away from crime, drugs, AIDS, and so on... By paying people at doing nothing valuable, you pay them at staying afloat, at not sinking down social classes. If you keep one million people afloat for 2 years until the economy gets better, at the end of the two years you'll have 1 million middle class people who buy, work, invest. If you don't, you'll have a burden of 1 million hobos to take care of. There's a reason why we all live in welfare states.
Contrarily to what most people think, the lesson to be learnt from the broken window fallacy isn't what the fallacy directly tells you, but that you need to examine the ramifications that do not immediately spring to the eye in such intricate questions as the socio-economical effect of anything. It's often hard to get deep enough in the ramifications of the implications of something to tell for sure what the net effects are, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can't rely on the conclusions that are immediately obvious.
The problem you're mentioning really comes from a void that health insurances fill. Where I'm from, in France, you don't need an health insurance. Everything you really need, the state will reimburse. You go to the doctor, sure, you pay 20 euros, which will be reimbursed. You buy your prescribed medicine, again, all reimbursed provided it's not some homoeopathic crap and that you take the generic version of a medicine.
Yep, it costs the taxpayer some money, but it fucking works, and it's overall less money paid by citizens than the billions dumped each year into health insurances in America.
I'm sure I'd get attacked on ideological grounds for claiming that, but the solution is simply for the state to take care of everybody's good health, no health insurance needed. But apparently in America, people's little personal anti-Marxist ideology left over from the Cold War is more important than the cost of their own health.
That's what annoys me about the trend of big studio games, it's like the more money you throw at a production, the more it's gonna have to look like a movie. Take GTA IV for example. It's just a huge movie in which you get to partially play the scenes and dick around pointlessly in between scenes for the sake of fun or boredom.
Yeah, it's a great game, but it tries to hard to be just like a movie, so hard it ruins the fun. "You failed the mission? Yay, you get to try it over and over again until you succeed! Linearity baby!" or even "Oh wait, you can't swim to that part of the city quite yet or we'll send every NPC we have to take you down cause we don't want you to go there before our linear story takes you there".
It's not all bad, but it's a shame we should project the characteristics of a media/form of art onto another just because we can't rethink the way to do things and exploit the new advantages of the new medium.
Yes, opened a bunch of tabs, like 40 Outlook and Thunderbird compose mail windows with spam messages in them, videos (that wouldn't open) in VLC, a crapload of telnet windows, that kind of crap..
Damnit, I actually had to pull the plug, the ethernet one then the power one.. how can Firefox by default let all that shit happen just by visiting a webpage?
Oh and the "shock" image is a guy sodomising his own self. Never saw that before, I always suspected it could probably be done, but never saw it..
Left 4 Dead was scary? Seriously?? It just sounded like a fun "hey let's kill a hundred of NPCs a minute" type of game to me. You know what game was really scary to me? Duke Nukem 3D, for its Octabrain. If you wanna make it scary, you need a monster slightly taller than you, very ugly, that dwells in the dark or underwater, that screams in a scary way and that you can't get rid of easily.
Zombies aren't scary, mostly when you're pointing a shotgun at them.
By the way, are there any good modern 3D games that exploit the concept of 3D Monster Maze? Trying to run and hide unarmed from a monster who's after you is awesome, but few 3D games from 1981 live up to my modern expectations.
Yeah, great job guys, way to know how to use the Internet.
They wrote, falsely, that Heller has herpes and had bribed her way into Yaleâ"helped by a secret lesbian affair with the dean of admissionsâ"and that Iravani has gonorrhea, is addicted to heroin, and had exchanged oral sex with Yale Law Schoolâ(TM)s dean for a passing grade in civil procedure.
And? Is there anyone stupid enough in Yale or in related circles to believe such claims from our beloved Anonymous under such pseudonyms as "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey, The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah, hitlerhitlerhitler, Dirty Nigger, Sleazy Z, stanfordtroll, lonelyvirgin, Yalels2009, ak47"?
I mean shit, this is the fucking Internet, if you're gonna sue any Anonymous who's gonna call you a fag, then Kanye West has a whole world to sue.
lol. Are you trying to be funny? The agenda that the French president and the recording industry try to push hardly benefits artists. What do you think, that the RIAA is fighting tooth and nail just so your favourite electrohouse artist can get a bigger pay cheque? What Sarkozy does doesn't benefit them, and they know that. That means they're not as stupid as you rushed to claim, how shocking!
TFA says it works by "modeling" the distribution of the star's light halo and subtracting that modeled glow from the actual image. So basically it's just like fitting a radial distribution on the star and subtracting, am I right? We couldn't do that ten years ago? I hope there's more to it, and if there is, I'd be interested to hear more about it.
Thanks for your insight, but don't you understand that people appreciate recognizing their own traits in their offsprings? You know, like, stuff in common. I mean, an adopted kid is pretty much a totally random kid, a biological offspring is still kind of random, but at least they have something special in common with you to begin with, they look like you, they have abilities in common, and so on..
Plus, when you don't self loathe yourself, and think yourself as someone great, and think the same about the person you want to reproduce with, then the idea of a genetical combination of the two of you sounds like it should give a nice result.
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I'd quite like a Versace son.
If Versace was still alive, straight, and your wife was hot, I guess it could be arranged.
No, you're just falling for the way the summary spins the story. How the fuck do you go from screening embryos to "mass market items" anyways? It doesn't change anything to the way people decide to have them or raise them anyways, besides, if you're worried about that you should be worried about people who reproduce for worse reasons, like people who make lots of kids to get welfare checks, but more importantly to people to support them when they get older.
Why is it a bad idea? At least people who care enough about such specifics in their offsprings will then tend to be less disappointed with them, and perhaps love them better.
Besides it's not like engineering babies, it's just making a bunch of them and keeping the ones whose DNA looks better. That's just taking a bit of odds out of the process. Big whoop, it's not like we're actually gonna get a fad of babies with piercing blue eyes and light blonde hair, are we. Are we?
Back in 1997 I bought a book about the Internet. Most of it was a list of webpages, i.e. one website per page, with Madonna's bedtime stories website opposite a space art gallery website, and whatever else that seemed relevant back then. That was back then when you paid the price of a local call to connect to the Internet, so to save time and money you'd have to know which site to visit before the modem would make a whole bunch of funny noises.
Do they still even make such books with long lists of websites and USENET channels? Somehow I doubt it, but I wonder when this genre of literature would have died out.
Wow, fail, obviously it's all solved by giving the whole job to only one of them.
And cannons made by Microsoft? "This cannon has performed an illegal operation and will explode. If the problem persists, please contact the cannon vendor."
Unrelatedly, how do you avoid the 1939 invasion of Poland with "dialogue and communication", mostly if you've "built piece instead of guns"?
"Dear Mr. Hitler,
Please don't invade us, if you would be so kind. Peace is so much better than war! However if you chose to proceed with the annexation of our nation, please be advised that we will oppose absolutely no resistance."
Now THAT would have convinced him. Convinced him to put you on top of his list of countries to annex.
How is it not modern? How does it differ from more recent handguns? Modern pretty much means current, or non-obsolete. The fact that it's still being used by the American armed forces and that it's not technically obsolete make it modern.
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Well.. hopefully you got to uncover more moons than you could have with a telescope!
Funny, because the point you're trying to make about TV shows easily turns against itself. House is a genius, a genius at diagnostics, one we can expect to be quite rare in nature, and surrounded by competent specialists. And yet during most of the episode, which in the show's world time is up to a few days, the doctors in question, including the genius of diagnostics, have no fucking clue what the patient has. Not only that, but you see them going through trial and error and going at great length to attempt to figure out what on Earth the patient has.
So if anything it rather shows you how hard it can be for even a specialist to really know what's the matter with you, and how unreliable what they come up with can be, even for the best of them.
You're assuming that the workers in questions wouldn't be unemployed to begin with. If you go with poor unemployed people and give them a job, even one that won't produce a cent of added value, what you do is that you keep them away from poverty, drugs, bad loans, you enable them to send their kids to better schools than if they stayed poor, hence making them better educated people who will produce more money once they work, who will stay away from crime, drugs, AIDS, and so on... By paying people at doing nothing valuable, you pay them at staying afloat, at not sinking down social classes. If you keep one million people afloat for 2 years until the economy gets better, at the end of the two years you'll have 1 million middle class people who buy, work, invest. If you don't, you'll have a burden of 1 million hobos to take care of. There's a reason why we all live in welfare states.
Contrarily to what most people think, the lesson to be learnt from the broken window fallacy isn't what the fallacy directly tells you, but that you need to examine the ramifications that do not immediately spring to the eye in such intricate questions as the socio-economical effect of anything. It's often hard to get deep enough in the ramifications of the implications of something to tell for sure what the net effects are, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can't rely on the conclusions that are immediately obvious.
The problem you're mentioning really comes from a void that health insurances fill. Where I'm from, in France, you don't need an health insurance. Everything you really need, the state will reimburse. You go to the doctor, sure, you pay 20 euros, which will be reimbursed. You buy your prescribed medicine, again, all reimbursed provided it's not some homoeopathic crap and that you take the generic version of a medicine.
Yep, it costs the taxpayer some money, but it fucking works, and it's overall less money paid by citizens than the billions dumped each year into health insurances in America.
I'm sure I'd get attacked on ideological grounds for claiming that, but the solution is simply for the state to take care of everybody's good health, no health insurance needed. But apparently in America, people's little personal anti-Marxist ideology left over from the Cold War is more important than the cost of their own health.
My thoughts exactly (I'm French, we can claim to have a healthcare system that rivals with Cuba's) ;-)
Yeah, is the GP new here? Everyone knows that on Slashdot libertarians/"independants" are the majority anyways.
That's what annoys me about the trend of big studio games, it's like the more money you throw at a production, the more it's gonna have to look like a movie. Take GTA IV for example. It's just a huge movie in which you get to partially play the scenes and dick around pointlessly in between scenes for the sake of fun or boredom.
Yeah, it's a great game, but it tries to hard to be just like a movie, so hard it ruins the fun. "You failed the mission? Yay, you get to try it over and over again until you succeed! Linearity baby!" or even "Oh wait, you can't swim to that part of the city quite yet or we'll send every NPC we have to take you down cause we don't want you to go there before our linear story takes you there".
It's not all bad, but it's a shame we should project the characteristics of a media/form of art onto another just because we can't rethink the way to do things and exploit the new advantages of the new medium.
Wow actually it even added Gayniggers from Outer Space to my eMule downloads..
Yes, opened a bunch of tabs, like 40 Outlook and Thunderbird compose mail windows with spam messages in them, videos (that wouldn't open) in VLC, a crapload of telnet windows, that kind of crap..
Damnit, I actually had to pull the plug, the ethernet one then the power one.. how can Firefox by default let all that shit happen just by visiting a webpage?
Oh and the "shock" image is a guy sodomising his own self. Never saw that before, I always suspected it could probably be done, but never saw it..
Left 4 Dead was scary? Seriously?? It just sounded like a fun "hey let's kill a hundred of NPCs a minute" type of game to me. You know what game was really scary to me? Duke Nukem 3D, for its Octabrain. If you wanna make it scary, you need a monster slightly taller than you, very ugly, that dwells in the dark or underwater, that screams in a scary way and that you can't get rid of easily.
Zombies aren't scary, mostly when you're pointing a shotgun at them.
By the way, are there any good modern 3D games that exploit the concept of 3D Monster Maze? Trying to run and hide unarmed from a monster who's after you is awesome, but few 3D games from 1981 live up to my modern expectations.
I was trying to RTFA and so I clicked the link to the diffamatory posts that started it all, as offered by TFA :
http://www.thelegality.com/DOCUME%7E1/SAM/LOCALS%7E1/Local%20Settings/Temporary%20Internet%20Files/Content.Outlook/W39BHG8L/WWW.autoadmit.com
Yeah, great job guys, way to know how to use the Internet.
They wrote, falsely, that Heller has herpes and had bribed her way into Yaleâ"helped by a secret lesbian affair with the dean of admissionsâ"and that Iravani has gonorrhea, is addicted to heroin, and had exchanged oral sex with Yale Law Schoolâ(TM)s dean for a passing grade in civil procedure.
And? Is there anyone stupid enough in Yale or in related circles to believe such claims from our beloved Anonymous under such pseudonyms as "Cheese Eating Surrender Monkey, The Ayatollah of Rock-n-Rollah, hitlerhitlerhitler, Dirty Nigger, Sleazy Z, stanfordtroll, lonelyvirgin, Yalels2009, ak47"?
I mean shit, this is the fucking Internet, if you're gonna sue any Anonymous who's gonna call you a fag, then Kanye West has a whole world to sue.
lol. Are you trying to be funny? The agenda that the French president and the recording industry try to push hardly benefits artists. What do you think, that the RIAA is fighting tooth and nail just so your favourite electrohouse artist can get a bigger pay cheque? What Sarkozy does doesn't benefit them, and they know that. That means they're not as stupid as you rushed to claim, how shocking!
I see, so that's actually more like deconvolution (using a simulated PSF) than subtraction?
TFA says it works by "modeling" the distribution of the star's light halo and subtracting that modeled glow from the actual image. So basically it's just like fitting a radial distribution on the star and subtracting, am I right? We couldn't do that ten years ago? I hope there's more to it, and if there is, I'd be interested to hear more about it.
Thanks for your insight, but don't you understand that people appreciate recognizing their own traits in their offsprings? You know, like, stuff in common. I mean, an adopted kid is pretty much a totally random kid, a biological offspring is still kind of random, but at least they have something special in common with you to begin with, they look like you, they have abilities in common, and so on..
Plus, when you don't self loathe yourself, and think yourself as someone great, and think the same about the person you want to reproduce with, then the idea of a genetical combination of the two of you sounds like it should give a nice result.
I'd quite like a Versace son.
If Versace was still alive, straight, and your wife was hot, I guess it could be arranged.
Why? Women probably care about penile size more than men.
No, you're just falling for the way the summary spins the story. How the fuck do you go from screening embryos to "mass market items" anyways? It doesn't change anything to the way people decide to have them or raise them anyways, besides, if you're worried about that you should be worried about people who reproduce for worse reasons, like people who make lots of kids to get welfare checks, but more importantly to people to support them when they get older.
Why is it a bad idea? At least people who care enough about such specifics in their offsprings will then tend to be less disappointed with them, and perhaps love them better.
Besides it's not like engineering babies, it's just making a bunch of them and keeping the ones whose DNA looks better. That's just taking a bit of odds out of the process. Big whoop, it's not like we're actually gonna get a fad of babies with piercing blue eyes and light blonde hair, are we. Are we?
Or are we?
Hmm, fascinating! Thanks for the insight on your opinions, perfect stranger!
First point and laugh!
Back in 1997 I bought a book about the Internet. Most of it was a list of webpages, i.e. one website per page, with Madonna's bedtime stories website opposite a space art gallery website, and whatever else that seemed relevant back then. That was back then when you paid the price of a local call to connect to the Internet, so to save time and money you'd have to know which site to visit before the modem would make a whole bunch of funny noises.
Do they still even make such books with long lists of websites and USENET channels? Somehow I doubt it, but I wonder when this genre of literature would have died out.
Wow, fail, obviously it's all solved by giving the whole job to only one of them.
And cannons made by Microsoft? "This cannon has performed an illegal operation and will explode. If the problem persists, please contact the cannon vendor."
Unrelatedly, how do you avoid the 1939 invasion of Poland with "dialogue and communication", mostly if you've "built piece instead of guns"?
"Dear Mr. Hitler,
Please don't invade us, if you would be so kind. Peace is so much better than war! However if you chose to proceed with the annexation of our nation, please be advised that we will oppose absolutely no resistance."
Now THAT would have convinced him. Convinced him to put you on top of his list of countries to annex.
How is it not modern? How does it differ from more recent handguns? Modern pretty much means current, or non-obsolete. The fact that it's still being used by the American armed forces and that it's not technically obsolete make it modern.