this is also how pachinko parlors in japan work to get around japan's gambling laws, except you exchange the trinkets for actual money at an establishment next door to the pachinko parlor.
If we're really going to solve this problem, guns should have captcha-like technology, determining that the wielder retains the capacity for empathy before he can fire it.
As soon as he removes the safety, the gun should pose a simple question, such as "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
True enough, and yet letting these individuals moulder away in jail seems like a profound waste of human capital, and certainly contrary to the best interests of a civil society.
Why not throw them into Vesuvius to appease Jupiter and prevent the next earthquake?
Won't be long before lazy fat people are using these just because they don't feel like using their own muscles to move their limbs. Happened with the mobility scooters, it'll happen with these suits.
step one: get them addicted to motor control suit. step two: distribute virus to suits that locks in wearer and prevents him from eating anything but celery.
Interesting.
I just had a debate with another slashdotter (bws111) about authors' rights. I said when an author like JRR Tolkien dies, his heirs should no longer get paid, because the kids are not the ones who did the work. Only the original laborer should receive money.
The other slashdotter said the Author's kids should be paid. I wonder how he feels about iTunes songs? I suspect he wold be opposed to the idea that songs can be passed generation-to-generation because it would cut into his earnings.
You appear to be assuming his position is less coherent than it might be. He is considering LoTR to be like a hammer factory, capable of producing many hammers (ie, copies of the book) over time. He thinks the author is the owner of the factory and the kids should be able to inherit the factory, even if they didn't build it, and even if they hire someone else to run it. He would likely claim that copies of a song are like copies of a book in being the hammers the factory produces. Just as you can pass along a hammer you've bought, you can pass along a song or a book you've purchased. This does not infringe on the right of the children of the guy who built the factory to make money off of it. (The difference between a book and a hammer could then be used to argue why this "factory" should not be inheritable, or the inheritability should be limited.)
The idea that one should not inherit what he did not earn is peculiar. If one only inherits the fruits of his own labor, rarely would anyone ever inherit anything.
here's how I would do it: first 5 years in US, which probably won't collapse before then, and if it gets close, we'll just hornswoggle the Chinese into buying a bunch of movie studios like we did with the Japanese. Next 10 years in China. Make sure you pick up Mandarin. Parlay your ability to quote verbatim the scripts of popular 80's action movies into a career as executive of a floundering movie studio. Walk out of the office one day saying "I'll be back." Never go back. Next 20 years in Brazil, where you'll leverage your Chinese connections to become a major wheeler dealer in a revival of the opium trade. The most important thing is to leave no trace as you proceed. You don't want families 1.0 or 2.0 paying you and Conchita an unexpected visit in your Sau Paulo hacienda.
"fat-country mile (n): the distance, in certain western democracies, between where you are now and any second point to which someone suggests you might walk."
I majored in physics in college, and spent a lot of time with physicists from world renowned Nobel prize winners to lowly undergraduates. I can testify that physicists, in addition to lacking any appreciation for visual aesthetics, also lack the ability to properly dress themselves, shave their faces, comb their hair, speak to an audience not of their peers, and most of all they have no understanding of proper hygiene. We used to have a lounge out of which at least half a dozen kids were living, toothbrushes and all. The stench still haunts me. I remember walking into the lavatory where 3-4 physics majors were taking a shower out of a sink.
Oh, and lest you think I'm a-hatin', most of the above applies to me as well.
I suggest you may be overly confident in your assessment of what she expected, and of her own assessment of the relative desirability of the possible outcomes. The impetus for a decision often differs from its justification, especially when an elected leader must appeal to a polarized constituency abhorrent of nuance.
When I went to university, I thought I might find people mostly with similar opinions (politics etc) to myself, being of the same IQ group. Up until then I had always thought most people around me had plainly idiotic opinions and I had put it down to their being a bit low on brainpower. In fact I found the others at uni (who we can assume were all of significantly higher IQ than average) had the same range of idiotic opinions (IMHO) as people generally.
Surveys have shown that the distribution of political, ethical and religious opinions tends to be the same whatever the IQ group. I find this strange.
Take the infamous Mrs Thatcher. I can recognise that she was a very intelligent woman but at the same time stupid in many things. Like she thought that by privatising industries and selling the shares to the public (cheap), the British people would become shareholders in large numbers - a "shareholding democracy" - and we would all then clamour for more efficiency in those industries as shareholders. What happened is that we bought those shares and then promptly sold them again (mostly to foreign enterprises as it turned out - a large part of UK rail freight is now owned by the *nationalised* German Railways!). The point is that most people with any sense could have told her that would happen - why could someone so intelligent not see it herself? Just one example of my point.
There is an argument to be made that foreign ownership of local firms is not necessarily a bad thing. I find your 'this happened and because I think it's bad therefore the people who caused it must never have considered the possibility it would happen' argument to be problematic.
Wisdom would be gained by discovering the effect of fire by putting your finger in it.
Intelligence would be testing the effect of fire on something less critical than your finger in order to discover its nature.
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is there some sort of accident that could reverse this depression? like perhaps an explosion at a giant nitrous oxide factory?
we're spraying water on the flames instead of at the root of the problem
wouldn't spraying water at the root just make the problem grow?
"pot use reduces not only IQ but also wealth and access to schooling"
the only solution is to wait two weeks or more until after a movie comes out to see it in an almost empty theater
that's what I do. otherwise there's always some jerk who thinks it's funny to throw popcorn at me while I'm trying to talk on the phone.
I don't believe we'll be doing anything wrong
shortly to become
I didn't believe we were doing anything wrong
this is also how pachinko parlors in japan work to get around japan's gambling laws, except you exchange the trinkets for actual money at an establishment next door to the pachinko parlor.
If we're really going to solve this problem, guns should have captcha-like technology, determining that the wielder retains the capacity for empathy before he can fire it.
As soon as he removes the safety, the gun should pose a simple question, such as "You're in a desert, walking along in the sand, when all of a sudden you look down and see a tortoise. You reach down and you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?"
it should be payable to the victims of the data breach
I'm sure the hopsice would love that. just spend the afternoon at the cemetery with a checkbook and a trowel.
The taser is supposed to be a last resort before/instead of using a firearm.
in that case I guess we can all be thankful for their discretion
The police tastered this person
"she was delicious, but a half hour later I was hungry again."
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
True enough, and yet letting these individuals moulder away in jail seems like a profound waste of human capital, and certainly contrary to the best interests of a civil society.
Why not throw them into Vesuvius to appease Jupiter and prevent the next earthquake?
If a person suffers from late stage Alzheimer's, is it OK to beat them up?
Beat you up, granddad? No, you got those bruises in the war.
Unfortunately the photo was cropped and all I could see is a rectangular thingy.
Anyone saw any "rounded corner"?
That line is getting REALLY tired...
then perhaps you will enjoy this joke.
Q: Why is the corner rounded?
A: Because the line was REALLY tired.
"
Won't be long before lazy fat people are using these just because they don't feel like using their own muscles to move their limbs. Happened with the mobility scooters, it'll happen with these suits.
step one: get them addicted to motor control suit. step two: distribute virus to suits that locks in wearer and prevents him from eating anything but celery.
Interesting. I just had a debate with another slashdotter (bws111) about authors' rights. I said when an author like JRR Tolkien dies, his heirs should no longer get paid, because the kids are not the ones who did the work. Only the original laborer should receive money.
The other slashdotter said the Author's kids should be paid. I wonder how he feels about iTunes songs? I suspect he wold be opposed to the idea that songs can be passed generation-to-generation because it would cut into his earnings.
You appear to be assuming his position is less coherent than it might be. He is considering LoTR to be like a hammer factory, capable of producing many hammers (ie, copies of the book) over time. He thinks the author is the owner of the factory and the kids should be able to inherit the factory, even if they didn't build it, and even if they hire someone else to run it. He would likely claim that copies of a song are like copies of a book in being the hammers the factory produces. Just as you can pass along a hammer you've bought, you can pass along a song or a book you've purchased. This does not infringe on the right of the children of the guy who built the factory to make money off of it. (The difference between a book and a hammer could then be used to argue why this "factory" should not be inheritable, or the inheritability should be limited.)
The idea that one should not inherit what he did not earn is peculiar. If one only inherits the fruits of his own labor, rarely would anyone ever inherit anything.
A Drone Strike app which can't initiate strikes is like an email client which can't send email.
Apple deserves our thanks for keeping unfinished apps out of the App Store.
you say that now, but what happens when grandma hits Reply To All and levels the Maghreb?
clearly he wasn't lying when he said those doping allegations were taking their toll
here's how I would do it: first 5 years in US, which probably won't collapse before then, and if it gets close, we'll just hornswoggle the Chinese into buying a bunch of movie studios like we did with the Japanese. Next 10 years in China. Make sure you pick up Mandarin. Parlay your ability to quote verbatim the scripts of popular 80's action movies into a career as executive of a floundering movie studio. Walk out of the office one day saying "I'll be back." Never go back. Next 20 years in Brazil, where you'll leverage your Chinese connections to become a major wheeler dealer in a revival of the opium trade. The most important thing is to leave no trace as you proceed. You don't want families 1.0 or 2.0 paying you and Conchita an unexpected visit in your Sau Paulo hacienda.
"fat-country mile (n): the distance, in certain western democracies, between where you are now and any second point to which someone suggests you might walk."
I majored in physics in college, and spent a lot of time with physicists from world renowned Nobel prize winners to lowly undergraduates. I can testify that physicists, in addition to lacking any appreciation for visual aesthetics, also lack the ability to properly dress themselves, shave their faces, comb their hair, speak to an audience not of their peers, and most of all they have no understanding of proper hygiene. We used to have a lounge out of which at least half a dozen kids were living, toothbrushes and all. The stench still haunts me. I remember walking into the lavatory where 3-4 physics majors were taking a shower out of a sink. Oh, and lest you think I'm a-hatin', most of the above applies to me as well.
this is how I learn I'm a physics genius?
I suggest you may be overly confident in your assessment of what she expected, and of her own assessment of the relative desirability of the possible outcomes. The impetus for a decision often differs from its justification, especially when an elected leader must appeal to a polarized constituency abhorrent of nuance.
When I went to university, I thought I might find people mostly with similar opinions (politics etc) to myself, being of the same IQ group. Up until then I had always thought most people around me had plainly idiotic opinions and I had put it down to their being a bit low on brainpower. In fact I found the others at uni (who we can assume were all of significantly higher IQ than average) had the same range of idiotic opinions (IMHO) as people generally. Surveys have shown that the distribution of political, ethical and religious opinions tends to be the same whatever the IQ group. I find this strange. Take the infamous Mrs Thatcher. I can recognise that she was a very intelligent woman but at the same time stupid in many things. Like she thought that by privatising industries and selling the shares to the public (cheap), the British people would become shareholders in large numbers - a "shareholding democracy" - and we would all then clamour for more efficiency in those industries as shareholders. What happened is that we bought those shares and then promptly sold them again (mostly to foreign enterprises as it turned out - a large part of UK rail freight is now owned by the *nationalised* German Railways!). The point is that most people with any sense could have told her that would happen - why could someone so intelligent not see it herself? Just one example of my point.
There is an argument to be made that foreign ownership of local firms is not necessarily a bad thing. I find your 'this happened and because I think it's bad therefore the people who caused it must never have considered the possibility it would happen' argument to be problematic.
Wisdom would be gained by discovering the effect of fire by putting your finger in it. Intelligence would be testing the effect of fire on something less critical than your finger in order to discover its nature.
so, like, someone else's finger?
...what you do and accomplish, not what you are.
sounds like a commercial for nike pocket protectors
Crichton was trying to make a point with his Jurassic Park novels. It was a cautionary tale about "the law of unintended consequences".
and as a result, some dude's building a dinosaur park. I bet Crichton never intended that.