TFA doesn't strike me as terribly new. "Healthy body, healthy mind" is as old as the hills. If one has the discipline or talent to become truly -- truly -- outstanding in one thing, be it marathon-running or chess, that tendency towards success will cross over into other areas of their life. There is a sort of halo effect at work here. Be fucking exceptional at one thing, and start being pretty good at everything else.
Leonardo da Vinci could purportedly bend horseshoes, a feat considered a mark of skill among strongmen. Incidentally, most of the great 'golden-age' strongmen -- Sandow, Inch, Saxon, etc. -- were extremely aristocratic and well-spoken.
I absolutely aspire towards perfecting both mind and body. The further I bring the one, the more I seem to pull the other with it. Fritz Zwicky, the first physicist to theorize dark matter, would often intimidate his colleagues by doing one-arm push-ups. I'll never rock the science world as did Fritz, but in learning to do one-arm push-ups myself [a point of pride], I've learned a lot as a Physics student.
'Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.'
As long as you're willing to apply judiciously that same scientific rigor to the findings of comparative planetologists as you are those of the climatological chic, fine, and well met.
As I see it, there's a lot of guff on every side of this argument. As a matter of caution, though, I will always side with the concerned scientists, over the excuse-seeking ones, even if an excuse is a very reasonable think to be seeking.
As funny as it is on the surface level of sour candies, parents' basement, and girl angst, here is someone who found a calling, devoted his life to it and lived it out by bringing down a sexual predator, and that is empowering and that is fucking beautiful.
Sir, if you read Slashdot, as I suspect you may, a thousand congratulations. You've given me something to feel truly decent about as a human being.
That petty ID forgery would be harder with a national ID is a discomforting thought.
This is probably a minority viewpoint, but I see laws, written and unwritten, as contracts one is, as a citizen, born into. I consider laws to mean not 'You may not steal. If you do steal, you will be punished as follows:'. Rather, I consider them to mean 'You may steal. However, if you do steal, you will be punished as follows:'. The element of choice is the key difference here, and I consider this interpretation of law to be much more in accordance with reality, as people break laws constantly.
I just, and call me an idealist, have to believe in fairness as a cosmological principle, and allowing for the inalienable right to choose to break a law and face the consequences is the only way that law as a whole is truly fair.
Hence, I die a little every time a crime becomes more difficult than it already is: It is remarkably difficult to get away with anything as it is, and it is only if we are free to commit crimes as well as do good that we are at all free.
And yet another instance in a long line extending back perhaps as far as civilization in which personal freedoms are traded off under the guise of short-term security. It pains me to no end to see the citizenry erode its own independence like this.
This will no doubt stop a few crimes, but is it worth the costs?
Honestly, as trifling as it seems and may be, shit like this is why I will never bring children into this world.
(guess what - they sell cell phones that are literally no-frills so that employees can have a cheap company phone)
And about time, mes sieurs! I'm tired of all those literally-frilled phones getting caught on my coatsleeves right in the middle of a rousing bout of lawn-tennis!
Slashdot Mirror
Sir, you officially win the Slashdot virgin joke contest. Website over. It's been good.
I'm thinking manicotti.
Bravo, and hear-hear.
TFA doesn't strike me as terribly new. "Healthy body, healthy mind" is as old as the hills. If one has the discipline or talent to become truly -- truly -- outstanding in one thing, be it marathon-running or chess, that tendency towards success will cross over into other areas of their life. There is a sort of halo effect at work here. Be fucking exceptional at one thing, and start being pretty good at everything else.
Leonardo da Vinci could purportedly bend horseshoes, a feat considered a mark of skill among strongmen. Incidentally, most of the great 'golden-age' strongmen -- Sandow, Inch, Saxon, etc. -- were extremely aristocratic and well-spoken.
I absolutely aspire towards perfecting both mind and body. The further I bring the one, the more I seem to pull the other with it. Fritz Zwicky, the first physicist to theorize dark matter, would often intimidate his colleagues by doing one-arm push-ups. I'll never rock the science world as did Fritz, but in learning to do one-arm push-ups myself [a point of pride], I've learned a lot as a Physics student.
Go figure.
And the beauty of an editable search engine is: you can make it so that it can be read as "edible search engine"!
IDK; IANAP.
Gamma a break.
'Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws. The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn't work particularly well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere that there wasn't really any point in being there.'
As long as you're willing to apply judiciously that same scientific rigor to the findings of comparative planetologists as you are those of the climatological chic, fine, and well met.
As I see it, there's a lot of guff on every side of this argument. As a matter of caution, though, I will always side with the concerned scientists, over the excuse-seeking ones, even if an excuse is a very reasonable think to be seeking.
For the love of God, mod parent up.
Don't forget radio aficianados. WRPI is one of the best college stations I've had the privilege of hearing.
Jumping... is useless.
Oh, shit, I mean 'tubes'.
Am I... Am I ousted?
Perfect.
I declare you undisputed winner of this round of Slashmemes.
The next round is scheduled for the soonest available 'series of pipes' reference.
As funny as it is on the surface level of sour candies, parents' basement, and girl angst, here is someone who found a calling, devoted his life to it and lived it out by bringing down a sexual predator, and that is empowering and that is fucking beautiful.
Sir, if you read Slashdot, as I suspect you may, a thousand congratulations. You've given me something to feel truly decent about as a human being.
You know, I tell myself that every morning, right upon waking. And here I thought I was the only one. Man, you know, just fuck people sometimes.
Damn. And here I thought I'd found another soul on the internet who shares my systematic mistrust of Food Fighters.
That petty ID forgery would be harder with a national ID is a discomforting thought.
This is probably a minority viewpoint, but I see laws, written and unwritten, as contracts one is, as a citizen, born into. I consider laws to mean not 'You may not steal. If you do steal, you will be punished as follows:'. Rather, I consider them to mean 'You may steal. However, if you do steal, you will be punished as follows:'. The element of choice is the key difference here, and I consider this interpretation of law to be much more in accordance with reality, as people break laws constantly.
I just, and call me an idealist, have to believe in fairness as a cosmological principle, and allowing for the inalienable right to choose to break a law and face the consequences is the only way that law as a whole is truly fair.
Hence, I die a little every time a crime becomes more difficult than it already is: It is remarkably difficult to get away with anything as it is, and it is only if we are free to commit crimes as well as do good that we are at all free.
See also: Clockwork Orange.
That sounds less scary to you?
Old poison, new bottle.
Hey, wait, I played Math Blaster -- I am ready for this .
I am somewhat awestruck by the length of that digression.
There might -- possibly -- have been a simpler way of stating that.
Because, much like my last girlfriend, that outright jarred my testicles.
May I do the honors of being the first Slashdotter to describe this device with the term "Lie-Berry".
That's probably the most thoughtful thing I'll read for the day.
I'll dwell on it.
And yet another instance in a long line extending back perhaps as far as civilization in which personal freedoms are traded off under the guise of short-term security. It pains me to no end to see the citizenry erode its own independence like this.
This will no doubt stop a few crimes, but is it worth the costs?
Honestly, as trifling as it seems and may be, shit like this is why I will never bring children into this world.