I have a Honda CR-Z. It's a hybrid, though I couldn't really care less. I bought it because I thought it was a pretty cool little car. The gas mileage was pretty sweet, but I bought it for the looks; I think it kinda looks like a spaceship escape pod. Yep.
If the teachers get to have a computer grade the paper, I should be able to have a computer write the paper.
Actually, I did that once for a poem. We were supposed to write a poem in the style of Pablo Neruda. So I wrote a program to parse Pablo Neruda's poems and spit out the most Neruda-like poem possible using an algorithm I developed. As part of the larger paper surrounding our poem, I included my source code, so it was all on the up and up. I got an A, no big deal.
Seriously. I don't care what the critics say, it had cowboys, aliens, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Craig, and Harrison Ford. If you don't like it, then you, my friend, just don't know art.
You know what? I hear this argument all the time, and I'm sick of it. I don't know what terribly useless degree you got, but I got a degree in chemistry. And tell you what, I learned the skills necessary to be a useful contributer to a lab. I know, because I was a useful contributer to a lab during my internship, and there I also met other dudes with a BS in chemistry who were doing the actual, hands-on chemistry that I thought was cool in the first place. So bah; if your college isn't teaching you anything useful, go to a better damn college.
This Einstein fella - I keep on hearing about how he's been proven wrong or might be proven wrong or how people are picking his ideas apart. It's like he hasn't even SEEN a modern physics paper in like, the last 50 years.
They still do this stuff. It's called denatured. You're not supposed to drink industrial solvents. That's why they're industrial. No one complains that we poison antifreeze with ethylene glycol - BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK ANTIFREEZE. Stuff meant for consumption is taxed at a higher rate and undergoes a lot of inspections to make sure it's fit for human consumption. If it's not meant for human consumption, they don't get taxed as heavily and don't undergo inspections. How do you prove your stuff isn't meant for humans? You poison it and LABEL IT AS SUCH. Industrial solvents are labeled poisonous because they are. We're not poisoning the masses, we are providing them solvents at cheaper rates.
I think these guys have a point that different technologies affect the way we interact with people. I will fully agree that it is far easier to keep in touch with your grandmother when you can call her at night and fly cross-country to see her than it was back in the "day" when you had to send a letter in order to communicate with anyone at a distance and you had to take a stage coach cross-country.
However, I always think such researchers begin to sound old and crotchety when they start making predictions that "the kids of tomorrow will have no attention span!" and whatnot. Tech changes, people change, but it's not always BAD.
This is kinda funny, because Godzilla was at first a warning against big ole' American things like nukes. So now we need a monster movie warning against big ole' American things like oppressive IP law.
When will the day come when science is encouraged, and not looked at with suspicious eyes and squashed through lack of funding, crazy regulations, and policies set to defend the one guy who shouldn't need defending, God (Intelligent Design in schools, I'm lookin' at you).
No, dummy, you shouldn't do it. Ethics don't change even if your boss told you to. If you wanna get all Godwin with me than I can tell you that troops are still responsible for having followed an order if it's unlawful, that is, something like this.
My point here is if you do this, you're still in trouble. Don't do it. Tell your boss it's illegal (or at least against the TOS) and that you shouldn't do it. If he still wants you to do it, tell your boss's boss what your boss wants you to do. Wash, rinse, repeat until you aren't being told to do it or you manage to find work that doesn't require you to break rules.
Yeah, but what happens when some enemy spy creates a device that looks and operates exactly like any other mouse, except it collects reams of classified data?
Look, when an athlete dies these days due to an overdose on whatever steroid or performance enhancing drug he's secretly taking, it's his fault, sure, you could argue that the culture of sports and the culture of having to be better than the next guy drove him to it, but in the end it's illegal and against the rules and he shouldn't have done it.
If you legalize doping, then it's no longer his fault. It's allowed in the rules and it's encouraged and if that's the case then doping wouldn't be a personal choice for the athlete, it would be a requirement to be able to keep up with all the other althetes in his field. So when an athlete dies doping in a dope-okay world, then he is a cruel victim of the system and the system is to be blamed.
That's why you can't legalize doping. Make it legal, then people will be FORCED to do it, and then people will die because y'all thought it was too inconvienient to try to make better tests.
In the town where I was born Lived a man who sailed to sea And he told us of his life In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun Till we found the sea of green And we lived beneath the waves In our Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine
And our friends are all on board Many more of them live next door And the band begins to play
We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine
[Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead! Full speed over here, sir! Action station! Action station! Aye, aye, sir, fire! Heaven! Heaven!]
As we live a life of ease (A life of ease) Everyone of us (Everyone of us) has all we need (Has all we need) Sky of blue (Sky of blue) and sea of green (Sea of green) In our Robot (In our Robot) submarine (Submarine, ha, ha)
We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine We all live in a Robot submarine Robot submarine, Robot submarine
Dude, the Flat-Earthers aren't the Christian Right, here. Yeah, there's a Flat-Earther Society that likes to meet and pretend the Earth is still flat, but they don't, in actuality, take themselves seriousely. It's an amusing hobby and an excuse to get away from their wives and hang out with the guys once a year. Jeez.
Why do we always have to wait for the new telescope to be completed before we can find out cool new things about the cosmos?
Seriousely. Why don't we ever hear about cool new things that can be confirmed with existing technology, but they just haven't gotten around to it yet or something?
Wait a minute here. Now we here know spooky action is all well and good, and is a possible route for faster-than-light communication. But last time I checked, we had still not successfully used quantum entanglement to communicate in real time, let alone, er... past times. They haven't been able to use it for any sort of communication at all. So it seems to me he's jumping ahead of the ball game.
Shouldn't he create a method to use quantum entanglement to communicate in the present before he starts trying to talk to the past?
That sucker passed emissions testing right off. No "spend $400 and we'll pretend your car is okay" type stuff. It just passed. This car has not been loved by any means. Cars don't need those silly, silly things.
We're gonna have a competition to see who can make the most utterly complex (but useful) program out of Scratch. Doesn't matter if it's already been done, but it has to be complex by nature; it doesn't count if you take 10000 lines to print out Hello World. Winner gets bragging rights for a year. After that, the copyright license ends.
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I have a Honda CR-Z. It's a hybrid, though I couldn't really care less. I bought it because I thought it was a pretty cool little car. The gas mileage was pretty sweet, but I bought it for the looks; I think it kinda looks like a spaceship escape pod. Yep.
If the teachers get to have a computer grade the paper, I should be able to have a computer write the paper. Actually, I did that once for a poem. We were supposed to write a poem in the style of Pablo Neruda. So I wrote a program to parse Pablo Neruda's poems and spit out the most Neruda-like poem possible using an algorithm I developed. As part of the larger paper surrounding our poem, I included my source code, so it was all on the up and up. I got an A, no big deal.
Those people have relatives too, ya know.
Seriously. I don't care what the critics say, it had cowboys, aliens, Olivia Wilde, Daniel Craig, and Harrison Ford. If you don't like it, then you, my friend, just don't know art.
You know what? I hear this argument all the time, and I'm sick of it. I don't know what terribly useless degree you got, but I got a degree in chemistry. And tell you what, I learned the skills necessary to be a useful contributer to a lab. I know, because I was a useful contributer to a lab during my internship, and there I also met other dudes with a BS in chemistry who were doing the actual, hands-on chemistry that I thought was cool in the first place. So bah; if your college isn't teaching you anything useful, go to a better damn college.
This Einstein fella - I keep on hearing about how he's been proven wrong or might be proven wrong or how people are picking his ideas apart. It's like he hasn't even SEEN a modern physics paper in like, the last 50 years.
They still do this stuff. It's called denatured. You're not supposed to drink industrial solvents. That's why they're industrial. No one complains that we poison antifreeze with ethylene glycol - BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO DRINK ANTIFREEZE. Stuff meant for consumption is taxed at a higher rate and undergoes a lot of inspections to make sure it's fit for human consumption. If it's not meant for human consumption, they don't get taxed as heavily and don't undergo inspections. How do you prove your stuff isn't meant for humans? You poison it and LABEL IT AS SUCH. Industrial solvents are labeled poisonous because they are. We're not poisoning the masses, we are providing them solvents at cheaper rates.
I think these guys have a point that different technologies affect the way we interact with people. I will fully agree that it is far easier to keep in touch with your grandmother when you can call her at night and fly cross-country to see her than it was back in the "day" when you had to send a letter in order to communicate with anyone at a distance and you had to take a stage coach cross-country. However, I always think such researchers begin to sound old and crotchety when they start making predictions that "the kids of tomorrow will have no attention span!" and whatnot. Tech changes, people change, but it's not always BAD.
Maybe it sounded like it was a dock for amphibious transports.
Maybe auto mechanics just complain about stupid things like that in places other than the internet?
This is kinda funny, because Godzilla was at first a warning against big ole' American things like nukes. So now we need a monster movie warning against big ole' American things like oppressive IP law.
...secretly, I still use USB drives. Don't tell anyone. It's easier than emailing myself everything.
When will the day come when science is encouraged, and not looked at with suspicious eyes and squashed through lack of funding, crazy regulations, and policies set to defend the one guy who shouldn't need defending, God (Intelligent Design in schools, I'm lookin' at you).
Erm, I may be wrong, but don't most distilled liqueurs come as 80 proof here in the States?
No, dummy, you shouldn't do it. Ethics don't change even if your boss told you to. If you wanna get all Godwin with me than I can tell you that troops are still responsible for having followed an order if it's unlawful, that is, something like this. My point here is if you do this, you're still in trouble. Don't do it. Tell your boss it's illegal (or at least against the TOS) and that you shouldn't do it. If he still wants you to do it, tell your boss's boss what your boss wants you to do. Wash, rinse, repeat until you aren't being told to do it or you manage to find work that doesn't require you to break rules.
Yeah, but what happens when some enemy spy creates a device that looks and operates exactly like any other mouse, except it collects reams of classified data?
Look, when an athlete dies these days due to an overdose on whatever steroid or performance enhancing drug he's secretly taking, it's his fault, sure, you could argue that the culture of sports and the culture of having to be better than the next guy drove him to it, but in the end it's illegal and against the rules and he shouldn't have done it. If you legalize doping, then it's no longer his fault. It's allowed in the rules and it's encouraged and if that's the case then doping wouldn't be a personal choice for the athlete, it would be a requirement to be able to keep up with all the other althetes in his field. So when an athlete dies doping in a dope-okay world, then he is a cruel victim of the system and the system is to be blamed. That's why you can't legalize doping. Make it legal, then people will be FORCED to do it, and then people will die because y'all thought it was too inconvienient to try to make better tests.
In the town where I was born
Lived a man who sailed to sea
And he told us of his life
In the land of submarines
So we sailed up to the sun
Till we found the sea of green
And we lived beneath the waves
In our Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
And our friends are all on board
Many more of them live next door
And the band begins to play
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
[Full speed ahead, Mr. Parker, full speed ahead!
Full speed over here, sir!
Action station! Action station!
Aye, aye, sir, fire!
Heaven! Heaven!]
As we live a life of ease (A life of ease)
Everyone of us (Everyone of us) has all we need (Has all we need)
Sky of blue (Sky of blue) and sea of green (Sea of green)
In our Robot (In our Robot) submarine (Submarine, ha, ha)
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
We all live in a Robot submarine
Robot submarine, Robot submarine
Dude, the Flat-Earthers aren't the Christian Right, here. Yeah, there's a Flat-Earther Society that likes to meet and pretend the Earth is still flat, but they don't, in actuality, take themselves seriousely. It's an amusing hobby and an excuse to get away from their wives and hang out with the guys once a year. Jeez.
I was gonna skip over this article, but then the irony was too great.
I think those one in ten Americans are all in the military.
Join the military, see the world. Because you'll never sleep again.
Why do we always have to wait for the new telescope to be completed before we can find out cool new things about the cosmos?
Seriousely. Why don't we ever hear about cool new things that can be confirmed with existing technology, but they just haven't gotten around to it yet or something?
Wait a minute here. Now we here know spooky action is all well and good, and is a possible route for faster-than-light communication. But last time I checked, we had still not successfully used quantum entanglement to communicate in real time, let alone, er... past times. They haven't been able to use it for any sort of communication at all. So it seems to me he's jumping ahead of the ball game.
Shouldn't he create a method to use quantum entanglement to communicate in the present before he starts trying to talk to the past?
I own a 1981 DeLorean DMC-12.
That sucker passed emissions testing right off. No "spend $400 and we'll pretend your car is okay" type stuff. It just passed. This car has not been loved by any means. Cars don't need those silly, silly things.
Alrighty guys, here's what we're gonna do:
We're gonna have a competition to see who can make the most utterly complex (but useful) program out of Scratch. Doesn't matter if it's already been done, but it has to be complex by nature; it doesn't count if you take 10000 lines to print out Hello World. Winner gets bragging rights for a year. After that, the copyright license ends.