Talk to most people about domestic spying or the abuses of the Patriot Act, and they say something like, "Well, if you're not doing something bad, who cares if the government is watching?"
this is bottom up. if msnbc suddenly reports more on science in more amounts of time your average slashdotter finds acceptable, msnbc's ratings go down.
No, if they present the news in an uninteresting or nonunderstandable way the ratings go down. Most high school kids hate science class because "science is boring." Well, science isn't boring, their science teacher is boring!
If you have some ignorant dumbass who hates science because his science teacher put everyone to sleep then yes, ratings will go down. But PBS' Cosmos had good ratings, because there was an articulate scientist presenting the show.
If you know a high school science teacher, smack him upside the head for doing such a shitty job.
We're doomed to extinction if we don't stimulate the growth of genuine creativity and curiosity towards science and nature
A species' survival doesn't hings on how intelligent its members are, it depends on procreation. We're not going to become extinct because we're stupid, if we become extinct it will be because of some global catastrophe that we, ourselves, will likely cause.
And it will be a catastrophe that couldn't have occurred had we not been smart enough to make atom bombs, automobiles, electricity, etc.
Who of the unwashed masses wants to think when watching TV?
The topic isn't "reality TV", it's news. You could say the same thing about political news. Nobody wants to think when they're watching The Simpsons, but they want to be educated when they're watching Nova. They want to be informed when watching the news.
some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."
That would only be bad news if their reporting was factual and accurate, but they can hardly report on anything science-related without making some glaring error that any high school student should know is wrong.
It makes me wonder about their reporting on other aspects.
Even worse is the abysmal state of "educational" TV. One reason I dropped cable (besides the annual rate hike gougings) is channels like the Discovery channel. They used to have interesting topics - physics, astronomy, etc. Then it was all "how to chop a tractor-trailor into the world's largest motorcycle" or some such drivel.
OK, I read it. I'll be tempted to click on another C|NET link now. Someone should link to detroit Electric's web site, even though it does merit inclusion in WebPagesThatSuck.
Here is a link to photos of some of their vehicles. here are some press releases.
If you click the link from C|NET you get their splash page, which has a picture of a really cool looking futuristic car next to the antique.
Completely unrelated, but there's a clown^H^H^Hpolitician in London, and he wants to be mayor. The Times [timesonline.co.uk] says "It's always been difficult to imagine Boris running anything more complicated than a bath" which is pretty accurate...
You're lucky, he only wants to be Mayor. Look at the buffoon running my whole country!
I can't disagree with anything you are saying, but if a house burns down and you know the people who live there, it has a far greater impact than one burning down on the other side of the world.
Some people think Britney Spears drug problem is interesting, so now I can hardly open a newspaper without seeing "news" about Britney Spears' custody fight and drug problem, despite the fact that I've never met the overpriced slut and likely never will. It's the worst sort of gossip.
News of your Prime Minister does, indeed, interest me. News of other cultures' politics does interest me, but I'm not likely to get an unbiased viewpoint on it from the AP.
"What, your TV doesn't have a v-chip?" No, but my hand certainly has a "back".
I don't know where this originated, but the Bellamy Brothers have a very similar song that Google can't seem to find the lyrics to.
I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher. Or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profane four letter word. I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds and cockleburs out of dad's fields.
I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline or chop some fire wood. And if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the wood shed.
Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin, and if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America might be a better place today.
But you are right that $700/year was the average annual income back in the 20s
"Average" (what a statistician calls "mean") means nothing here. If ten people make $10k/yr and #11 makes $10m, the average person is a millionaire, but the mean is dirt-poor.
BINGO! The inflation statistics come from the rear of a cow's mate. For instance, they say gasolione "adjusted for inflation" is cheaper than it was in 1980. Having actually been driving for over twn years then, I can tell you that it was NOT the case.
Inflation takes into account only what something costs, not what you have to buy it. And it takes the cost of things you don't buy and ignores things you do buy. A Lamborgini is factored into the cost of inflation, as is a 60 inch plasma HiDef TV, while the cost of a normal TV has dropped.
Gasoline drives inflation, as everything has to be transported including the fuel to transport the goods.
When I see some goober say gasoline is cheaper than in 1980 I point him to the minimum wage stats (and when the minimum rises so does almost everyone else's) compared to toda, and he finds that a minimum wage worker spends far more time working to pay for a gallon of gas than he did in 1980.
-mcgrew' (no mod points? Then go to the firehose and vote my article down! It's the next best thing to burying this comment.)
Horses can go where no vehicle is (yet) able to go. Even dirt bikes won't go a lot of places horses can.
That said, there are other animals that are better suited than horses for mountainous terrain, although I have no idea if any of them are as intelligent or easily trained as a horse.
that should have been in the summary - but it does encourage one to read the article.;)
The only way for me to be encouraged to read TFA is if someone links a printer-friendly version. I'm not wading through fifty two paragraph screens. Or has C|NET renounced the madness and rehabilitated itself to the point that I would actually RT C|NET's FA?
In a C|Net story the other day I commented that I refused to go there, despite the fact that there is the off chance I might learn something that would increase my productivity because of tha two paras per screen and all the ads. When someone mentioned adblock and Firefox I replied that I was at work.
He said something along the lines of "you're a nerd, can't you install it without detection?"
As a 55 year old geezer, today's story confirms my suspicians: he's a 20 something whippersnapper.
What's sad is that the way I read the summary, it says these folks are security conscious but don't give a rat's ass about their employers' security. Guys, look, even I take my cell phone to work, but you should stop installing crap that you're not supposed to. It's not your computer and it's unethical and immoral to install something on a computer without its owner's permission. Would you install a nitrous kit to your employer-provided company car? Shades of Cheech and Chong!
It's not needed and won't help. Most of the UFO photos are pre-Photoshop and were done with different methods:
Have a small model of the UFO and fling it into the air high enough that there's no context. Although those CAN be detected, they can't by this software.
The objects are secret military aircraft, not alien craft. The hoax of alien craft is started by the government (pick one) to mask the true meaning of the object photoed. This software won't help with that, either
It's something else flying around up there. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a weather balloon? Is it ball lightning? Who knows? If it's a flying thing and you don't know what it is, then it's an Unidentified Flying Object. This tool won't help here, either.
This tool can't do anything someone trained in art can't do. The first thing you learn in art school is how to see. You can't draw if you can't see, and that's usually the biggest reason most people can't draw.
As one of my instructors used to say, "I don't know what I like but I know what art is."
For those of us outside merry old Englande, Merry Olde Yew Nark, or Merry Old Moosecow (IN soviet... never mind) Wikipedia says "Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a digital technology based in London, New York and Moscow. The company drew attention when it announced it was is in talks with some United Kingdom ISPs to deliver targeted advertising based on a user's profile."
Am I the only one who had to look it up? I thought "Is phorming like phishing"?
For the humorless cretin who mods me down for linking uncyclopedia, since there is no uncyclopedia entry for Phorm I'll link something that sounds similar.
Well, you're right. What the biggest problem is, is that the media talk of singers and sports stars and actors when they should be reporting on politicians and what those asshats are doing. I couldn't possibly care less whether or not some baseball player is on crack or steroids.
But why should I worry about some British politician's sex scandals? It's not like I can much affect anything that happens in British politics. If one of their politicians rattles sabers at the US then it would be newsworthy. If one of them is getting impeached for lying about a blow job and it's costing the British taxpayers forty million dollars than that would be newsworthy as well.
Most of what is in most newspapers I don't consider to be news at all. If it has no chance of affecting me personally, it's just gossip.
Yeah, loke I said... how about Clown known as Klutzo gets new name (There was another clown named Klutzo who was arrested for molesting children and then died in jail when a fat jailer sat on hime, links to news items in the linked journal). Or more newsworthy, Taylorville deaths possibly a murder-suicide. How many peopl outside Chicago (that don't read the Chicago newspapers) know about he drunken off-duty cop that beat a small woman bartender senseless, and the other bad cops in Chicago that make me want to not go to Chicago unless absolutely necessary?
I picked a bad example. I knew better, which makes me an idiot.
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Talk to most people about domestic spying or the abuses of the Patriot Act, and they say something like, "Well, if you're not doing something bad, who cares if the government is watching?"
Not in the bars I drink at!
this is bottom up. if msnbc suddenly reports more on science in more amounts of time your average slashdotter finds acceptable, msnbc's ratings go down.
No, if they present the news in an uninteresting or nonunderstandable way the ratings go down. Most high school kids hate science class because "science is boring." Well, science isn't boring, their science teacher is boring!
If you have some ignorant dumbass who hates science because his science teacher put everyone to sleep then yes, ratings will go down. But PBS' Cosmos had good ratings, because there was an articulate scientist presenting the show.
If you know a high school science teacher, smack him upside the head for doing such a shitty job.
-mcgrew
Link: UnNews:New York governor linked to prostitution, approval rating skyrockets
We're doomed to extinction if we don't stimulate the growth of genuine creativity and curiosity towards science and nature
A species' survival doesn't hings on how intelligent its members are, it depends on procreation. We're not going to become extinct because we're stupid, if we become extinct it will be because of some global catastrophe that we, ourselves, will likely cause.
And it will be a catastrophe that couldn't have occurred had we not been smart enough to make atom bombs, automobiles, electricity, etc.
I'm so sorry, really. I'll go now.
And I get flamed for linking Uncyclopedia! (actually that link is on topic. Kinda. Well hell, how 'bout UnNews:Stars must "check science facts"?
Gees, tough room.
Who of the unwashed masses wants to think when watching TV?
The topic isn't "reality TV", it's news. You could say the same thing about political news. Nobody wants to think when they're watching The Simpsons, but they want to be educated when they're watching Nova. They want to be informed when watching the news.
some five hours of programming could pass with the average viewer seeing only one minute of science news coverage."
That would only be bad news if their reporting was factual and accurate, but they can hardly report on anything science-related without making some glaring error that any high school student should know is wrong.
It makes me wonder about their reporting on other aspects.
Even worse is the abysmal state of "educational" TV. One reason I dropped cable (besides the annual rate hike gougings) is channels like the Discovery channel. They used to have interesting topics - physics, astronomy, etc. Then it was all "how to chop a tractor-trailor into the world's largest motorcycle" or some such drivel.
Thanks, since it's one page I will read it.
OK, I read it. I'll be tempted to click on another C|NET link now. Someone should link to detroit Electric's web site, even though it does merit inclusion in WebPagesThatSuck.
Here is a link to photos of some of their vehicles. here are some press releases.
If you click the link from C|NET you get their splash page, which has a picture of a really cool looking futuristic car next to the antique.
Thanks!
Completely unrelated, but there's a clown^H^H^Hpolitician in London, and he wants to be mayor. The Times [timesonline.co.uk] says "It's always been difficult to imagine Boris running anything more complicated than a bath" which is pretty accurate...
You're lucky, he only wants to be Mayor. Look at the buffoon running my whole country!
I can't disagree with anything you are saying, but if a house burns down and you know the people who live there, it has a far greater impact than one burning down on the other side of the world.
Some people think Britney Spears drug problem is interesting, so now I can hardly open a newspaper without seeing "news" about Britney Spears' custody fight and drug problem, despite the fact that I've never met the overpriced slut and likely never will. It's the worst sort of gossip.
News of your Prime Minister does, indeed, interest me. News of other cultures' politics does interest me, but I'm not likely to get an unbiased viewpoint on it from the AP.
It was a poor illustration on my part. The floods in Europe were covered here.
"What, your TV doesn't have a v-chip?" No, but my hand certainly has a "back".
I don't know where this originated, but the Bellamy Brothers have a very similar song that Google can't seem to find the lyrics to.
I had a drug problem when I was young: I was drug to church on Sunday morning. I was drug to church for weddings and funerals. I was drug to family reunions and community socials no matter the weather.
I was drug by my ears when I was disrespectful to adults. I was also drug to the woodshed when I disobeyed my parents, told a lie, brought home a bad report card, did not speak with respect, spoke ill of the teacher or the preacher. Or if I didn't put forth my best effort in everything that was asked of me. I was drug to the kitchen sink to have my mouth washed out with soap if I uttered a profane four letter word. I was drug out to pull weeds in mom's garden and flower beds and cockleburs
out of dad's fields.
I was drug to the homes of family, friends, and neighbors to help out some poor soul who had no one to mow the yard, repair the clothesline or chop some fire wood. And if my mother had ever known that I took a single dime as a tip for this kindness, she would have drug me back to the wood shed.
Those drugs are still in my veins; and they affect my behavior in everything I do, say, and think. They are stronger than cocaine, crack, or heroin, and if today's children had this kind of drug problem, America might be a better place today.
Hey, you're wrong. I don't have the same ID as then but I assure you I was here then. Although I admit that I didn't drink quite as much.
4) As for electric cars, there are a lot of myths. Here they are, all broken down [daughtersoftiresias.org] for you.
"Give me a report on your employees, broken down by age and sex"
"Well, sir, that would just be mcgrew."
But you are right that $700/year was the average annual income back in the 20s
"Average" (what a statistician calls "mean") means nothing here. If ten people make $10k/yr and #11 makes $10m, the average person is a millionaire, but the mean is dirt-poor.
BINGO! The inflation statistics come from the rear of a cow's mate. For instance, they say gasolione "adjusted for inflation" is cheaper than it was in 1980. Having actually been driving for over twn years then, I can tell you that it was NOT the case.
Inflation takes into account only what something costs, not what you have to buy it. And it takes the cost of things you don't buy and ignores things you do buy. A Lamborgini is factored into the cost of inflation, as is a 60 inch plasma HiDef TV, while the cost of a normal TV has dropped.
Gasoline drives inflation, as everything has to be transported including the fuel to transport the goods.
When I see some goober say gasoline is cheaper than in 1980 I point him to the minimum wage stats (and when the minimum rises so does almost everyone else's) compared to toda, and he finds that a minimum wage worker spends far more time working to pay for a gallon of gas than he did in 1980.
-mcgrew'
(no mod points? Then go to the firehose and vote my article down! It's the next best thing to burying this comment.)
Horses can go where no vehicle is (yet) able to go. Even dirt bikes won't go a lot of places horses can.
That said, there are other animals that are better suited than horses for mountainous terrain, although I have no idea if any of them are as intelligent or easily trained as a horse.
that should have been in the summary - but it does encourage one to read the article. ;)
The only way for me to be encouraged to read TFA is if someone links a printer-friendly version. I'm not wading through fifty two paragraph screens. Or has C|NET renounced the madness and rehabilitated itself to the point that I would actually RT C|NET's FA?
In a C|Net story the other day I commented that I refused to go there, despite the fact that there is the off chance I might learn something that would increase my productivity because of tha two paras per screen and all the ads. When someone mentioned adblock and Firefox I replied that I was at work.
He said something along the lines of "you're a nerd, can't you install it without detection?"
As a 55 year old geezer, today's story confirms my suspicians: he's a 20 something whippersnapper.
What's sad is that the way I read the summary, it says these folks are security conscious but don't give a rat's ass about their employers' security. Guys, look, even I take my cell phone to work, but you should stop installing crap that you're not supposed to. It's not your computer and it's unethical and immoral to install something on a computer without its owner's permission. Would you install a nitrous kit to your employer-provided company car? Shades of Cheech and Chong!
-mcgrew
No. I want answers and I wanted them back when the church would persecute you for publishing them!
You won't like it. You really won't like it.
The answer to life, the universe, and everything is...
Forty-two.
- Have a small model of the UFO and fling it into the air high enough that there's no context. Although those CAN be detected, they can't by this software.
- The objects are secret military aircraft, not alien craft. The hoax of alien craft is started by the government (pick one) to mask the true meaning of the object photoed. This software won't help with that, either
- It's something else flying around up there. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it a weather balloon? Is it ball lightning? Who knows? If it's a flying thing and you don't know what it is, then it's an Unidentified Flying Object. This tool won't help here, either.
This tool can't do anything someone trained in art can't do. The first thing you learn in art school is how to see. You can't draw if you can't see, and that's usually the biggest reason most people can't draw.As one of my instructors used to say, "I don't know what I like but I know what art is."
-mcgrew
No, trolls aren't to be feared, they're to be pitied. Here in Springfield we do our trolling offline.
Bread golems are to be feared.
"OHH GOD!!! IT'S KILLING ME! But it's so tasty and delicious... AAAHHHH!!! STOP!! NOOOO!!! Where's the butter?"
~ Oscar Wilde on Bread Golems
"In Pre-Soviet Russia, Trollstoy"
-mcgrew
For those of us outside merry old Englande, Merry Olde Yew Nark, or Merry Old Moosecow (IN soviet... never mind) Wikipedia says "Phorm, formerly known as 121Media, is a digital technology based in London, New York and Moscow. The company drew attention when it announced it was is in talks with some United Kingdom ISPs to deliver targeted advertising based on a user's profile."
Am I the only one who had to look it up? I thought "Is phorming like phishing"?
For the humorless cretin who mods me down for linking uncyclopedia, since there is no uncyclopedia entry for Phorm I'll link something that sounds similar.
Well, you're right. What the biggest problem is, is that the media talk of singers and sports stars and actors when they should be reporting on politicians and what those asshats are doing. I couldn't possibly care less whether or not some baseball player is on crack or steroids.
But why should I worry about some British politician's sex scandals? It's not like I can much affect anything that happens in British politics. If one of their politicians rattles sabers at the US then it would be newsworthy. If one of them is getting impeached for lying about a blow job and it's costing the British taxpayers forty million dollars than that would be newsworthy as well.
Most of what is in most newspapers I don't consider to be news at all. If it has no chance of affecting me personally, it's just gossip.
Yeah, loke I said... how about Clown known as Klutzo gets new name (There was another clown named Klutzo who was arrested for molesting children and then died in jail when a fat jailer sat on hime, links to news items in the linked journal). Or more newsworthy, Taylorville deaths possibly a murder-suicide. How many peopl outside Chicago (that don't read the Chicago newspapers) know about he drunken off-duty cop that beat a small woman bartender senseless, and the other bad cops in Chicago that make me want to not go to Chicago unless absolutely necessary?
I picked a bad example. I knew better, which makes me an idiot.