Any ID is fakeable, but it's better to have one difficult to copy, to reduce the chances of that happening, and easier to investigate if it does happen.
I recently moved to Taiwan, and there are literally about 8 scooters for every car/truck/van on the road. Because the scooters are more common, they are given the de facto right of way, and cars are the cast-outs. I live in Taipei, a city of over 2 million people, and I've yet to see a car<->scooter accident.
It's a shame that scooters aren't viable as all-year transportation in nordic climates. I've seen families of 4 pack onto one 100cc scoooter with groceries and put around safely. It's pretty funny, actually.
OK, seriously. If I had a name that could in any way be mispronounced as something like "Anal Rage," I'd seriously consider changing it before attempting to do anything noteworthy.
The pronunciation would actually be "uh-'NEEL rOj".
Of course, "Kneel and Roger" doesn't bring any positive mental images either. I give up. Call the guy Ima Fockyerdodder.
When I saw it I got all of the relevant information I could gather and called the local FBI office, and the local police department. Neither group even seemed interested in my call. The FBI told me to contact my ISP, my ISP told me to contact the local police, local police told me to contact the FBI
A buddy of mine once got a 3-way runaround (for a far less serious issue than yours, of course), and solved it by calling all three parties on a conference call and having them duke it out in full view.
It gets pretty hard to bullshit about someone when you're speaking directly to that someone.
Interestingly, 20% seems to be the cusp of where a business underdog can start to seriously content with a superior. I can't point to any causality, but there seems to be a strong correlation between 20% market share and realistic market contention.
Standard Oil was down to 80% by the time they had to halt their monopolistic practices, and DeBeers has had less of a stranglehold on the diamond market since they slipped down below 80%.
I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but I've seen them. This is just an unscientific personal observation, but it's easy to imagine that 20% might be some point where the market finally has to start acknowledging you. After all, 20% of any first-world market is a pretty handsome chunk.
Suppose I design an evolution process that is effective at creating workable systems, then by your claim, my design (evolution) must be oversimplistic, inflexible, assumes fixed conditions, and cannot function beyond specification.
It most certainly would.
Evolution isn't some flowchart of fixed and discrete processes. It's simply the result of the survival of the fittest. You can't design it, any more than you can design Schroedinger's cat.
...proposed that some larger macropredators would have needed to revert from predation to scavenging in adulthood is guilty of dumbassery of the highest order.
A very simple counter-example exists. Watch a documentary about a large, muscle-bound, lumbering grizzly bear snatching a leaping fish out of thin air.
Otherwise a neat find marred by an article economical on content.
Isn't that exactly what the ISPs are doing, however? That's why people are complaining in the first place, is because their torrents are getting a low priority.
Good point -- however, ISPs are also throttling these connections down below their advertised per-user throughput rates, which is false advertising. If they don't offer me 1.5 megabits for ever second I want to use my internet connection, they shouldn't call it 1.5Mbps, now should they?
What I don't get is why Spyglass didn't sue MS for a percentage of their entire OS business when Microsoft claimed in the anti-trust case that IE is an essential part of the OS.
Not only that, but many cancers are now curable if caught early enough.
I'm not sure if this was your intention, but you're actually refuting the parent -- if people are surviving cancer, that leads to cancer deaths being an under-estimate of the rate of cancer in a given society
It is not reasonable to start leaping to wild-assed conclusions about carcinogens, cell phones, and conspiracies.
Nor is it reasonable to dismiss valid problems as wild-assed conclusions (despite the tone of the parent). You seem to be under the (sadly-common) illusion that the human species is bound to an ever-improving and progressive condition. The facts disagree with you.
All the major indicators of general health -- adult height (Americans are getting smaller and smaller, and are quite smaller than the Frenchmen of the time of Charlemagne, who averaged a solid 6'), lifespan (see: Mediterranean, 3000 years of recorded history. see also: United States, modern-day), physical capacities (less-well recorded, but the anecdotal evidence of the past 200 years is overwhelming -- and look at the stock price of Robaxacet) -- they all point to a widespread decline in general health since the invention of penicillin. The fact that we can revive people, and operate in response to cardiac troubles doesn't magically make these people 'healthier'. It just makes them 'not dead'.
While there is likely some truth that people are dying of cancer because they're surviving other previously-common perils, it's naive to believe that cancer is just another symptom of old age. If so, why is the average lifespan of the modern first-world citizen not growing at a rate concurrent with the curing of the #1 killer, heart disease?
Imagine a new line of German schnaps being promoted with those crossed symbolic fasces. It would -- understandibly -- cause an outrage.
Understandably. And stupidly. The delusional mass hysteria facing the swastika (and indeed all things supposedly-Nazi) is one of the more disheartening symptoms of the prevailing hypocrisy and idiocy of the hoi polloi in western society.
But new Russian vodkas continue to proudly display the murderous Red Star, and the above mentioned tools.
I think that all modern science, and probably all science through history as well, has to make assumptions for the sort "this must have happened."
Close. These scientific "assumptions" don't really take the form of "this must have happened". To paraphrase the scientific method: "this is what is most likely to have happened, and here is why, and here are several transparent, peer-reviewed and arbitrarily reproducible experiments that support the conclusion".
Science has an element of circular thinking in it. Evolutionary theory is nothing special in that regard.
Science isn't about "thinking about stuff", it's about hypotheses supported by factual findings. Read a book.
No, in case it's not plain yet, I am attacking the project because it claims to have significant benefits for children in Third World countries on one level (education, Internet access), while distracting attention and money from solving more fundamental problems (food, health).
That's a valid concern. But it doesn't consitute a coherent criticism, until you can present proof that this project is, or has the potential to, distract attention and money from solving more fundamental problems. Let alone the fact that a lot of these issues are, from a financing standpoint, orthogonal -- this completely negates the validity of any concerns that money spent on A is directly and proportionally better spent than money spent on B.
Or, for an alternative explanation, I work for an international nonprofit (working to improve healthcare in developing nations) and have heard these issues raised many, many times. They are hardly mine alone.
You've dedicated yourself to a laudable cause, and I congratulate you for it. But reference this post earlier in the thread -- The Third World isn't one giant country with a population that consists entirely of starving 8-year-olds. Different nations have different needs, and some of them just might need a $100 laptop.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous. I know a lot of people who don't know how to hunt, skin, clean, and butcher their own meat because they just go to the grocery store and buy it. It's sad, really.
You probably think you're being sarcastic, but you're not. Look at the obesity epidemic in the USA, and its growing trend in Canada, and look at what are the most easily-available prepared foods. Compare that with countries in which the prevailing custom is to actually cook your own damn food. If you don't think American obesity is sad, spend some time in any other part of the world and just watch the women go by. Hell, spend some time around Americans or Canadians who cook most of their own meals!
Have you ever considered that basic math skills might not be necessary for much longer?
I know this question wasn't directed at me. But yes, I have. I routinely calculate approximate costs, taxes, long division (sometimes those large cereal boxes are actually more expensive, because people just blindly buy in bulk) and tipping rates in my head to keep my mind sharp. When I worked in a restaurant, I was the cash register for 3 hours during a noon rush when our computers went down.
I was once stuck at a Winners cash register for about 7 minutes because my purchased item cost $17.76 and I gave the girl $20.01. She had to take a few tries on the keypad, then get the manager to come over and cancel out all the false transactions. Tragically, her name was "Scholastica". And no, I'm not joking.
If anyone stays in the passing lane for more than 2 miles, this fuck is on their ass, regardless of speed, highbeams fading their paint.
You can call this guy as many "fucks" as you want: the fact that he is able to tailgate someone in the passing lane means that the person in front of him is at fault. If it takes 2 miles to pass someone, they're spending a dangerous amount of time in someone's blind spot, and should speed up or return to the right lane.
I saw a documentary on road rage a while ago, where a man was driving in the left lane with his wife in the passenger seat. He was being tailgated in the passing lane, and was high-beamed and honked at by the driver behind him. He gave the car the finger. The car veered into the right lane, pulled up next to him, and shot his wife in the face.
You're right to avoid the "asshole lane", but do keep in mind that your acrimony at the mere existence of a passing lane is selfish and misdirected, and shared by very few people in the western world.
And it wasn't until a few months ago that everyone started bitching and griping about the passing lane.
I don't know what planet YOU'RE from. Stand-up comics have been ranting about the passing lane ever since "white dudes walk like this; black dudes walk like this" got old.
You think a $100 laptop project -- working with $29 million dollars donated by some tech companies -- has surpassed the Gates Foundation's $10 billion in donations to nonprofits (particularly to solve health issues in Third World countries)?
A quaint, but disingenious way of attacking the parent. You do realise that the point of a NPO is to help people, not to clothe them in arbitrary amounts of cash, right? Or do you think that because The Apache Software Foundation brought in less than $25 000 in 2005, and IIS brought in over $17 billion, that IIS is 708 000 times better than Apache?
The whole POINT of Negroponte's $100 laptop project is that it is inexpensive. In case it's not plain yet, let me point out that you are attacking this project because of your apparent disapproval of its most laudable and impressive quality.
Try working in the international nonprofit sector for awhile, you'll start getting ticked at Negroponte too. These kids needs nutrition, vaccines, and education.
I'll happily get ticked at Negroponte the very moment it's shown that he is discouraging medical and nutritional aid to these impoverished nations.
A laptop might help with the latter, but good teachers, clinics, and/or radio networks would solve this problem MUCH MORE CHEAPLY.
And, as we all know, any given problem is only allowed to be solved in one single Dekortage-approved manner.
Negroponte is a visionary, and I like him a lot, but in this case he is using a chainsaw to hammer a nail.
That's one of the most pointless quotations I've ever heard. Are you from Texas or something? You know these things aren't funny unless you say them in a drawl, right?
I'm not a big fan of Microsoft -- but if a thief steals from an tyrant, that doesn't make the thief's transgression any less severe or more permissible.
I'm happiest when bad things happen to bad people.
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You misspelled "many".
-GleeOr make motorcycles the majority.
I recently moved to Taiwan, and there are literally about 8 scooters for every car/truck/van on the road. Because the scooters are more common, they are given the de facto right of way, and cars are the cast-outs. I live in Taipei, a city of over 2 million people, and I've yet to see a car<->scooter accident.
It's a shame that scooters aren't viable as all-year transportation in nordic climates. I've seen families of 4 pack onto one 100cc scoooter with groceries and put around safely. It's pretty funny, actually.
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The pronunciation would actually be "uh-'NEEL rOj".
Of course, "Kneel and Roger" doesn't bring any positive mental images either. I give up. Call the guy Ima Fockyerdodder.
-GleeYou did, quite eloquently if I might say so. But you didn't design jack squat, any more than weeding my garden makes me a genetic engineer.
I won't if you won't.
-GleeA buddy of mine once got a 3-way runaround (for a far less serious issue than yours, of course), and solved it by calling all three parties on a conference call and having them duke it out in full view.
It gets pretty hard to bullshit about someone when you're speaking directly to that someone.
-Glee...become a patent lawyer.
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Interestingly, 20% seems to be the cusp of where a business underdog can start to seriously content with a superior. I can't point to any causality, but there seems to be a strong correlation between 20% market share and realistic market contention.
Standard Oil was down to 80% by the time they had to halt their monopolistic practices, and DeBeers has had less of a stranglehold on the diamond market since they slipped down below 80%.
I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head, but I've seen them. This is just an unscientific personal observation, but it's easy to imagine that 20% might be some point where the market finally has to start acknowledging you. After all, 20% of any first-world market is a pretty handsome chunk.
Any economists care to chime in?
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It most certainly would.
Evolution isn't some flowchart of fixed and discrete processes. It's simply the result of the survival of the fittest. You can't design it, any more than you can design Schroedinger's cat.
-GleeSo, is your first name pronounced "dotBruce", "periodBruce" or "stopBruce"? Or is the punctuation silent?
-Glee
...proposed that some larger macropredators would have needed to revert from predation to scavenging in adulthood is guilty of dumbassery of the highest order.
A very simple counter-example exists. Watch a documentary about a large, muscle-bound, lumbering grizzly bear snatching a leaping fish out of thin air.
Otherwise a neat find marred by an article economical on content.
-GleeAbout. Fucking. Time.
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About. Fucking. Time.
-Glee
Good point -- however, ISPs are also throttling these connections down below their advertised per-user throughput rates, which is false advertising. If they don't offer me 1.5 megabits for ever second I want to use my internet connection, they shouldn't call it 1.5Mbps, now should they?
-GleeWhat I don't get is why Spyglass didn't sue MS for a percentage of their entire OS business when Microsoft claimed in the anti-trust case that IE is an essential part of the OS.
-GleeI'm not sure if this was your intention, but you're actually refuting the parent -- if people are surviving cancer, that leads to cancer deaths being an under-estimate of the rate of cancer in a given society
-GleeNor is it reasonable to dismiss valid problems as wild-assed conclusions (despite the tone of the parent). You seem to be under the (sadly-common) illusion that the human species is bound to an ever-improving and progressive condition. The facts disagree with you.
All the major indicators of general health -- adult height (Americans are getting smaller and smaller, and are quite smaller than the Frenchmen of the time of Charlemagne, who averaged a solid 6'), lifespan (see: Mediterranean, 3000 years of recorded history. see also: United States, modern-day), physical capacities (less-well recorded, but the anecdotal evidence of the past 200 years is overwhelming -- and look at the stock price of Robaxacet) -- they all point to a widespread decline in general health since the invention of penicillin. The fact that we can revive people, and operate in response to cardiac troubles doesn't magically make these people 'healthier'. It just makes them 'not dead'.
While there is likely some truth that people are dying of cancer because they're surviving other previously-common perils, it's naive to believe that cancer is just another symptom of old age. If so, why is the average lifespan of the modern first-world citizen not growing at a rate concurrent with the curing of the #1 killer, heart disease?
-GleeUnderstandably. And stupidly. The delusional mass hysteria facing the swastika (and indeed all things supposedly-Nazi) is one of the more disheartening symptoms of the prevailing hypocrisy and idiocy of the hoi polloi in western society.
What about whiskies with American flags on them, then?
-Gleehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascals_wager
Close. These scientific "assumptions" don't really take the form of "this must have happened". To paraphrase the scientific method: "this is what is most likely to have happened, and here is why, and here are several transparent, peer-reviewed and arbitrarily reproducible experiments that support the conclusion".
Science isn't about "thinking about stuff", it's about hypotheses supported by factual findings. Read a book.
-GleeNot if you don't mind being the first person ever to be mugged by a stoner.
-Glee
No, in case it's not plain yet, I am attacking the project because it claims to have significant benefits for children in Third World countries on one level (education, Internet access), while distracting attention and money from solving more fundamental problems (food, health).
That's a valid concern. But it doesn't consitute a coherent criticism, until you can present proof that this project is, or has the potential to, distract attention and money from solving more fundamental problems. Let alone the fact that a lot of these issues are, from a financing standpoint, orthogonal -- this completely negates the validity of any concerns that money spent on A is directly and proportionally better spent than money spent on B.
Or, for an alternative explanation, I work for an international nonprofit (working to improve healthcare in developing nations) and have heard these issues raised many, many times. They are hardly mine alone.
You've dedicated yourself to a laudable cause, and I congratulate you for it. But reference this post earlier in the thread -- The Third World isn't one giant country with a population that consists entirely of starving 8-year-olds. Different nations have different needs, and some of them just might need a $100 laptop.
-GleeYeah, it's pretty ridiculous. I know a lot of people who don't know how to hunt, skin, clean, and butcher their own meat because they just go to the grocery store and buy it. It's sad, really.
You probably think you're being sarcastic, but you're not. Look at the obesity epidemic in the USA, and its growing trend in Canada, and look at what are the most easily-available prepared foods. Compare that with countries in which the prevailing custom is to actually cook your own damn food. If you don't think American obesity is sad, spend some time in any other part of the world and just watch the women go by. Hell, spend some time around Americans or Canadians who cook most of their own meals!
Have you ever considered that basic math skills might not be necessary for much longer?
I know this question wasn't directed at me. But yes, I have. I routinely calculate approximate costs, taxes, long division (sometimes those large cereal boxes are actually more expensive, because people just blindly buy in bulk) and tipping rates in my head to keep my mind sharp. When I worked in a restaurant, I was the cash register for 3 hours during a noon rush when our computers went down.
I was once stuck at a Winners cash register for about 7 minutes because my purchased item cost $17.76 and I gave the girl $20.01. She had to take a few tries on the keypad, then get the manager to come over and cancel out all the false transactions. Tragically, her name was "Scholastica". And no, I'm not joking.
Draw your own conclusions.
-GleeIf anyone stays in the passing lane for more than 2 miles, this fuck is on their ass, regardless of speed, highbeams fading their paint.
You can call this guy as many "fucks" as you want: the fact that he is able to tailgate someone in the passing lane means that the person in front of him is at fault. If it takes 2 miles to pass someone, they're spending a dangerous amount of time in someone's blind spot, and should speed up or return to the right lane.
I saw a documentary on road rage a while ago, where a man was driving in the left lane with his wife in the passenger seat. He was being tailgated in the passing lane, and was high-beamed and honked at by the driver behind him. He gave the car the finger. The car veered into the right lane, pulled up next to him, and shot his wife in the face.
You're right to avoid the "asshole lane", but do keep in mind that your acrimony at the mere existence of a passing lane is selfish and misdirected, and shared by very few people in the western world.
And it wasn't until a few months ago that everyone started bitching and griping about the passing lane.
I don't know what planet YOU'RE from. Stand-up comics have been ranting about the passing lane ever since "white dudes walk like this; black dudes walk like this" got old.
-GleeYou think a $100 laptop project -- working with $29 million dollars donated by some tech companies -- has surpassed the Gates Foundation's $10 billion in donations to nonprofits (particularly to solve health issues in Third World countries)?
A quaint, but disingenious way of attacking the parent. You do realise that the point of a NPO is to help people, not to clothe them in arbitrary amounts of cash, right? Or do you think that because The Apache Software Foundation brought in less than $25 000 in 2005, and IIS brought in over $17 billion, that IIS is 708 000 times better than Apache?
The whole POINT of Negroponte's $100 laptop project is that it is inexpensive. In case it's not plain yet, let me point out that you are attacking this project because of your apparent disapproval of its most laudable and impressive quality.
Try working in the international nonprofit sector for awhile, you'll start getting ticked at Negroponte too. These kids needs nutrition, vaccines, and education.
I'll happily get ticked at Negroponte the very moment it's shown that he is discouraging medical and nutritional aid to these impoverished nations.
A laptop might help with the latter, but good teachers, clinics, and/or radio networks would solve this problem MUCH MORE CHEAPLY.
And, as we all know, any given problem is only allowed to be solved in one single Dekortage-approved manner.
Negroponte is a visionary, and I like him a lot, but in this case he is using a chainsaw to hammer a nail.
That's one of the most pointless quotations I've ever heard. Are you from Texas or something? You know these things aren't funny unless you say them in a drawl, right?
-GleeI'm not a big fan of Microsoft -- but if a thief steals from an tyrant, that doesn't make the thief's transgression any less severe or more permissible.
I'm happiest when bad things happen to bad people.
-Glee