What does higher defence budgets and being pro-capital punishment have to do with being right wing (i.e. being in favour of commerce and small government)?
Did the most assuredly left-wing former communist nations have tiny proportional defence spending and no capital punishment?
A. Wikipedia has no original information (in theory), it is a repository of cites, so it's a poor choice for what could be accomplished by people using their leisure time to work and actually create something new.
B. What could have been done by all the people reading about this study? And these are intelligent, slashdot-people. Well, some of them.
C. How much productivity, measured in Swimming-Pool-Empire-State-Building-Einstein-Years, is lost by not embracing genetic manipulation to improve average intelligence and produce a master race?
Well, taste is subjective - I think it's a great show.
I wouldn't compare it to The Office, which I didn't like, and seemed to be centred on terrible characters unknowningly embarrassing themselves by virtue of their lousy personalities.
It's more about incompetently dealing with events. Events in space.
Yes, it's less joke-centred then Red Dwarf, but then it doesn't have a laughter-track, which is a plus, and has a bit of political satire thrown in (Britain playing second fiddle to the US, etc). Two entirely different, equally entertaining shows, IMO.
Yes, that's the irony. When they were non-shit (but not great IMO), they were threatening file sharers with physical violence (IIRC), along with their legal activism.
Now they are shit and terrible and void of creativity, and are suddenly in favor of other distribution methods.
Ambiguity is probably in women's interest. Just like ovulation being hidden from men, unusually in the animal world (which makes men compete sexually for women constantly, and not just at particular times).
Probably gives women greater power (or rather, it increases the statistical chance of the genes of a particular woman being successfully passed on, which is all natural cares about).
In the 60s and 70s yes. But nowadays college kids stand by like sheep and watch as a fellow student is tazered for asking a question. They are by and large spineless.
The fact that he ignores dimensional analysis renders it unphysical bullshit.
I'm not a fan of string theory either, because it has yet to produce any empirical predictions. But it's not intrinsically logically flawed, like this is.
A better analogy would be an expert in C pointing out a glaring flaw in the logic of someone's source code.
Predicting the success/failure of a product is more of an art than a science, whereas physics is most assuredly a science, and Motl is a very knowledgeable physicist.
People on the whole prefer reading something tangible to staring at a screen, especially for in-depth articles, but those magazines put off a lot of people with exorbitant prices (at least on this side of the Atlantic).
Because as of yet there is no real chance of any conflict breaking out any time soon, yet there is plenty of geopolitical point scoring going on, and this will help the Chinese in that area.
Er, there are 10,000 sheep and 7759 IP addresses. So, roughly two thirds could have drawn just one each, and one third could have drawn just two each. Hardly excessive.
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What does higher defence budgets and being pro-capital punishment have to do with being right wing (i.e. being in favour of commerce and small government)?
Did the most assuredly left-wing former communist nations have tiny proportional defence spending and no capital punishment?
But surely actual facts and decisions are less important than the frequency of the words HOPE and CHANGE in speeches?
A. Wikipedia has no original information (in theory), it is a repository of cites, so it's a poor choice for what could be accomplished by people using their leisure time to work and actually create something new.
B. What could have been done by all the people reading about this study? And these are intelligent, slashdot-people. Well, some of them.
C. How much productivity, measured in Swimming-Pool-Empire-State-Building-Einstein-Years, is lost by not embracing genetic manipulation to improve average intelligence and produce a master race?
D. Yawn.
Well, taste is subjective - I think it's a great show.
I wouldn't compare it to The Office, which I didn't like, and seemed to be centred on terrible characters unknowningly embarrassing themselves by virtue of their lousy personalities.
It's more about incompetently dealing with events. Events in space.
Yes, it's less joke-centred then Red Dwarf, but then it doesn't have a laughter-track, which is a plus, and has a bit of political satire thrown in (Britain playing second fiddle to the US, etc). Two entirely different, equally entertaining shows, IMO.
Yes, that's the irony. When they were non-shit (but not great IMO), they were threatening file sharers with physical violence (IIRC), along with their legal activism.
Now they are shit and terrible and void of creativity, and are suddenly in favor of other distribution methods.
You need to watch Hyperdrive. It's like some kind of cross between Blake 7 and The Mighty Boosh. Sort of.
The dude should be a bit more subtle than "telling the girl he likes her". That will turn off most women, I think.
Organizing a party for her is a good idea if combined with some subtle but existent flirting.
Best of all would be ensuring he's alone with her at some point when she's drunk.
Debug code before posting it, that python script doesn't run.
How much does it cost to train a soldier?
How much does a soldier returning home with fewer limbs cost society?
Ambiguity is probably in women's interest. Just like ovulation being hidden from men, unusually in the animal world (which makes men compete sexually for women constantly, and not just at particular times).
Probably gives women greater power (or rather, it increases the statistical chance of the genes of a particular woman being successfully passed on, which is all natural cares about).
Religions are just successful cults, and money/power drives all cults.
That's ok Samantha. Just don't let it happen again.
In the 60s and 70s yes. But nowadays college kids stand by like sheep and watch as a fellow student is tazered for asking a question. They are by and large spineless.
European parliaments regularly consider laws that are the equal of this in terms of stupidity.
Eg, the UK government recently tried to make it illegal to commit blasphemy against any religion. They eventually watered down the legislation.
Democracy is a terrible system of government, but every other system is worse.
They obviously don't make console wars like this any more:
http://advancedmn.com/article.php?artid=10303
Politics, idiocy, CEOs engaging in childish name calling, censorship, back firing strategies....
Mod me down for being slightly off topic, but know this: I am right to wallow in nostalgia.
The fact that he ignores dimensional analysis renders it unphysical bullshit.
I'm not a fan of string theory either, because it has yet to produce any empirical predictions. But it's not intrinsically logically flawed, like this is.
A better analogy would be an expert in C pointing out a glaring flaw in the logic of someone's source code.
Predicting the success/failure of a product is more of an art than a science, whereas physics is most assuredly a science, and Motl is a very knowledgeable physicist.
This is garbage. Pure and simple.
For eg., look at Lubos Motl's blog entry on the subject:http://motls.blogspot.com/
A media-frenzy over horseshit that makes precisely zero sense.
A. It's not upside down. I can see the Arabian peninsula and africa, and they face the right way.
B. They could take an "upside down" picture of Earth by rotating the camera or orbiter 180 degrees. "Upside down" is fairly meaningless in space.
How dare you say that about my mother, she was a saint!
I'm burying this.
If sales go down, lower the price.
People on the whole prefer reading something tangible to staring at a screen, especially for in-depth articles, but those magazines put off a lot of people with exorbitant prices (at least on this side of the Atlantic).
Because as of yet there is no real chance of any conflict breaking out any time soon, yet there is plenty of geopolitical point scoring going on, and this will help the Chinese in that area.
The US military can look forward to thirty or so years of such surprises until China achieves technological parity.
Er, there are 10,000 sheep and 7759 IP addresses. So, roughly two thirds could have drawn just one each, and one third could have drawn just two each. Hardly excessive.