Let me get this straight with 92% of the population believing in God and 8% atheist. If the 8% of Athiest had a IQ of 103 then the other 92% would have a score of 99.7, you are not doing much for your statement that athesist are smarter.
Clearly people with IQs approaching 0 do not believe in God. Therefore, if the average for all atheists is 103, then non-retarded/non-coma-patient atheists must have IQs approaching 200!
"the ultimate effect of a conservative ideology is a third world country: a rich upper class of a few, and a vast underclass of poor"
The ultimate effect of a liberal ideology is a third world country: a rich elite ruling class of a few, and a vast underclass of dependents of the state.
can you point to such a society for me please? this is a pleasant fiction to support your bankrupt thinking, as this country doesn't even exist
You are incorrect. While the largest such country ceased to exist 1991, there are a few that still exist, including North Korea and Cuba.
Agriculture and human culture have had profound effects on the natural selection of other species. To wit: the individuals "fittest" for survival near humans are usually the tastiest, most docile specimens, and they are the ones that get (are forced) to breed. How long until Soylent Green is on the menu?;)
I trained all of my users to do screenshots when possible, because if they don't, the machine gets re-imaged. It's kind of like a shock collar for a dog.
I just re-image them on a random schedule in the middle of the night. It's like the electrodes that psych students attach to mice's water bottles to see how strong the urge to drink is.
I kept getting a 'wrong password. please make sure your caps lock key is off' message. I was typing in all lowercase. It reminded me how stupid error messages can be and how they can make you start to ignore them because of that.
It's better than "I noticed you typed all lowercase letters, and your username is in the system, but you typed the wrong passphrase. You want the one that begins with 'd' and has 19 characters. By the way, you misspelled turkey."
it may seem like a policy that governs spending. Instead what it is is a policy that drives UNNECESSARY SPENDING.
I've seen this in both academic and corporate scenarios.
For the academics, they tended to waste their grant money on truly unnecessary things: "Yes, this ipod touch is for my computational research; it is my portable storage drive." "This Nvidia Whizbang graphics card is for the research machine I brought home with me last year. It's totally unrelated to the RAM, power supply, computer case, hard drive, motherboard and UV reactive fans from last month's purchase (and they were all unrelated to each other)."
In corporate, most of the unnecessary spending is only temporarily unnecessary. Almost every time we bought an extra few machines, we were happy we had them when XYZ emergency came up and ate through what our normal emergency stock would have been.
The major disaster from Katrina was that it took the government[s - city, state, and federal -] so long to respond after the storm hit to help those that were stuck.
FTFY
The living underneath sea level line is old also. Every area in the country is succesptible to some sort of natural disaster. Be it hurricanes, tornadoes, earth quakes , mud slides, snow storms etc. So are we not supposed to live in any of those areas?
With the possible exception of mud slides, none of the above are human engineered disasters (unless you count choosing where to live). Living under sea level, you're doomed to flooding at some point, and since it took human engineering to live under sea level, it was (and still is) entirely preventable. Katrina was made so dangerous _because_ of the poor city design. New Orleans is like Galloping Gertie (Tacoma Narrows Bridge), except it's Too Big To Fail (TM).
Is it like an Andrew? Because I hate Andrews. (Andys are okay, but Andrews really get my goat. Andes are right out.)
I didn't even read the summary because the title is stupid.
If others are going to try and conduct discourse with loaded terms like "piracy" when the mean copyright infringement, then we should do the same and brand them fascists and the like.
"Fascists" isn't a strong enough term to draw attention or disgust. Brand them child-rapists or satanists.
You are so correct. And the "not so funny thing" about the Toyota thing is, the cars were made in America, in Kentucky or West Virginia...hummmmmmmm....Japan outsourced to us, and got "Bad workmanship" we "Outsource to India", and they become the new American dream, well all except that pesky little thing called "Child labor laws." But the way our country is going, we might all be bidding for the chance to get a B1 visa to go work in India in the next few years and take those Jobs away from those kids....
Hiring 15 year olds is illegal? Quick, someone tell the authorities about McDonalds!
I usually see an 18 yo high school graduate who learned spanish as a second language acting as a translator for a crew of very responsible and capable adults in their 30's and 40's.
"We have evidence that you downloaded X songs (attach a list) for which we own the copyrights. We would like to settle this matter quietly and without legal action. To that end, we would accept a settlement of X * 1.5 dollars in order to resolve this matter. In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs in question via one of the listed services (iTunes, etc) If you decline this offer, we suggest you retain a lawyer and have them contact our legal department."
Which labels? The labels on the CDs? Change "In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs in question via one of the listed services (iTunes, etc)" to "In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs by allowing you to keep this digital compact disc." Essentially, "We're suing everyone, including you. Buying this CD is your only defense."
Underage employment and involuntary labor often go hand in hand. I assume involuntary labor means slavery where someone earns a wage (otherwise "involuntary labor" is just a euphemism for slavery).
You know, this being Slashdot and continuing with the "nerd in his parent's basement" theme, I would say that finding a girlfriend would qualify, but I've discovered that only very rarely do girlfriends come without some form of DRM.
That's strange. Considering the negligible resale value of "girlfriends" that/.'ers are likely to buy, I would think that DRM would be pointless (since DRM is really about used-sales and sharing, not actual piracy). Of course, if you meant "copy protection", not piracy, then *real* girlfriends do often require that to prevent unwanted copies. Paradoxically, they've also been known to promote copy protection, but purposefully make it ineffective to make sure copies get out there.
it is freaky in that, if so, it means we are getting our logic applied to us. or even, maybe, mysteriously inheriting the logic of our 'overseers'.
if both coincide, than it means we may be denied advanced technology, medicine, and whatnot, just like we deny those stuff to genuine tribes to preserve their 'originality' and their 'way of life'.
With one exception: the tribesmen are human, the same as us. The aliens? Maybe they're human too, but much more likely they're not (if they exist). If the tribesmen suddenly develop radio all on their own, we would laud them and bring them into our modern society. The aliens might *want* us to remain as we are; if we develop FTL drives, they may look at us as a television character that walked out of the screen: shock, horror, grab the nearest ultimate nullifier and pull the trigger...
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When I read GP, I couldn't stop giggling. It's so poorly worded. I'm sure it's a meme of some sort, but it's funny in its own right.
Evolution has no direction. It is just change to better suit an environment.
It's not even that. It is just change, without any goal.
What you describe is Mutation. I think GP was closer to the mark.
Let me get this straight with 92% of the population believing in God and 8% atheist. If the 8% of Athiest had a IQ of 103 then the other 92% would have a score of 99.7, you are not doing much for your statement that athesist are smarter.
Clearly people with IQs approaching 0 do not believe in God. Therefore, if the average for all atheists is 103, then non-retarded/non-coma-patient atheists must have IQs approaching 200!
"the ultimate effect of a conservative ideology is a third world country: a rich upper class of a few, and a vast underclass of poor"
The ultimate effect of a liberal ideology is a third world country: a rich elite ruling class of a few, and a vast underclass of dependents of the state.
can you point to such a society for me please? this is a pleasant fiction to support your bankrupt thinking, as this country doesn't even exist
You are incorrect. While the largest such country ceased to exist 1991, there are a few that still exist, including North Korea and Cuba.
Agriculture and human culture have had profound effects on the natural selection of other species. To wit: the individuals "fittest" for survival near humans are usually the tastiest, most docile specimens, and they are the ones that get (are forced) to breed. How long until Soylent Green is on the menu? ;)
I trained all of my users to do screenshots when possible, because if they don't, the machine gets re-imaged. It's kind of like a shock collar for a dog.
I just re-image them on a random schedule in the middle of the night. It's like the electrodes that psych students attach to mice's water bottles to see how strong the urge to drink is.
I kept getting a 'wrong password. please make sure your caps lock key is off' message. I was typing in all lowercase. It reminded me how stupid error messages can be and how they can make you start to ignore them because of that.
It's better than "I noticed you typed all lowercase letters, and your username is in the system, but you typed the wrong passphrase. You want the one that begins with 'd' and has 19 characters. By the way, you misspelled turkey."
it may seem like a policy that governs spending. Instead what it is is a policy that drives UNNECESSARY SPENDING.
I've seen this in both academic and corporate scenarios.
For the academics, they tended to waste their grant money on truly unnecessary things: "Yes, this ipod touch is for my computational research; it is my portable storage drive." "This Nvidia Whizbang graphics card is for the research machine I brought home with me last year. It's totally unrelated to the RAM, power supply, computer case, hard drive, motherboard and UV reactive fans from last month's purchase (and they were all unrelated to each other)."
In corporate, most of the unnecessary spending is only temporarily unnecessary. Almost every time we bought an extra few machines, we were happy we had them when XYZ emergency came up and ate through what our normal emergency stock would have been.
...I thought Bing (But It's Not Google) was a "Decision Engine". :-)
It hasn't told me where I want to go today or any day yet.
Google's algorithms learn less common search terms better than others because many more people are conducting searches on these terms on Google.
Google is better because Google is better?
A Katrina is a storm that hates black people.
I know Storm is a mutant and all, but she does know she's black, right?
The major disaster from Katrina was that it took the government[s - city, state, and federal -] so long to respond after the storm hit to help those that were stuck.
FTFY
The living underneath sea level line is old also. Every area in the country is succesptible to some sort of natural disaster. Be it hurricanes, tornadoes, earth quakes , mud slides, snow storms etc. So are we not supposed to live in any of those areas?
With the possible exception of mud slides, none of the above are human engineered disasters (unless you count choosing where to live). Living under sea level, you're doomed to flooding at some point, and since it took human engineering to live under sea level, it was (and still is) entirely preventable. Katrina was made so dangerous _because_ of the poor city design. New Orleans is like Galloping Gertie (Tacoma Narrows Bridge), except it's Too Big To Fail (TM).
Is it like an Andrew? Because I hate Andrews. (Andys are okay, but Andrews really get my goat. Andes are right out.)
I didn't even read the summary because the title is stupid.
I found the ps3 drm quite unintrusive. I just pop in a disc and it works. It doesn't even ask for a serial number. What's your problem?
His problem is what this article is about.
If others are going to try and conduct discourse with loaded terms like "piracy" when the mean copyright infringement, then we should do the same and brand them fascists and the like.
"Fascists" isn't a strong enough term to draw attention or disgust. Brand them child-rapists or satanists.
You are so correct. And the "not so funny thing" about the Toyota thing is, the cars were made in America, in Kentucky or West Virginia...hummmmmmmm....Japan outsourced to us, and got "Bad workmanship" we "Outsource to India", and they become the new American dream, well all except that pesky little thing called "Child labor laws." But the way our country is going, we might all be bidding for the chance to get a B1 visa to go work in India in the next few years and take those Jobs away from those kids....
At least those kids in India live in the most enivonmentally friendly living conditions known to man.
Hiring 15 year olds is illegal? Quick, someone tell the authorities about McDonalds!
I usually see an 18 yo high school graduate who learned spanish as a second language acting as a translator for a crew of very responsible and capable adults in their 30's and 40's.
Seriously, the labels needs to start with this:
"We have evidence that you downloaded X songs (attach a list) for which we own the copyrights. We would like to settle this matter quietly and without legal action. To that end, we would accept a settlement of X * 1.5 dollars in order to resolve this matter. In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs in question via one of the listed services (iTunes, etc) If you decline this offer, we suggest you retain a lawyer and have them contact our legal department."
Which labels? The labels on the CDs? Change "In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs in question via one of the listed services (iTunes, etc)" to "In return, we will arrange for you to have legal digital versions of the songs by allowing you to keep this digital compact disc." Essentially, "We're suing everyone, including you. Buying this CD is your only defense."
I voted for Obama because he clearly was the better one (unless you are ignorant or stupid.)
Ooo, preemptive ad hominem. I'd better not reply lest I admit I'm ignorant or stupid.
Core violations of ASCC 'include abuse, underage employment, involuntary labor, [...]
Underage employment and involuntary labor often go hand in hand. I assume involuntary labor means slavery where someone earns a wage (otherwise "involuntary labor" is just a euphemism for slavery).
You know, this being Slashdot and continuing with the "nerd in his parent's basement" theme, I would say that finding a girlfriend would qualify, but I've discovered that only very rarely do girlfriends come without some form of DRM.
That's strange. Considering the negligible resale value of "girlfriends" that /.'ers are likely to buy, I would think that DRM would be pointless (since DRM is really about used-sales and sharing, not actual piracy). Of course, if you meant "copy protection", not piracy, then *real* girlfriends do often require that to prevent unwanted copies. Paradoxically, they've also been known to promote copy protection, but purposefully make it ineffective to make sure copies get out there.
And if you reverse the charge on your card? Your account is suspended and you lose ALL your games.
That sounds dangerously close to illegal.
Does anyone else feel mildly offended every time they see that stupid hat icon they use for Australian stories now?
Would you prefer a banana hammock?
can we have the text please? (Preferably in a human language)
Sorry, it's written in French.
it is freaky in that, if so, it means we are getting our logic applied to us. or even, maybe, mysteriously inheriting the logic of our 'overseers'. if both coincide, than it means we may be denied advanced technology, medicine, and whatnot, just like we deny those stuff to genuine tribes to preserve their 'originality' and their 'way of life'.
With one exception: the tribesmen are human, the same as us. The aliens? Maybe they're human too, but much more likely they're not (if they exist). If the tribesmen suddenly develop radio all on their own, we would laud them and bring them into our modern society. The aliens might *want* us to remain as we are; if we develop FTL drives, they may look at us as a television character that walked out of the screen: shock, horror, grab the nearest ultimate nullifier and pull the trigger...