A PR stunt? Ahahahha.... This could risk/lose them BILLIONS of dollars. That would be a pretty fucking big PR stunt.
"bending over violently for commie murderers" This tells me that you are an idiot. Its the largest fucking country on the planet. Boiling the whole place down to commie murderers seems pretty fucking retarded.
They totally should... Have it set up so that you can just pay the gov to assassinate someone of your choosing for 50% of your net worth with a 10million dollar minimum. I'm sure after working out the kinks it'd benefit society.... I guess heads of state would get exempted... or maybe have a counter offer system available.
In some schools statistics are a commonly taken math credit to go with a CS degree. When the CS people do them they are hilariously easy, most CS majors ace them. I think that leads programmers to think that stats are easy. May or may not be true, maybe it picks up in 3rd year, maybe my school is an aberration. Maybe stats are just easier than CS in the general case.
"The company's first device plugs into any iPod, iPhone or smartphone with a 3.5 mm jack. The new version, which is $130, is wireless and works with iPods and other MP3 players, as well as home speaker systems. "
Apparently only the iphone has a 3.5mm jack now...Lame
Another thing about twitter being a thing of the iGeneration... It is true that lots of young kids use it. BUT it is also true that a huge portion of twitter users are over 35 as well (35+ greatly outnumbering younger people). So clearly something is missing. Also twitter started (really) 1 year ago, peaked 6months ago and has lost 20% of its user base since then. I don't know if it can be used to describe a whole generation.... Unless I'm the pog generation, defined by liking plastic chips... perhaps making me a future gambler.
They have actually ran this in a few places around the world. Some even working on subway scale... I believe NY had a tube subway. It is unsurprisingly uncosteffective and unreliable.
"This from a Canadian no less (personally I think we should give automatic landed immigrant status to anyone that speaks English or French, has no criminal record and has a 4 year degree in anything remotely useful). Our countries are founded on immigration, this seems like a no-brainer to me!"
Canadian here as well and I 100% agree with your whole post.:D My GF is from the US has a 4 year degree from a good school, finished near the top of her class and is getting a teacher's degree. That her immigration status is questionable is quite ridiculous. She also learned some basic french and took Canadian history... Essentially the way it is set up is that you can't move here until you get offered a job... And the employer must state that no suitable Canadian could be found, and they must promise to keep you for a certain time period. Getting that in today's economy is nigh impossible.
Parent's post is a good example of why we need this. The level of delusion is worrying.
"Have you forgotten that the father of the scientific method was a devout Christian?" Who?... The greeks Aristotle/Socrates?... Obviously not christian. The muslims, Alhazen? Seriosuly NOT christian. Descartes?? The guy lived during the time of Galileo and feared the church would kill him... his books banned by the church. Francis Bacon was Anglican in name only. And never made any shows of support for the church. John Stuart Mill? Not remotely religious neither were his parents. He refused to go to oxford/cambrige because they were christian/anglican...
So I really don't know who you could mean. Newton had nothing to do with the scientific method, he made calculus, worked on physics, and yes he was quite religious. BTW he was regarded as an occultist heretic by the catholic church.
Anyways I'm sure today the vast majority of scientific researchers are non-religious, >95% probably >98%.
I'm sure atheists don't go an mail the researchers no. BUT atheists don't threaten them with bodily harm. They don't leave bombs on the front step. They vote to increase funding into research. They understand the value of the research and are thankful for it if not directly.
(Yes this is all generally speaking, there will be overlap both ways)
I meant that people don't react to fur coats. They are reacting to the piss spit sweat and blood of the creature its self.... unless the fur coat was reallllly poorly cleaned you should be ok.
Well I understand that end of things too. That is how it does work. I was referring to how you want it to work. If he said it is unreasonable given current political climate I'd give it to him... GP didn't understand why you'd want laws like this at all.
Nut allergies affect >1% of the population. In addition nuts are very common on planes. To add to that a plane recycles the air and it is an enclosed area.
On the other hand fur allergy is a myth, people are allergic to different types of animals. Animals are NOT allowed on planes with the people anyways.
I don't know whether the danger is big enough to have this. I think that on most planes there will be avg,.25 persons with a severe nut allergy. The chance of them sitting within 2seats of someone eating nuts is maybe 25%. They should be given an unquestioned seat change if one is available. Or they could be moved to a misc staff seat (there's guaranteed to be at least 1 extra). I think that that would be more than sufficient. I suppose they decided this was easier?/safer?
Anyways, point is your comparison is a little unfair
The difference is the laws. In your example the laws applied are unhealthy and supporting one group. Or hurting open source. This is bad because it doesn't support new products, new innovations, competition or cost effective spread of products. Those are pretty much the only reasons laws should be in place... to create a better market. A market that the people want.
In the music business stupidity we see the opposite happening. Laws are being created, exist or modified in ways that make the market WORSE. Copyright law for example should exist only to encourage a great variety of quality performances available to as many as possible. Currently it fails at that and is getting worse. We then rebel against it.
Is the idea that the government works for _us_ really that complicated a concept?
"Worldwide, it is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals are used annually, along with a great many more invertebrates." (nearly 75% being rats and mice, monkeys being ~.09%) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing
The majority of these are done in countries with ethics commissions, were the science easy to replicate without the use of animals they'd have done so. This science makes it to products/information which does save peoples lives. Therefore, by stopping animal research the number of human saving advances occurring each year would drop dramatically. This would result in greater mortality than there would be otherwise, perhaps not massive.
That you don't seem to think animals are that important for research, and that you think we should 'strive to be humane' simply tells me you've never spoken to anyone in the field about it nor been inside a research lab. The animals are respected as can be in many places, I've even heard of some schools holding annual memorial services for the critters. There are ethics boards and rules to be followed.
And the reality of it is that sometimes there are cruel things you will need to do to test things, learning about cancers means we need to keep (likely mice) with cancer. Cancer sucks... that's why they are doing research on it.
I want to have people saved by doctors/hospitals to sign a form saying that they were saved by science, research and hard-work, entirely without the assistance of God.
I imagine the researchers get a bit frustrated when they spend 3 years of their life figuring out a cure to something using scientific research... The doctor spends hours applying the vast quantities of knowledge he's gained through school. In the end, GOD gets the thanks??? The doctor gets a nod, and the researchers get ZERO recognition. How the fuck does that work?
Misreported. No cctv cameras are in people's homes. There are 5~6 families that are forced to lived on government land because of misbehaving. It is offered as an alternative to jail for people with kids.
I mean it is crappy and all but not nearly as evil as wired/you put it.
The official site does give me the chills in some places. Though, they don't seem to go beyond what is normal in most neighborhoods (Even in the US), the way they phrase things is a bit much for me.
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A PR stunt? Ahahahha.... This could risk/lose them BILLIONS of dollars. That would be a pretty fucking big PR stunt.
"bending over violently for commie murderers"
This tells me that you are an idiot. Its the largest fucking country on the planet. Boiling the whole place down to commie murderers seems pretty fucking retarded.
Not pneumatic.... thatd be a maglev train... in a vacuum sealed tube
"If you're a homeopath that's worse, isn't it?"
Generally speaking? Yeah, being a homeopath is a pretty bad sign.
They totally should... Have it set up so that you can just pay the gov to assassinate someone of your choosing for 50% of your net worth with a 10million dollar minimum. I'm sure after working out the kinks it'd benefit society.... I guess heads of state would get exempted... or maybe have a counter offer system available.
In some schools statistics are a commonly taken math credit to go with a CS degree. When the CS people do them they are hilariously easy, most CS majors ace them. I think that leads programmers to think that stats are easy. May or may not be true, maybe it picks up in 3rd year, maybe my school is an aberration. Maybe stats are just easier than CS in the general case.
Likely this guy is just a douche though.
"I mean, he said we're going to die if we don't learn statistics, but he never gave a compelling argument for it."
... I felt compelled that he was a loon.
Sure he did, the article was entitled: 'Programmers Need To Learn Statistics Or I Will Kill Them All'
Even more terrifying:
"The company's first device plugs into any iPod, iPhone or smartphone with a 3.5 mm jack. The new version, which is $130, is wireless and works with iPods and other MP3 players, as well as home speaker systems. "
Apparently only the iphone has a 3.5mm jack now...Lame
Don't worry, you can add emacs to firefox in an addon.
Another thing about twitter being a thing of the iGeneration... It is true that lots of young kids use it. BUT it is also true that a huge portion of twitter users are over 35 as well (35+ greatly outnumbering younger people). So clearly something is missing. Also twitter started (really) 1 year ago, peaked 6months ago and has lost 20% of its user base since then. I don't know if it can be used to describe a whole generation.... Unless I'm the pog generation, defined by liking plastic chips... perhaps making me a future gambler.
But with a twitter update you can only get together with people that use twitter, there is your flaw...
(I couldn't help it, sorry
They have actually ran this in a few places around the world. Some even working on subway scale... I believe NY had a tube subway. It is unsurprisingly uncosteffective and unreliable.
Duke Nukem Forever actually predates Did Not Finish. Where did you think the phrase came from?
"This from a Canadian no less (personally I think we should give automatic landed immigrant status to anyone that speaks English or French, has no criminal record and has a 4 year degree in anything remotely useful). Our countries are founded on immigration, this seems like a no-brainer to me!"
:D My GF is from the US has a 4 year degree from a good school, finished near the top of her class and is getting a teacher's degree. That her immigration status is questionable is quite ridiculous. She also learned some basic french and took Canadian history... Essentially the way it is set up is that you can't move here until you get offered a job... And the employer must state that no suitable Canadian could be found, and they must promise to keep you for a certain time period. Getting that in today's economy is nigh impossible.
Canadian here as well and I 100% agree with your whole post.
There is something positive to be said for a well educated populace mind you...
Parent's post is a good example of why we need this. The level of delusion is worrying.
... The greeks Aristotle/Socrates? ... Obviously not christian.
"Have you forgotten that the father of the scientific method was a devout Christian?"
Who?
The muslims, Alhazen? Seriosuly NOT christian.
Descartes?? The guy lived during the time of Galileo and feared the church would kill him... his books banned by the church.
Francis Bacon was Anglican in name only. And never made any shows of support for the church.
John Stuart Mill? Not remotely religious neither were his parents. He refused to go to oxford/cambrige because they were christian/anglican...
So I really don't know who you could mean. Newton had nothing to do with the scientific method, he made calculus, worked on physics, and yes he was quite religious. BTW he was regarded as an occultist heretic by the catholic church.
Anyways I'm sure today the vast majority of scientific researchers are non-religious, >95% probably >98%.
I'm sure atheists don't go an mail the researchers no. BUT atheists don't threaten them with bodily harm. They don't leave bombs on the front step. They vote to increase funding into research. They understand the value of the research and are thankful for it if not directly.
(Yes this is all generally speaking, there will be overlap both ways)
I meant that people don't react to fur coats. They are reacting to the piss spit sweat and blood of the creature its self.... unless the fur coat was reallllly poorly cleaned you should be ok.
Well I understand that end of things too. That is how it does work. I was referring to how you want it to work. If he said it is unreasonable given current political climate I'd give it to him... GP didn't understand why you'd want laws like this at all.
"Many members of the church took several hours out of their week to hold prayerful vigils. That's a tremendous expenditure of effort."
:/ That'd be awesome if it did. :D
Not helpful though, studies show that prayer does not actually help.
Nunavut only has 0.015idiots/km^2. That's gotta be better than most places.
Nut allergies affect >1% of the population. In addition nuts are very common on planes. To add to that a plane recycles the air and it is an enclosed area.
.25 persons with a severe nut allergy. The chance of them sitting within 2seats of someone eating nuts is maybe 25%. They should be given an unquestioned seat change if one is available. Or they could be moved to a misc staff seat (there's guaranteed to be at least 1 extra). I think that that would be more than sufficient. I suppose they decided this was easier?/safer?
On the other hand fur allergy is a myth, people are allergic to different types of animals. Animals are NOT allowed on planes with the people anyways.
I don't know whether the danger is big enough to have this. I think that on most planes there will be avg,
Anyways, point is your comparison is a little unfair
The difference is the laws. In your example the laws applied are unhealthy and supporting one group. Or hurting open source. This is bad because it doesn't support new products, new innovations, competition or cost effective spread of products. Those are pretty much the only reasons laws should be in place... to create a better market. A market that the people want.
In the music business stupidity we see the opposite happening. Laws are being created, exist or modified in ways that make the market WORSE. Copyright law for example should exist only to encourage a great variety of quality performances available to as many as possible. Currently it fails at that and is getting worse. We then rebel against it.
Is the idea that the government works for _us_ really that complicated a concept?
"Worldwide, it is estimated that 50 to 100 million vertebrate animals are used annually, along with a great many more invertebrates." (nearly 75% being rats and mice, monkeys being ~.09%)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_testing
The majority of these are done in countries with ethics commissions, were the science easy to replicate without the use of animals they'd have done so. This science makes it to products/information which does save peoples lives. Therefore, by stopping animal research the number of human saving advances occurring each year would drop dramatically. This would result in greater mortality than there would be otherwise, perhaps not massive.
That you don't seem to think animals are that important for research, and that you think we should 'strive to be humane' simply tells me you've never spoken to anyone in the field about it nor been inside a research lab. The animals are respected as can be in many places, I've even heard of some schools holding annual memorial services for the critters. There are ethics boards and rules to be followed.
And the reality of it is that sometimes there are cruel things you will need to do to test things, learning about cancers means we need to keep (likely mice) with cancer. Cancer sucks... that's why they are doing research on it.
Warning: Not totally ontopic.
I want to have people saved by doctors/hospitals to sign a form saying that they were saved by science, research and hard-work, entirely without the assistance of God.
I imagine the researchers get a bit frustrated when they spend 3 years of their life figuring out a cure to something using scientific research... The doctor spends hours applying the vast quantities of knowledge he's gained through school. In the end, GOD gets the thanks??? The doctor gets a nod, and the researchers get ZERO recognition. How the fuck does that work?
Misreported. No cctv cameras are in people's homes. There are 5~6 families that are forced to lived on government land because of misbehaving. It is offered as an alternative to jail for people with kids.
I mean it is crappy and all but not nearly as evil as wired/you put it.
The official site does give me the chills in some places. Though, they don't seem to go beyond what is normal in most neighborhoods (Even in the US), the way they phrase things is a bit much for me.
http://www.asb.homeoffice.gov.uk/default.aspx