Is forming something like a Möbius strip or a Klein bottle allowed? Or am I thinking in a different direction?
I know a Klein bottle has weird characteristics; is it considered closed or simply connected?
I saw:(){:|:&};: floating around for years before I knew what it meant, but I never did work up the curiosity/courage/idiocy to dump it into a command line.
That being said... I'm amazed at how many people think there's some huge government conspiracy out to get them when they can't get simple stuff like this right. Sure, they can listen in on all cell phone calls... but they can't keep a list properly?
Do you really want to be in such a database when they incorrectly flag people as felons in this one, a database not built to sift for any indication of criminal behavior?
The Washington Posts reports that the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals.
How would you feel about the phone database or the Folsom Street secret room if they released numbers like this for the false positives there? Incompetence doesn't make the action not evil, and in cases like these, it can compound the offense.
It seems to me that they're not selling a whole package. You need to already have your own gun, the client, and you get the ammo from your peers in the swarm when they fire it at you (okay, so the analogy is a little stretched at this point). The only thing you're getting from TPB is directions as to where to point your bit torrent client.
You're allowed to react to the meaning however you like, but the only meaning that's in the painting that belongs there is the meaning that the artist put there. Everything else is imagined meaning.
People study the lives of authors to better understand what things mean in the context of their works. I've seen people get very worked up about whether or not Shakespeare had been to Venice or met Jews before writing his plays. I think that that's a bit extreme, but I've gained some better understanding of the plays that I read in school because of the context that was there as a backdrop to the piece of art itself.
This idea has always bothered me: "Who is the person trying to talk to me to tell me what they're trying to say? I should be able to put the words that I want to hear into their mouth."
It seems to me that no one is better qualified to interpret a work of art than the artist himself. Maybe the art evokes some childhood memory for the artist, or one of a million other things that could muddle the meaning by externalizing it.
To think that all meaning is in the person observing the art is just as pretentious as thinking that all the meaning is in the artist, but the artist is the creator of the piece; it's a reflection of the artist, at the very least. There would be no meaning there to discuss if the artist hadn't created it.
OK. I'm not normally a grammar Nazi, but if you'd like:
If it's slightly off (of/from) where it's required to be, small weights can be added to put it where it should (be).
"Some fine grained measures must also be taken for attitude control."
'measures' should be 'measurements'.
But these are all nit-picky things, and you're much more coherent than most of the native English speakers that I know.
Slashdot Mirror
On the gripping hand, Slashdot is an american website, and we all have two hands.
Is forming something like a Möbius strip or a Klein bottle allowed? Or am I thinking in a different direction? I know a Klein bottle has weird characteristics; is it considered closed or simply connected?
Isn't that like entering a pointer as your submission in the 'Most Information in 32 Bits' contest?
It's pretty cloudy; I dunno if he'll be able to see the joke whooshing by.
I saw :(){:|:&};: floating around for years before I knew what it meant, but I never did work up the curiosity/courage/idiocy to dump it into a command line.
That being said... I'm amazed at how many people think there's some huge government conspiracy out to get them when they can't get simple stuff like this right. Sure, they can listen in on all cell phone calls... but they can't keep a list properly?
Do you really want to be in such a database when they incorrectly flag people as felons in this one, a database not built to sift for any indication of criminal behavior?
The Washington Posts reports that the Social Security Administration has agreed to pay more than $500 million in back benefits to more than 80,000 recipients whose benefits were unfairly denied after they were flagged by a federal computer program designed to catch serious criminals.
How would you feel about the phone database or the Folsom Street secret room if they released numbers like this for the false positives there? Incompetence doesn't make the action not evil, and in cases like these, it can compound the offense.
I like:
"Soon there will be 2 kinds of people. Those who use computers, and those who use Apples." (Early 1980s)
Re: Your sig (I think we can keep recursing like this until someone returns 1.):
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It certainly falls at least under contempt of court and probably some kind of fraud, even if there's nothing specifically against it.
Well played, sir.
It seems to me that they're not selling a whole package. You need to already have your own gun, the client, and you get the ammo from your peers in the swarm when they fire it at you (okay, so the analogy is a little stretched at this point). The only thing you're getting from TPB is directions as to where to point your bit torrent client.
It's just crazy enough to work!
+1, relevant sig:
"But this one goes to 11!"
http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/teamamericaworldpolice/montage.htm
Team America allusion.
+1, Relevant Sig
I've heard it described (usually post-whoosh) as 'that which separates me from your idiocy'.
Yes, you have.
I don't suppose you've seen the Monty Python argument skit, have you?
here it is
+1, Convoluted
It might just be because it's 2:30 here, but I had to read that a couple times before what you were saying sank in.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_of_thermodynamics#Second_law
Even if some things last for a long time, nothing ever lasts forever.
Because it isn't as scary as a real gun, I would guess. It may also be cheaper.
The only thing missing is my new RFID implant.
Or so you think.
You're allowed to react to the meaning however you like, but the only meaning that's in the painting that belongs there is the meaning that the artist put there. Everything else is imagined meaning.
People study the lives of authors to better understand what things mean in the context of their works. I've seen people get very worked up about whether or not Shakespeare had been to Venice or met Jews before writing his plays. I think that that's a bit extreme, but I've gained some better understanding of the plays that I read in school because of the context that was there as a backdrop to the piece of art itself.
This idea has always bothered me: "Who is the person trying to talk to me to tell me what they're trying to say? I should be able to put the words that I want to hear into their mouth."
It seems to me that no one is better qualified to interpret a work of art than the artist himself. Maybe the art evokes some childhood memory for the artist, or one of a million other things that could muddle the meaning by externalizing it.
To think that all meaning is in the person observing the art is just as pretentious as thinking that all the meaning is in the artist, but the artist is the creator of the piece; it's a reflection of the artist, at the very least. There would be no meaning there to discuss if the artist hadn't created it.
OK. I'm not normally a grammar Nazi, but if you'd like:
If it's slightly off (of/from) where it's required to be, small weights can be added to put it where it should (be).
"Some fine grained measures must also be taken for attitude control."
'measures' should be 'measurements'.
But these are all nit-picky things, and you're much more coherent than most of the native English speakers that I know.