Notice how much fun we would have if citizens reported the locations of all the police cars and speed traps? But no, they get to track us, where I'm sure "for a fee" the media can snoop to find out if the pastor went to the atheist rally or something.
The key to a really good branch of a Borders or a B&N is to have a "top shelf" (pun intended) selection buyer. The times that the buyer of my branch has put A level stuff on the shelves it sold.
I am a different type of buyer than most of the people in this thread. In particular, I am amazed at the chorus of "I like reviews". I have never read a review in my life. Instead, look *at the book*. It's right there.
Look at it with a Reverse Teal Deer (too long didn't read) - instead for me it's "too short - didn't buy". I spent cumulative days at each of several sections. All told my private library is retail over $2000. At different points I knew the gist of practically every book in the entire store for those sections. Only then was that enough context to know what to have them special order.
However, the cameras take their pictures while driving, so there'd be nothing tocompare them to.... Except some other driver in a car who looks like them -- I see your point now.
Yes, thank you! I had to endure about three RTFA comments because of my bad phrasing.
Yeah, there seems to be a tone change here - "why would anyone use ____" - isn't that different from when we welcomed the Niche stuff? Is the ridicule only because this was in Permanent Development?
I think I see some small benefit in getting this (and Duke Nukem) Out The Door in whatever state they are in. Now that it's Out The Door, can we just turn right around and rip out a couple juicy bits of code and slam them into Linux? Is any of it Prior Art to fight the stupid lawsuits with?
All you IAALs out there, can we get some ThisIsAdviceButNotLegalAdvice?
Motorcycle riders would escape this system, wouldn't they? And they are almost the only group allowed to wear helmets.
I thought I read (but it may have been an unreputable source) that we are allowed to wear helmets while driving our cars. Is that true? Or do the other characteristics of driving cars such as different view ranges negate that legality?
What if a cop pulls you over and actually states that he doesn't like you wearing your helmet?
When you're at Cash Zero and you need a $4,000 used auto, you borrow it. But then recognize how evil the loan is and crush yourself to pay it off ASAP. I did mine with a Credit Card and not a fixed payment because some months you don't have all $300 for a payment.
Sure there are tons of places where they went a little over the top, but Apple took an open source core and did all the UI work that FOSS folks put off for a decade. It's as simple as that. It's "BSD on the desktop", followed by "2nd derivative of BSD on the phone".
All their recent patent / lawsuits stuff is typical big $ corp games. "FOSS honesty" starts to creak when the dollars flow in. Google managed Not To Be Evil for a couple of years, but then they had to Just Do Stuff against nasty competitors.
I appear to be using the net in a 100% different way than everyone else on this entire thread.
Trying to be on topic, I'll start by replying to you.
My GPS taught me to navigate. Yes, *without it*. Here's why. I have a memory black hole for visual-spatial road info. I simply cannot visualize where roads go if they curve. So if I had to go somewhere new, sure, I start with the printed net map. Then I'd miss a turn, then make a random panicked second turn, and it would be all over. I'd lose an hour grinding my way back to a First Principle. (Freeway). The reason is that the roads "just sit there". They're just roads. You turn down on one, "yay, you're on a road." But it's the wrong one, so I'd feebly try to fix it. "Look, another road! They're twisty and all alike!"
With a GPS, because it corrects the optimal route, it produces a new "turn here" *better than the random twisty roads next to it". My *Verbal* memory is pretty good - so I remember that if I missed one road, the way to fix it is "go there instead".
I have learned more about navigating with a GPS in 2 years than the 25 before that.
Meanwhile, for the "look it up" crowd, I for one can't look *all* of it up - I hit the limits of your short term inbound load really fast. So I try to judge the overall quality of the info vs how many times I'll use that whole set of knowledge, and do put some work into "almost knowing" it. "Yes, you do need to know your times tables" because you need your *intuition* to fire. I'm an accounting liaison. You have to know *roughly* what 358,945 times 15% is instantly so that when you're staring at a contract clause in a meeting with a Shark, you can fire back that you want the lump sum profit of $55,000, not Estimated Price plus 15%. You don't have time to go "look in a book".
Depression is one of the most elusive complicated states.
Without scrutinizing those studies for the sake of a simple slashdot post, those studies are not the same as "anti-depressants do nothing at all". The slippery word here is "better".
Part of the horrific downside to Big Pharma anti-depressants SSRI-class is they are not "modular", aka you can't just take take some for a week to get past a slump. They take some two weeks to properly kick in past initial gyro-ing, and another 2 weeks on the back end if you want to quit.
So a placebo may actually win out by being less intrusive.
In Social Web 2.0 some scary things emerge from taking your nice statement and playing musical chairs with the words.
(Modified from Talderas' original) "People are just products. Mark Zuckerberg defines your worth and thus his own through who he uses via who you associate with."
"Is there any research into what turns affinity for a product into to the need to be a dick about it?"
Yes. Hang on to your hat because it's a far more serious issue than you think!
Because people's self worth is increasingly swirled into what they buy, so when people dis' what they buy, it's three degrees from an insult to them for making a poor choice. Not counting stuff you're shoved into at work etc, a key part of all of life is Doing Stuff You Like. Usually this takes accessories, of all price ranges. So except for the famous discussion of cheap vs quality etc, you get right back to "what you like".
Now for the zinger. Switch the topic from "purchases" to "religion" and watch the sparks fly!
What are the two different paths you would take between how you think now and if you did become convinced of the worst case scenarios?
I have already begun the arduous process of whitelisting/certifying/etc almost every bit of data on my computer "in case" of "next year's law" of a computer search etc. By now we all know we're not in 1999's free-wheeling Napster world, which to my mind is almost the kickoff point of all this. I really believe it is at the point that citizens have to do enterprise grade content management on their PC's because the copyright on that LongCat is worth more than your house.
But all that big money paid for a few of the best political manipulators around. Those guys ARE competent. They're playing the US masses like an instrument.
Wikileaks was lucky the first time, but then.Gov began an over-dramatized crusade to shut it down. Remember that five newspapers originally planned to carefully issue key information... then lo and behold that idea magically went away?
I'm positive there's false flag stuff going on *somewhere around* Anonymous, LulzSec, and the other groups. Quick guess is a second tier member or two fanning on the excitement or re-directing attacks to "prepared targets". Why else do you think the media is getting custom made scoops to plaster in easy-to-paste snips?
This whole thing reads like a chess game, and there are a minimum number of moves to make between Life As We Know It to Big Brother in a Brave New World.
So you get some signature "threats", then Ask For A Committee, Then Save the US with Important Measures etc..Gov isn't quite leading the groups, but they're definitely manipulating the overall picture. They're like Ben Linus in Lost.
"Oh my gawds these terrorist groups! The little children can't play on the internets - uh wait, there are no children in either of those groups, only Juvenile Terrorists, which are not children anymore!"
Slashdot Mirror
Because Power is Fun. This will be more Power, and so Paypal can have more fun.
We laughed at the "Tin Foil Hat" guys too long - now the real news stories are putting the xFiles to shame, minus the supernatural parts.
Notice how much fun we would have if citizens reported the locations of all the police cars and speed traps? But no, they get to track us, where I'm sure "for a fee" the media can snoop to find out if the pastor went to the atheist rally or something.
"What? They don't sell Mug or A&W?"
Nope! Those would make business sense!
Round 2 of The World Will Never Be The Same Again game has begun!
"In a Post Anonymous World, you will need a passport stamp for every bit you download."
The key to a really good branch of a Borders or a B&N is to have a "top shelf" (pun intended) selection buyer. The times that the buyer of my branch has put A level stuff on the shelves it sold.
I am a different type of buyer than most of the people in this thread. In particular, I am amazed at the chorus of "I like reviews". I have never read a review in my life. Instead, look *at the book*. It's right there.
Look at it with a Reverse Teal Deer (too long didn't read) - instead for me it's "too short - didn't buy". I spent cumulative days at each of several sections. All told my private library is retail over $2000. At different points I knew the gist of practically every book in the entire store for those sections. Only then was that enough context to know what to have them special order.
I was amazed and annoyed that they didn't even have real sodas! No Coke or Pepsi or Mountain Dew or Sprite or 7 up.
Instead you had to buy strange expensive caffeine free root beer or fruit sodas etc.
There is! It's 'Underrated"!
gknoy said,
However, the cameras take their pictures while driving, so there'd be nothing tocompare them to.... Except some other driver in a car who looks like them -- I see your point now.
Yes, thank you! I had to endure about three RTFA comments because of my bad phrasing.
Yeah, there seems to be a tone change here - "why would anyone use ____" - isn't that different from when we welcomed the Niche stuff? Is the ridicule only because this was in Permanent Development?
I think I see some small benefit in getting this (and Duke Nukem) Out The Door in whatever state they are in. Now that it's Out The Door, can we just turn right around and rip out a couple juicy bits of code and slam them into Linux? Is any of it Prior Art to fight the stupid lawsuits with?
So far it is, however I am pursuing the Pandoras Box theory of the news, which is "what is the next step of the current iteration"?
Not yet.
My question still stands. I am thinking ahead to the next iteration of this stuff.
All you IAALs out there, can we get some ThisIsAdviceButNotLegalAdvice?
Motorcycle riders would escape this system, wouldn't they? And they are almost the only group allowed to wear helmets.
I thought I read (but it may have been an unreputable source) that we are allowed to wear helmets while driving our cars. Is that true? Or do the other characteristics of driving cars such as different view ranges negate that legality?
What if a cop pulls you over and actually states that he doesn't like you wearing your helmet?
This is Legal Speak for Confirmed.
Thread Over.
Nah, don't go all hardline.
When you're at Cash Zero and you need a $4,000 used auto, you borrow it. But then recognize how evil the loan is and crush yourself to pay it off ASAP. I did mine with a Credit Card and not a fixed payment because some months you don't have all $300 for a payment.
Sure there are tons of places where they went a little over the top, but Apple took an open source core and did all the UI work that FOSS folks put off for a decade. It's as simple as that. It's "BSD on the desktop", followed by "2nd derivative of BSD on the phone".
All their recent patent / lawsuits stuff is typical big $ corp games. "FOSS honesty" starts to creak when the dollars flow in. Google managed Not To Be Evil for a couple of years, but then they had to Just Do Stuff against nasty competitors.
Sorry, mini whiney-rant coming!
I appear to be using the net in a 100% different way than everyone else on this entire thread.
Trying to be on topic, I'll start by replying to you.
My GPS taught me to navigate. Yes, *without it*. Here's why. I have a memory black hole for visual-spatial road info. I simply cannot visualize where roads go if they curve. So if I had to go somewhere new, sure, I start with the printed net map. Then I'd miss a turn, then make a random panicked second turn, and it would be all over. I'd lose an hour grinding my way back to a First Principle. (Freeway). The reason is that the roads "just sit there". They're just roads. You turn down on one, "yay, you're on a road." But it's the wrong one, so I'd feebly try to fix it. "Look, another road! They're twisty and all alike!"
With a GPS, because it corrects the optimal route, it produces a new "turn here" *better than the random twisty roads next to it". My *Verbal* memory is pretty good - so I remember that if I missed one road, the way to fix it is "go there instead".
I have learned more about navigating with a GPS in 2 years than the 25 before that.
Meanwhile, for the "look it up" crowd, I for one can't look *all* of it up - I hit the limits of your short term inbound load really fast. So I try to judge the overall quality of the info vs how many times I'll use that whole set of knowledge, and do put some work into "almost knowing" it. "Yes, you do need to know your times tables" because you need your *intuition* to fire. I'm an accounting liaison. You have to know *roughly* what 358,945 times 15% is instantly so that when you're staring at a contract clause in a meeting with a Shark, you can fire back that you want the lump sum profit of $55,000, not Estimated Price plus 15%. You don't have time to go "look in a book".
Depression is one of the most elusive complicated states.
Without scrutinizing those studies for the sake of a simple slashdot post, those studies are not the same as "anti-depressants do nothing at all". The slippery word here is "better".
Part of the horrific downside to Big Pharma anti-depressants SSRI-class is they are not "modular", aka you can't just take take some for a week to get past a slump. They take some two weeks to properly kick in past initial gyro-ing, and another 2 weeks on the back end if you want to quit.
So a placebo may actually win out by being less intrusive.
Yep!
Everyone alive can be turned into walking bombs!
Sodium Peroxide is an Oxidizer, and everyone produces nice half-pound lumps of moisty stuff which will catch on fire!
Now they will have to pass a law requiring enemas to fly!
In Social Web 2.0 some scary things emerge from taking your nice statement and playing musical chairs with the words.
(Modified from Talderas' original)
"People are just products. Mark Zuckerberg defines your worth and thus his own through who he uses via who you associate with."
"Is there any research into what turns affinity for a product into to the need to be a dick about it?"
Yes. Hang on to your hat because it's a far more serious issue than you think!
Because people's self worth is increasingly swirled into what they buy, so when people dis' what they buy, it's three degrees from an insult to them for making a poor choice. Not counting stuff you're shoved into at work etc, a key part of all of life is Doing Stuff You Like. Usually this takes accessories, of all price ranges. So except for the famous discussion of cheap vs quality etc, you get right back to "what you like".
Now for the zinger. Switch the topic from "purchases" to "religion" and watch the sparks fly!
What are the two different paths you would take between how you think now and if you did become convinced of the worst case scenarios?
I have already begun the arduous process of whitelisting/certifying/etc almost every bit of data on my computer "in case" of "next year's law" of a computer search etc. By now we all know we're not in 1999's free-wheeling Napster world, which to my mind is almost the kickoff point of all this. I really believe it is at the point that citizens have to do enterprise grade content management on their PC's because the copyright on that LongCat is worth more than your house.
Nah, I'm sure there's lots of loose ends.
But all that big money paid for a few of the best political manipulators around. Those guys ARE competent. They're playing the US masses like an instrument.
I was clear enough the first time AC.
Wikileaks was lucky the first time, but then .Gov began an over-dramatized crusade to shut it down. Remember that five newspapers originally planned to carefully issue key information... then lo and behold that idea magically went away?
I'm positive there's false flag stuff going on *somewhere around* Anonymous, LulzSec, and the other groups. Quick guess is a second tier member or two fanning on the excitement or re-directing attacks to "prepared targets". Why else do you think the media is getting custom made scoops to plaster in easy-to-paste snips?
This whole thing reads like a chess game, and there are a minimum number of moves to make between Life As We Know It to Big Brother in a Brave New World.
So you get some signature "threats", then Ask For A Committee, Then Save the US with Important Measures etc. .Gov isn't quite leading the groups, but they're definitely manipulating the overall picture. They're like Ben Linus in Lost.
"Oh my gawds these terrorist groups! The little children can't play on the internets - uh wait, there are no children in either of those groups, only Juvenile Terrorists, which are not children anymore!"
Obligatory Denver!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0aTPc66lfk