Clarification of purpose: maybe the best way to stop it is to get rid of the job market for it. One way to do that might be to blacklist job postings for it from automatically showing up on say...an article talking about the evils of captcha "cracking"?
This is likely because the last time SciFi ran a Firefly marathon (about 2 months ago, I believe), they started on the 5th episode from the beginning, and ran everything up to and including "Objects in Space." In other words, all 14 episodes can't fit between the hours of 8 and 6, so last time they showed the last 10, and this time they're showing the first 10.
As for the weekends, well that's their original movies/miniseries time. And as much as people might say about "Boa vs. Python" and its ilk, it's almost pure profit for them, and people DO watch. I was reading an interview with the writers of those flicks in Wired a few months back, and they said it perfectly: "Sometimes after a long work week, people just want mindless scifi." Plus, it's been well established that Friday 8-6 is their marathon time. Just be happy it's not The Hulk or Quantum Leap this time. Nothing wrong with those shows, they're just the usual Friday marathons.
I'm from (and still live in) the U.S. and do the same thing as you: itemizing large emails, etc. The replies often depend on who I'm e-mailing. If it's my boss, and it's between 9 and 5...I get a one line answer. If it's any time after 5 (No, my job never ends), I can usually expect a more lengthy response. My friend Chris, on the other hand, tends to reply in poetry.
Maybe it's more prevelant in the U.S...sure, you could argue it's a poor education system to blame, but you could also argue that U.S. companies are busier than UK companies, and hence can't respond as quickly or completely. I couldn't tell you either way, as I haven't worked at every company in the U.S. and the UK.
But despite what image our president portrays, not all of us are babbling idiots, just the voting majority...meaning the elderly, who tend to avoid those fancy Internets anyway.
if that's their target, they may want to consider lowering the price. No way I'd spend 2k for something a $300 PC could do (hell, I've gotten 5 PCs for free in the past week off craigslist alone...they're not the greatest, but they do 'net/email perfectly fine.)
You had me believing it could work like RHPS up until "SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like..." All the examples you gave reminded me more of would-be funny guys in high school that are more annoying than anything and less of some kind of "cult following" like RHPS has.
I have a mirror in front of my bed. If I'm laying down and I move, my cat will try to attack (play with) my reflection, but not me. If I do not move, the cat shows simply no interest in the mirror, or anything reflected by it, himself included. This tells me that he cannot discern the difference between mirror and reality (why else would he attack the reflection across the room, and not me right next to him making the same movements?), yet recognizes himself when looking at a mirror. Of course, if he doesn't know what a mirror is, that's gotta be pretty confusing for him...
Granted, I'm not much better. Every time I walk into a gym (which admittedly isn't often) and they have one of those full-wall mirrors, I'm fooled every time into the illogical conclusion that the room is gigantic.
Silly Nastard, this is a conversation that draws in the OSS community on a site that already largely attracts the OSS crowd. The mere existence of DRM makes it a mess, round here.
There is no middle-ground, rights management is evil, and anything that uses it must be burned.
Yes, because we all know evolution doesn't take millions of years. That the changes happen over night.
That one day, the ancestor of a monkey gave birth to a bald baby, and his name was Adam.
That mammals give birth to cephalopods.
Sure, the easy answer is that the common ancestor millions of years ago (a very simple, sea-dwelling creature) made a small shift through adaptations over time, resulting in the evolution of dog and octopus millions of years of evolution later, but that can't be true! We all know a new species is just born one day, all parts intact.
Despite how it sounds, I don't mean it racist.
First of all, we didn't evolve from monkeys, apes, baboons, or anything along those lines...we evolved from a species SIMILAR to them. Which is also similar to us. So people need to stop saying that.
Now that that's out of the way, I have never met a Creation-believing Christian I haven't been able to "flip" on evolution using the following logic, in a very calm manner. It works especially well if the other party is pregnant or the spouse of a pregnant woman.
0) You cannot attack the Christian's beliefs. Doing so just makes them not believe anything you say as they enter Zealot, and possibly Martyr-mode.
1) Determine the subject's race. If you want, just ask them.
2) Ask them the races of their birth parents. If they are mix-race, chances are if the first answer was "Irish-German" you'll get a response similar to "My mom is Irish, my dad is German"
3) If expecting a child, ask what race(s) their child will be. They'll probably look at you funny because you should know the answer.
4) Ask if they resemble anyone in their families, if they get any traits from another member of the family, what diseases run in the family, etc. When they answer, tell them "congratulations, you now understand the basic of genetics." This is quite possibly the toughest part of the flip, because it's not evolution that gives the Christian (well the one willing to think) reason to pause, but genetics. That genes are passed down from generation to generation, and that over time these genes mutate (which is why you asked about diseases). Simply passing your genes on is evolution on the most miniscule of scales.
5) If they're anemic, or know someone who is, this is great! Inform them of the malaryia-ridden areas of the world, and how those living in those areas evolved anemia to survive. Make sure they know that they didn't decide "crap we better become anemic or we'll all die!" but that only those in the area who weren't affected by malaryia survived, and the majority of those people were anemic, hence its existence today. That that is evolution on a tiny tiny tiny scale, but a little bit larger than simply passing your genes. Here is where we see "survival of the fittest." Make sure they know that "fittest" means "most fit to survive in the area at the time" and not "strongest"- because in this case, the inhabitants of the area got weaker to become more fit for survival.
6) Usually at this point they will realize that they agreed with evolution all along, but their church prevented them from admitting it. The thought that "God didn't make us the way we are now" is probably the largest hurdle for them to jump, but once they can see the cracks that we really aren't the same as we were when the bible was written, the fissures begin to grow. Usually they come to understand.
It doesn't hurt to tell them that proof of evolution is not disproof of God. You can also inform them that nowhere in the bible does it say man and woman would always remain the same as when God made Adam and Eve. If that were the case, how come we all look so VASTLY different? Evolution shouldn't shatter their faith. I think, when properly educated on the matter while receptive to the idea, it can strengthen their faith.
The real problem isn't the faith, it's the church's enforcement of it. The church, like any other institution, seeks power. And the more that is unknown, the more power they have. Faith isn't the enemy of science, but the Catholic church is damn close.
Aye, I hear you on the driving issue. Last school year my old high school had one lethal car accident every month of the year.
I think kids should be told that the device is there, but should be educated that it, like anything electronic, is prone to failure, and isn't implented everywhere. Show them an example of what can happen if it fails (not live, of course;)). Bring in someone who has lost digits/limbs to machinery...chances are the shop teacher, enjoying working with power tools and naturally gravitating towards others that do as well, knows at least one person who has had it happen. Do a type of live example by preparing a "finger" (skeleton digit from the science department crammed into a hot dog) to show how easily these things cut through bone when the safety measures fail.
In my school, however, the kids needed to be told to wear their safety goggles more than to not stick their fingers in the fast-moving blade of pain +3. But still there was the rare person who didn't think, and that was enough to make people pay attention for at least a week (sad, I know).
I agree on most all of your points, but one...the school issue.
If you're referring to High Schools, then yes, I think this should be mandatory. Most High School students take shop either because A) It can be an easy (albeit risky) A, B)it's required by the school, or C) It's something they enjoy doing or would like to learn about.
If A or B you probably don't have to worry about implementation on jobsites- they likely won't be pursuing that career path. If C, they either already use tablesaws, or will in the future. It doesn't hurt to have safety blades for training purposes. The two dinky wheels hanging off the side of my bike never gave me a false sense of security about riding the things, the co-pilot brake in the driver's ed car never gave me a false sense of security about driving, the nubbies on the end of my scissors for running with scissors, non-toxic sign on glue bottle for eating it (never did), and so on and so on.
Quite frankly, if after you learn on these safe blades, you don't think you need to be 100% attentive when working with a blade that spins at 30,000(?) RPMs and makes light work of lumber and steel alike...you just might deserve to lose a finger or two, at best it'll make you pay more attention, at worst it'll prevent you from doing that kind of work in the future.
On the other hand, many High Schools (like the one I went to...and it was even a redneck school) require parental waiver to allow their child to take shop doing anything more than pounding leather. I wanted to try my hand at it, but couldn't because my parents said "no damn way are you putting your hands in that machinery at 13 years old!"
If you're talking about a college environment, same thing really. No harm in learning on the safe stuff before using the stuff that carries grave consequences. It's done in every other field, after all.
Another important factor: That case was all over the media. To push on ahead would be bad taste, and the public would see it.
In this case, a minority of the people see it as it will never make media syndication (as all major news networks states-side are owned by media conglomerates who the RIAA work for). There is nothing to stop them.
*mutters something about that which flourishes in the dark and withers in the light...*
Indeed. The problem in this case isn't the game, it's the dreadful nature of family gatherings to the average 14 year old.
What is it about the human mind that enjoys those dreadful experiences once we grow up?
Apparently you haven't heard of the Personalized Homepage...I don't know why anyone would do that (on myspace either for that matter), but theoretically, one can.
Agreed. "I double dog dare you" says nothing of what the article is about. While the accepted title isn't too accurate, it at least lets you know what to expect: Vista, Security. "I Double dog dare you" isn't very RSS friendly, and less likely to garner as many clicks.
A rose by any other name probably wouldn't sound as sweet. Unless it was called sweetflower or something.
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Clarification of purpose: maybe the best way to stop it is to get rid of the job market for it. One way to do that might be to blacklist job postings for it from automatically showing up on say...an article talking about the evils of captcha "cracking"?
^Defending his title of pronoun abuser.
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This is likely because the last time SciFi ran a Firefly marathon (about 2 months ago, I believe), they started on the 5th episode from the beginning, and ran everything up to and including "Objects in Space." In other words, all 14 episodes can't fit between the hours of 8 and 6, so last time they showed the last 10, and this time they're showing the first 10.
As for the weekends, well that's their original movies/miniseries time. And as much as people might say about "Boa vs. Python" and its ilk, it's almost pure profit for them, and people DO watch. I was reading an interview with the writers of those flicks in Wired a few months back, and they said it perfectly: "Sometimes after a long work week, people just want mindless scifi." Plus, it's been well established that Friday 8-6 is their marathon time. Just be happy it's not The Hulk or Quantum Leap this time. Nothing wrong with those shows, they're just the usual Friday marathons.
I'm from (and still live in) the U.S. and do the same thing as you: itemizing large emails, etc. The replies often depend on who I'm e-mailing. If it's my boss, and it's between 9 and 5...I get a one line answer. If it's any time after 5 (No, my job never ends), I can usually expect a more lengthy response. My friend Chris, on the other hand, tends to reply in poetry.
Maybe it's more prevelant in the U.S...sure, you could argue it's a poor education system to blame, but you could also argue that U.S. companies are busier than UK companies, and hence can't respond as quickly or completely. I couldn't tell you either way, as I haven't worked at every company in the U.S. and the UK.
But despite what image our president portrays, not all of us are babbling idiots, just the voting majority...meaning the elderly, who tend to avoid those fancy Internets anyway.
if that's their target, they may want to consider lowering the price. No way I'd spend 2k for something a $300 PC could do (hell, I've gotten 5 PCs for free in the past week off craigslist alone...they're not the greatest, but they do 'net/email perfectly fine.)
yeah, I have nothing more to say. And I'm even mac-hostile.
You had me believing it could work like RHPS up until "SoaP was a hell of a lot of fun when the audience is yelling things like..." All the examples you gave reminded me more of would-be funny guys in high school that are more annoying than anything and less of some kind of "cult following" like RHPS has.
I have a mirror in front of my bed. If I'm laying down and I move, my cat will try to attack (play with) my reflection, but not me. If I do not move, the cat shows simply no interest in the mirror, or anything reflected by it, himself included. This tells me that he cannot discern the difference between mirror and reality (why else would he attack the reflection across the room, and not me right next to him making the same movements?), yet recognizes himself when looking at a mirror. Of course, if he doesn't know what a mirror is, that's gotta be pretty confusing for him...
Granted, I'm not much better. Every time I walk into a gym (which admittedly isn't often) and they have one of those full-wall mirrors, I'm fooled every time into the illogical conclusion that the room is gigantic.
well, that's the reason the US didn't join the Kyoto protocol, supposedly...
Silly Nastard, this is a conversation that draws in the OSS community on a site that already largely attracts the OSS crowd. The mere existence of DRM makes it a mess, round here.
There is no middle-ground, rights management is evil, and anything that uses it must be burned.
Yes, because we all know evolution doesn't take millions of years. That the changes happen over night.
That one day, the ancestor of a monkey gave birth to a bald baby, and his name was Adam.
That mammals give birth to cephalopods.
Sure, the easy answer is that the common ancestor millions of years ago (a very simple, sea-dwelling creature) made a small shift through adaptations over time, resulting in the evolution of dog and octopus millions of years of evolution later, but that can't be true! We all know a new species is just born one day, all parts intact.
Someone give this guy +Funny!
step 7) use "preview" because /. won't let me go back and add
tags to my "HTML Formatted" post.
Despite how it sounds, I don't mean it racist. First of all, we didn't evolve from monkeys, apes, baboons, or anything along those lines...we evolved from a species SIMILAR to them. Which is also similar to us. So people need to stop saying that. Now that that's out of the way, I have never met a Creation-believing Christian I haven't been able to "flip" on evolution using the following logic, in a very calm manner. It works especially well if the other party is pregnant or the spouse of a pregnant woman. 0) You cannot attack the Christian's beliefs. Doing so just makes them not believe anything you say as they enter Zealot, and possibly Martyr-mode. 1) Determine the subject's race. If you want, just ask them. 2) Ask them the races of their birth parents. If they are mix-race, chances are if the first answer was "Irish-German" you'll get a response similar to "My mom is Irish, my dad is German" 3) If expecting a child, ask what race(s) their child will be. They'll probably look at you funny because you should know the answer. 4) Ask if they resemble anyone in their families, if they get any traits from another member of the family, what diseases run in the family, etc. When they answer, tell them "congratulations, you now understand the basic of genetics." This is quite possibly the toughest part of the flip, because it's not evolution that gives the Christian (well the one willing to think) reason to pause, but genetics. That genes are passed down from generation to generation, and that over time these genes mutate (which is why you asked about diseases). Simply passing your genes on is evolution on the most miniscule of scales. 5) If they're anemic, or know someone who is, this is great! Inform them of the malaryia-ridden areas of the world, and how those living in those areas evolved anemia to survive. Make sure they know that they didn't decide "crap we better become anemic or we'll all die!" but that only those in the area who weren't affected by malaryia survived, and the majority of those people were anemic, hence its existence today. That that is evolution on a tiny tiny tiny scale, but a little bit larger than simply passing your genes. Here is where we see "survival of the fittest." Make sure they know that "fittest" means "most fit to survive in the area at the time" and not "strongest"- because in this case, the inhabitants of the area got weaker to become more fit for survival. 6) Usually at this point they will realize that they agreed with evolution all along, but their church prevented them from admitting it. The thought that "God didn't make us the way we are now" is probably the largest hurdle for them to jump, but once they can see the cracks that we really aren't the same as we were when the bible was written, the fissures begin to grow. Usually they come to understand. It doesn't hurt to tell them that proof of evolution is not disproof of God. You can also inform them that nowhere in the bible does it say man and woman would always remain the same as when God made Adam and Eve. If that were the case, how come we all look so VASTLY different? Evolution shouldn't shatter their faith. I think, when properly educated on the matter while receptive to the idea, it can strengthen their faith. The real problem isn't the faith, it's the church's enforcement of it. The church, like any other institution, seeks power. And the more that is unknown, the more power they have. Faith isn't the enemy of science, but the Catholic church is damn close.
Aye, I hear you on the driving issue. Last school year my old high school had one lethal car accident every month of the year.
;)). Bring in someone who has lost digits/limbs to machinery...chances are the shop teacher, enjoying working with power tools and naturally gravitating towards others that do as well, knows at least one person who has had it happen. Do a type of live example by preparing a "finger" (skeleton digit from the science department crammed into a hot dog) to show how easily these things cut through bone when the safety measures fail.
I think kids should be told that the device is there, but should be educated that it, like anything electronic, is prone to failure, and isn't implented everywhere. Show them an example of what can happen if it fails (not live, of course
In my school, however, the kids needed to be told to wear their safety goggles more than to not stick their fingers in the fast-moving blade of pain +3. But still there was the rare person who didn't think, and that was enough to make people pay attention for at least a week (sad, I know).
You forgot the Hanso Foundation's electromagnetic research facility.
I agree on most all of your points, but one...the school issue.
If you're referring to High Schools, then yes, I think this should be mandatory. Most High School students take shop either because A) It can be an easy (albeit risky) A, B)it's required by the school, or C) It's something they enjoy doing or would like to learn about.
If A or B you probably don't have to worry about implementation on jobsites- they likely won't be pursuing that career path. If C, they either already use tablesaws, or will in the future. It doesn't hurt to have safety blades for training purposes. The two dinky wheels hanging off the side of my bike never gave me a false sense of security about riding the things, the co-pilot brake in the driver's ed car never gave me a false sense of security about driving, the nubbies on the end of my scissors for running with scissors, non-toxic sign on glue bottle for eating it (never did), and so on and so on.
Quite frankly, if after you learn on these safe blades, you don't think you need to be 100% attentive when working with a blade that spins at 30,000(?) RPMs and makes light work of lumber and steel alike...you just might deserve to lose a finger or two, at best it'll make you pay more attention, at worst it'll prevent you from doing that kind of work in the future.
On the other hand, many High Schools (like the one I went to...and it was even a redneck school) require parental waiver to allow their child to take shop doing anything more than pounding leather. I wanted to try my hand at it, but couldn't because my parents said "no damn way are you putting your hands in that machinery at 13 years old!"
If you're talking about a college environment, same thing really. No harm in learning on the safe stuff before using the stuff that carries grave consequences. It's done in every other field, after all.
"begin to?"
Another important factor: That case was all over the media. To push on ahead would be bad taste, and the public would see it.
In this case, a minority of the people see it as it will never make media syndication (as all major news networks states-side are owned by media conglomerates who the RIAA work for). There is nothing to stop them.
*mutters something about that which flourishes in the dark and withers in the light...*
Indeed. The problem in this case isn't the game, it's the dreadful nature of family gatherings to the average 14 year old. What is it about the human mind that enjoys those dreadful experiences once we grow up?
And then hope you never get hit in the rear again.
Apparently you haven't heard of the Personalized Homepage...I don't know why anyone would do that (on myspace either for that matter), but theoretically, one can.
Agreed. "I double dog dare you" says nothing of what the article is about. While the accepted title isn't too accurate, it at least lets you know what to expect: Vista, Security. "I Double dog dare you" isn't very RSS friendly, and less likely to garner as many clicks.
A rose by any other name probably wouldn't sound as sweet. Unless it was called sweetflower or something.
And when you can't make a call because your battery is dead from listening to tunes on your Awesome All-In-One(TM) all day, what then?
Really? Someone better tell Microsoft this!
Oh wait...they already know. Hence their "world of applications that run on windows" ad campaign. You may have seen it before.