'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'
'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre -- that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
'When you were a young man we were all living in the treetops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other customers.
You and this guy. I think Orwell was trying to make a point about history being altered or lost when he wrote this part.
Punishment or bad outcomes are usually the result of using bad judgement
If you believe it, bad judgement produces experience
Experience leads to good judgement
Unless you're being punished randomly, you can make a connection between punishment and good judgement, at least in areas where bad judgement produces punishment over the short- or longer-term.
My electric razor was in fact responsible for delaying the takeoff of a plane once. Thankfully this was prior to 9/11.
Mine was similarly responsible, but ca. 2010-2011. I'm grateful that the local airport's baggage handlers had enough sense -- I think it was in the midwest, on a smaller airplane, if that matters -- that they just called me over to open my luggage, identify what it was and how to turn it off. Got me to be more careful, and to not bring it along on shorter trips.
In general, if you give a homeless guy $10, he'll spend it immediately. If you give a homeless guy $100, he'll call his friends and spend it immediately. If you give him $1000, he'll have it spent by the end of the week.
Now that it isn't there, I've had to rethink some pretty basic things, like why I get up in the morning, and why I bother to do my job, given that I can't get what I really want any more.
Futurama made this point as well. I'd think you have to reconsider:
whether its presence was always simply masking the absence of other motivations, and that the issue was always there, just hidden
how the presence or absence of involuntary physiologically-based wants/needs fundamentally advises your life choices, which you're already coming to grips with
if, in the absence of that want, you now have the freedom to choose your own motivations/wants based on other criteria -- e.g., longer-term goals, personal principles, developing different or deeper skillsets, or anything else.
Your statement made me wonder if there's a parallel to be drawn with people who experienced actual chronic hunger due to physiology, emotional state, or environment, and at some point had that hunger quenched.
Good luck, and I hope you figure something out that gets you and your motivations back in sync.
a desirable vehicle that is prone to theft as a result of its desirability or popularity.
Offtopic, but Lexus doesn't even figure in the top ten. I think the Honda Accord and Civic have topped that list for years -- earlier-model ones, for that matter.
Lanier seems to cavalierly disregard the potential for being locked up simply for expressing the truth in open discourse.
I wonder if he, in his wisdom, foresaw a time where government agents or Islamic assassins appear at one's door step simply for expressing an opinion.
I can't imagine someone with even a modicum of historical hindsight would dismiss this so easily.
His experience in this area seems to actually be the basis for his opinion:
But something he mentioned next really astonished me: "I’m sensitive to it because it murdered most of my parents' families in two different occasions and this idea that we're getting unified by people in these digital networks—"
"Murdered most of my parents' families." You heard that right. Lanierd's mother survived an Austrian concentration camp but many of her family died during the war—and many of his father's family were slaughtered in prewar Russian pogroms, which led the survivors to flee to the United States.
If the UK gets the U-233 bomb, next thing you know they will be threatening their rich, oil producing neighbor Norway. Norway will restart heavy water...
Blah blah blah... here's a version you can listen to instead. You can even sing along!
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He was almost unknown while he was alive, I'd never heard of him until I was an adult, and the only reason most people know about him is because Hollywood has been mining his mind-nuggets post-mortem for decades.
I'm sure the Slashdot crowd appreciates him, but I'd still say he's under-appreciated because he deserves to be up there with the likes of Asimov, Wells and Verne.
Ditto, almost verbatim.
Also, while I wasn't really thrilled about the story, I particularly appreciated the audiobook of "A Scanner Darkly" -- I really enjoyed Paul Giamatti's reading of it. That plus his performance in American Splendor made me sit up and take notice of him as an actor.
While we're exchanging acknowledgements, my heartfelt gratitude goes to the EU for their efforts in compelling the world to standardize on micro-USB for cell phone power and data.
I'm sure diversity in doing things instead of single mindedness is nearly always valuable.
Lera Boroditsky's research has come up with results that challenge some basic assumptions in linguistics. One such finding is that rather than language simply expressing thought processes, it shapes mental models of the world.
the army with the most stylish and fashionable uniform
Forget the Microsoft reality show. I want to see "Project Runway: Afghanistan", with a list of functional requirements and 24 hours to retool the uniform/body armor to get as close to them as possible.
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for these poor little guys.
Binary search is another example that comes to mind.
'I arst you civil enough, didn't I?' said the old man, straightening his shoulders pugnaciously. 'You telling me you ain't got a pint mug in the 'ole bleeding boozer?'
'And what in hell's name is a pint?' said the barman, leaning forward with the tips of his fingers on the counter.
'Ark at 'im! Calls 'isself a barman and don't know what a pint is! Why, a pint's the 'alf of a quart, and there's four quarts to the gallon. 'Ave to teach you the A, B, C next.'
'Never heard of 'em,' said the barman shortly. 'Litre and half litre -- that's all we serve. There's the glasses on the shelf in front of you.
'I likes a pint,' persisted the old man. 'You could 'a drawed me off a pint easy enough. We didn't 'ave these bleeding litres when I was a young man.'
'When you were a young man we were all living in the treetops,' said the barman, with a glance at the other customers.
You and this guy. I think Orwell was trying to make a point about history being altered or lost when he wrote this part.
Punishment is not the cause of good judgment.
But it can lead to it:
Unless you're being punished randomly, you can make a connection between punishment and good judgement, at least in areas where bad judgement produces punishment over the short- or longer-term.
My electric razor was in fact responsible for delaying the takeoff of a plane once. Thankfully this was prior to 9/11.
Mine was similarly responsible, but ca. 2010-2011. I'm grateful that the local airport's baggage handlers had enough sense -- I think it was in the midwest, on a smaller airplane, if that matters -- that they just called me over to open my luggage, identify what it was and how to turn it off. Got me to be more careful, and to not bring it along on shorter trips.
In general, if you give a homeless guy $10, he'll spend it immediately. If you give a homeless guy $100, he'll call his friends and spend it immediately. If you give him $1000, he'll have it spent by the end of the week.
So they're who should be getting stimulus money?
Now that it isn't there, I've had to rethink some pretty basic things, like why I get up in the morning, and why I bother to do my job, given that I can't get what I really want any more.
Futurama made this point as well. I'd think you have to reconsider:
Your statement made me wonder if there's a parallel to be drawn with people who experienced actual chronic hunger due to physiology, emotional state, or environment, and at some point had that hunger quenched.
Good luck, and I hope you figure something out that gets you and your motivations back in sync.
a desirable vehicle that is prone to theft as a result of its desirability or popularity.
Offtopic, but Lexus doesn't even figure in the top ten. I think the Honda Accord and Civic have topped that list for years -- earlier-model ones, for that matter.
Lanier seems to cavalierly disregard the potential for being locked up simply for expressing the truth in open discourse.
I wonder if he, in his wisdom, foresaw a time where government agents or Islamic assassins appear at one's door step simply for expressing an opinion. I can't imagine someone with even a modicum of historical hindsight would dismiss this so easily.
His experience in this area seems to actually be the basis for his opinion:
But something he mentioned next really astonished me: "I’m sensitive to it because it murdered most of my parents' families in two different occasions and this idea that we're getting unified by people in these digital networks—"
"Murdered most of my parents' families." You heard that right. Lanierd's mother survived an Austrian concentration camp but many of her family died during the war—and many of his father's family were slaughtered in prewar Russian pogroms, which led the survivors to flee to the United States.
If the UK gets the U-233 bomb, next thing you know they will be threatening their rich, oil producing neighbor Norway. Norway will restart heavy water ...
Blah blah blah ... here's a version you can listen to instead. You can even sing along!
If you are losing 5 for each unit and you ship 100,000,000, you lost $5,000,000. That is pretty significant.
Yes, but you can always make up for it in volume.
the penalties for bad driving will go up—drive drunk once, and you lose your license permanently, because why not—you can just use a self-driving car.
One example of when you take those penalties to their inevitable conclusion.
1997 came and went, everyone was running non-free Windows 95 on their 200MHz PentiumMMX beige boxes.
Except for the people loading Linux on those same boxes?
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like a bat out of hell
Forget wheeled vehicles, I want one of these!
He was almost unknown while he was alive, I'd never heard of him until I was an adult, and the only reason most people know about him is because Hollywood has been mining his mind-nuggets post-mortem for decades.
I'm sure the Slashdot crowd appreciates him, but I'd still say he's under-appreciated because he deserves to be up there with the likes of Asimov, Wells and Verne.
Ditto, almost verbatim.
Also, while I wasn't really thrilled about the story, I particularly appreciated the audiobook of "A Scanner Darkly" -- I really enjoyed Paul Giamatti's reading of it. That plus his performance in American Splendor made me sit up and take notice of him as an actor.
Actually, here in the UK it's been worked out that it would be cheaper to close all the libraries
Which is what this guy was complaining about.
I would never have gotten into video games if I could only afford one once a quarter.
Isn't that how all arcade games used to be priced?
Kudos to the people of the US for funding it!
While we're exchanging acknowledgements, my heartfelt gratitude goes to the EU for their efforts in compelling the world to standardize on micro-USB for cell phone power and data.
Offtopic, I know, but very much appreciated :-)
I'm sure diversity in doing things instead of single mindedness is nearly always valuable.
Lera Boroditsky's research has come up with results that challenge some basic assumptions in linguistics. One such finding is that rather than language simply expressing thought processes, it shapes mental models of the world.
It's hard to beat the model that already comes properly trained, and can also hide in plain sight, and comes with his own lockable cabinet, though.
the army with the most stylish and fashionable uniform
Forget the Microsoft reality show. I want to see "Project Runway: Afghanistan", with a list of functional requirements and 24 hours to retool the uniform/body armor to get as close to them as possible.
Interesting take on options for body armor in the future (this and the next ~10 strips), and how some things don't change.
Vivoleum is in the works, complete with commemorative candles.