is that pot use is higher amongst people of lower or higher IQ. The best programmers I've ever worked with were heavy potheads. OTOH, pot use is high with stupid lowlifes I've known. Non-pot use is heaviest in people in the average IQ range (i.e. 100 +- 15)
My own experience (which really proves nothing statistically) is: I've smoked weed since I was 15 (I am now 57). I outscored everyone in my school on the Ohio Psych by at least 40 points. Maybe I'd be a super-genius if i'd never used but I doubt it.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the bubble chamber. The popular story is that Glaser was watching bubbles in a glass of beer but he explained that the connection really was that he used beer for early prototypes.
In favor of Tsarism. Great principled stand there guys.
Nazism
Hitler was a liberal? Yeah, he did confiscate guns, but nothing characterizes Nazism better than extreme nationalism, a conservative trait.
eugenics
Eugenics was supported by both sides. Progressives who thought they could make humanity better, and conservatives who wanted to use genetics to enforce the class structure. Notice how it was always the lower classes who got sterilized.
And also notice that whether it's liberals or conservatives in power, the direction is always towards more control: Gun control and laws enforcing political correctness from the liberals; Banning of gay marriage and abortions and loyalty oaths from the conservatives. It never goes the other way in the U.S. even though most Americans say they want government out of their lives; the media can always stir them to a killing rage by pointing out what the other side does.
[...] As it turns out, part of the problem is us.
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Speak for yourself, White Man.
Yeah, obese people are everywhere in the US today, mostly due to the plastic shite the corporations provide for them to eat. I haven't owned a motor vehicle since 1991 and, guess what? I'm slim & trim from walking and biking.
That's just skirting around the problem, though. In the last couple of decades I've observed a steady trend towards A) larger gas-guzzling vehicles and B) single person occupancy. Americans hold it to be their right (and it is) to drive alone 5 blocks to the supermarket in their huge goddam vehicles. However, if they simply understood the implications of their actions on the environment I feel we'd see far less of it. But instead, the TeeVee has them pissing their britches watching out for murderers, rapists and now terrorists so they will never, ever EVER stop to give someone a ride, even on the hottest or coldest days of the year. On the flip-side, one would be far more inclined to walk to their destination if there were a good chance they'd be offered a ride, as was the case a mere 30 years ago (I remember).
One more thing: I detest BP (and other mega corps) as much as anyone, but blaming them for the destruction of aquatic and wetland habitats and countless rare and valuable species is logically and morally equivalent to blaming Mexico for the US drug problem. The market will work, bringing the supply to where there is the demand, no matter how much imbecile legislation is passed. The problem is the ignorance of the average US citizen. Find some way to fix that and a lot of huge problems simply disappear. I was hopeful that the switch to digital TV would so frustrate a large number of viewers that they would simply give up the tube. That would have had a chance to break the increasingly sophisticated mind control the mega corps have over a vast majority of the US population. Alas, I was wrong and now I and to some degree every inhabitant of this planet are paying the price.
Why is employment optional in a society which offers people no alternative means by which to sustain themselves?
We're all raised to be a part of this machine, and one cannot simply find some nice, fertile spot of land to raise crops and lovestock these days.
"Lovestock"? I guess biotech is farther along than I realized.
No one is making anyone buy an iPhone. No one is making anyone develop for an iPhone.
This isn't the 90's and Apple isn't MS. They don't have to open up their hardware or software to anyone else, and no court is going to make them. You want to compete so bad? Go make your own phone or pad.
... and get sued for patent infringement? Having your app rejected is one thing - being litigated into bankruptcy after investing in a major hardware project is quite another.
[...]
What we really need for change is showing the evils of the police department, sort of an anti-COPS show, showing abuses in the police system to innocent people.
Next to free for me. I just paid for a yearly account on the Well and a small monthly amount (I don't recall exactly how much, but it was pretty cheap) for PC Pursuit.
"Freedom from censorship" is "freedom of expression". "Freedom from discrimination" is "equal rights under the law". "Freedom from murder" - well, again, since you presumably have a right to life and liberty, yes, murdering you abridges that right. But it's not a "freedom from".
Rights are better stated in the affirmative. If you talk about all the things you should be protected against (since that's somewhat limitless), it's difficult to enumerate all of them. Stating an affirmative right ("freedom of expression" or "freedom of religion") makes it clear that there are few, if any exceptions, unless it tramples on someone else's affirmatively stated rights.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
If you have more than one window open in a single app, There's no easy way to switch between them.
[...]
Cmd-~ cycles through all windows in a single app.
Other than that, I agree with you.
[...]
My experieince with MacOSX in general is that if you do things the way Steve Jobs thinks you should be doing things, everything works fine. But if you stray from that path, everything becomes unnecessarily difficult. The Apple slogan shouldn't be "think different" it should be "think like steve jobs".
[...]
That's why I refused to buy a mac until they gave me a CLI. You can get around all the stupid stuff with bash.
Collecting the oil appears to be necessary. If you set up a collection rig, you only need to stifle the pressure from the oil you don't collect. If you try to block it entirely, you need to block *all* the pressure. The latest attempt to cap the well failed due to pressure and buoyancy created by the well and its byproducts, even though it allowed some of the oil through for collection. Do you think an identical cap that tried to block it completely would be more successful? I'm not a fan of BP, but I don't think they're trying less plausible solutions solely to save themselves the cost of drilling a new well. Given the payouts the U.S. will likely extract to cover damages (legislation to raise the cap is already in progress, and their public promise to make good is hard to renege on), they're better off capping as fast as possible and drilling anew.
The U.S is owned by Britain, you forgot. The U.K. government will not let the colonies expose their flagship corporation to ruinous lawsuits. You also forgot greed. +3 Insightful? More like -3 Astoundingly Naive.
11 tons is not going to do much to a wellhead other than pry enlarge it. Two things a nuke has going for it are size and temperature, neither one of which is extent in known conventional explosives. Which is not to say the government does not have stuff out there that could do this, but they would pry rather use a nuke itself than the magic crap they use to detonate it.
"extant" not "extent". Extent means degree of extension. Extant means existing. So much for PhDs.
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I don't have enough time to screw with it, but I'll try the linux build. Thx
if i want to find pirates, i would get a regular isp-account, fire up my bittorent client, like any normal pirate, and then collect ips. I do not see, how peerblock could help you there, because i do not differ in behaviour from other pirates.
But international boffins analysing the RHIC gold-buster results have now discovered a an anti-deuterium nucleus containing an antiproton, an antineutron - and, gobsmackingly - an "anti-strange" quark.
The quark is not in addition to the antiproton & antineutron - it replaces an up or down quark in the antiproton or antineutron.
A Faraday Box would make this a non-issue. The problem is what else do you use that you'd be blocking? You would lose cell service inside your home. For Radio and TV (if you even care about antiquated communication, but then there's HD) you may be able to wire antennas to the exterior, but you'd have to check with the complex's association bi-laws --which likely to enforce a "clean" look.
Wow, fringe benefits! Wouldn't the space between the wires need to be about 1 wavelength? For 1900GHz that would be about 1.7 mm. Is that feasible, or can you get by with more than 1 wavelength spacing?
In the UK we have the NHS. Lots of people moan about it. It's not perfect. But if you're ill, for the most part, people are thankful that it is there.
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
The US is the home of free speech and a bastion of many personal freedoms, but it is also a place where survival of the fittest takes priority. If you're doing well for youself, then great. Not everyone is.
Take a step back and start thinking about what other people need for a change. Having a government mandated healthcare system to cater for the bottom fifth of society (which private healthcare would otherwise ignore) ain't so bad an idea.
I don't give a shit what kind of ridiculous numbers they run on you over there. Between this government's "education" system and their "justice" system, they've pretty much fucked up my life. And now I should just sit down and shut up when they try to make me buy "health care" that I don't need or be fined and face jail time? Go jerk off someone else.
You are right, how could I forget. I really love Smalltalk the language, but I'm less keen on the whole "modify the image" thing. I'm sure it would have been a lot more successful if it were file-based.
I like smalltalk, too, which is why I really like objective-c. Trouble is, Apple is such a bunch of Nazis that I don't want to develop for them. Hopefully, GnuStep will be as usable as Cocoa is sometime soon.
They invented the mouse but failed to patent it, missing out on billions. Now they come out with some bs patent of prior art. That's what happens when you let bean-counters run the company.
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is that pot use is higher amongst people of lower or higher IQ. The best programmers I've ever worked with were heavy potheads. OTOH, pot use is high with stupid lowlifes I've known. Non-pot use is heaviest in people in the average IQ range (i.e. 100 +- 15)
My own experience (which really proves nothing statistically) is: I've smoked weed since I was 15 (I am now 57). I outscored everyone in my school on the Ohio Psych by at least 40 points. Maybe I'd be a super-genius if i'd never used but I doubt it.
I'm surprised the article didn't mention the bubble chamber. The popular story is that Glaser was watching bubbles in a glass of beer but he explained that the connection really was that he used beer for early prototypes.
Nice try. I've patented the act of being fucked by legislation. And since I'm first to file, you're kind of fucked. If I give you permission, that is.
Now that's Funny!
Conservatives opposed communism
In favor of Tsarism. Great principled stand there guys.
Nazism
Hitler was a liberal? Yeah, he did confiscate guns, but nothing characterizes Nazism better than extreme nationalism, a conservative trait.
eugenics
Eugenics was supported by both sides. Progressives who thought they could make humanity better, and conservatives who wanted to use genetics to enforce the class structure. Notice how it was always the lower classes who got sterilized.
And also notice that whether it's liberals or conservatives in power, the direction is always towards more control : Gun control and laws enforcing political correctness from the liberals; Banning of gay marriage and abortions and loyalty oaths from the conservatives. It never goes the other way in the U.S. even though most Americans say they want government out of their lives; the media can always stir them to a killing rage by pointing out what the other side does.
[...]
As it turns out, part of the problem is us.
[...]
Speak for yourself, White Man.
Yeah, obese people are everywhere in the US today, mostly due to the plastic shite the corporations provide for them to eat. I haven't owned a motor vehicle since 1991 and, guess what? I'm slim & trim from walking and biking.
That's just skirting around the problem, though. In the last couple of decades I've observed a steady trend towards A) larger gas-guzzling vehicles and B) single person occupancy. Americans hold it to be their right (and it is) to drive alone 5 blocks to the supermarket in their huge goddam vehicles. However, if they simply understood the implications of their actions on the environment I feel we'd see far less of it. But instead, the TeeVee has them pissing their britches watching out for murderers, rapists and now terrorists so they will never, ever EVER stop to give someone a ride, even on the hottest or coldest days of the year. On the flip-side, one would be far more inclined to walk to their destination if there were a good chance they'd be offered a ride, as was the case a mere 30 years ago (I remember).
One more thing: I detest BP (and other mega corps) as much as anyone, but blaming them for the destruction of aquatic and wetland habitats and countless rare and valuable species is logically and morally equivalent to blaming Mexico for the US drug problem. The market will work, bringing the supply to where there is the demand, no matter how much imbecile legislation is passed. The problem is the ignorance of the average US citizen. Find some way to fix that and a lot of huge problems simply disappear. I was hopeful that the switch to digital TV would so frustrate a large number of viewers that they would simply give up the tube. That would have had a chance to break the increasingly sophisticated mind control the mega corps have over a vast majority of the US population. Alas, I was wrong and now I and to some degree every inhabitant of this planet are paying the price.
The perfect tattoo: in a single 72-point font, the last digit of Pi.
The last 2 digits are 42.
No they aren't. Going from right to left, the last digits are 13.
In that case, definitely the most beautiful and famous theorem you can come up with is Euler's identity. e^(i*Pi) = -1.
I just had that idea for a T-shirt: White on black, with the words "Get used to it." underneath.
Why is employment optional in a society which offers people no alternative means by which to sustain themselves? We're all raised to be a part of this machine, and one cannot simply find some nice, fertile spot of land to raise crops and lovestock these days.
"Lovestock"? I guess biotech is farther along than I realized.
After all the work I did on my "download random porn & cartoons via bittorrent & put it on your desktop" widget!
No one is making anyone buy an iPhone. No one is making anyone develop for an iPhone.
This isn't the 90's and Apple isn't MS. They don't have to open up their hardware or software to anyone else, and no court is going to make them. You want to compete so bad? Go make your own phone or pad.
... and get sued for patent infringement? Having your app rejected is one thing - being litigated into bankruptcy after investing in a major hardware project is quite another.
[...]
What we really need for change is showing the evils of the police department, sort of an anti-COPS show, showing abuses in the police system to innocent people.
It's called YouTube.
ROTFL
I could do that, too on something known as "vpnet" in Chicago ca. 1991. It was only certain newsgroups, though.
Next to free for me. I just paid for a yearly account on the Well and a small monthly amount (I don't recall exactly how much, but it was pretty cheap) for PC Pursuit.
"Freedom from censorship" is "freedom of expression". "Freedom from discrimination" is "equal rights under the law". "Freedom from murder" - well, again, since you presumably have a right to life and liberty, yes, murdering you abridges that right. But it's not a "freedom from".
Rights are better stated in the affirmative. If you talk about all the things you should be protected against (since that's somewhat limitless), it's difficult to enumerate all of them. Stating an affirmative right ("freedom of expression" or "freedom of religion") makes it clear that there are few, if any exceptions, unless it tramples on someone else's affirmatively stated rights.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.
[...]
If you have more than one window open in a single app, There's no easy way to switch between them.
[...]
Cmd-~ cycles through all windows in a single app. Other than that, I agree with you.
[...]
My experieince with MacOSX in general is that if you do things the way Steve Jobs thinks you should be doing things, everything works fine. But if you stray from that path, everything becomes unnecessarily difficult. The Apple slogan shouldn't be "think different" it should be "think like steve jobs".
[...]
That's why I refused to buy a mac until they gave me a CLI. You can get around all the stupid stuff with bash.
Collecting the oil appears to be necessary. If you set up a collection rig, you only need to stifle the pressure from the oil you don't collect. If you try to block it entirely, you need to block *all* the pressure. The latest attempt to cap the well failed due to pressure and buoyancy created by the well and its byproducts, even though it allowed some of the oil through for collection. Do you think an identical cap that tried to block it completely would be more successful? I'm not a fan of BP, but I don't think they're trying less plausible solutions solely to save themselves the cost of drilling a new well. Given the payouts the U.S. will likely extract to cover damages (legislation to raise the cap is already in progress, and their public promise to make good is hard to renege on), they're better off capping as fast as possible and drilling anew.
The U.S is owned by Britain, you forgot. The U.K. government will not let the colonies expose their flagship corporation to ruinous lawsuits. You also forgot greed. +3 Insightful? More like -3 Astoundingly Naive.
11 tons is not going to do much to a wellhead other than pry enlarge it. Two things a nuke has going for it are size and temperature, neither one of which is extent in known conventional explosives. Which is not to say the government does not have stuff out there that could do this, but they would pry rather use a nuke itself than the magic crap they use to detonate it.
"extant" not "extent". Extent means degree of extension. Extant means existing. So much for PhDs.
I don't have enough time to screw with it, but I'll try the linux build. Thx
if i want to find pirates, i would get a regular isp-account, fire up my bittorent client, like any normal pirate, and then collect ips. I do not see, how peerblock could help you there, because i do not differ in behaviour from other pirates.
mod parent +1 Obvious
But international boffins analysing the RHIC gold-buster results have now discovered a an anti-deuterium nucleus containing an antiproton, an antineutron - and, gobsmackingly - an "anti-strange" quark.
The quark is not in addition to the antiproton & antineutron - it replaces an up or down quark in the antiproton or antineutron.
A Faraday Box would make this a non-issue. The problem is what else do you use that you'd be blocking? You would lose cell service inside your home. For Radio and TV (if you even care about antiquated communication, but then there's HD) you may be able to wire antennas to the exterior, but you'd have to check with the complex's association bi-laws --which likely to enforce a "clean" look.
Wow, fringe benefits! Wouldn't the space between the wires need to be about 1 wavelength? For 1900GHz that would be about 1.7 mm. Is that feasible, or can you get by with more than 1 wavelength spacing?
In the UK we have the NHS. Lots of people moan about it. It's not perfect. But if you're ill, for the most part, people are thankful that it is there.
In the US the poor 20% of the population have nothing.
The US is the home of free speech and a bastion of many personal freedoms, but it is also a place where survival of the fittest takes priority. If you're doing well for youself, then great. Not everyone is.
Take a step back and start thinking about what other people need for a change. Having a government mandated healthcare system to cater for the bottom fifth of society (which private healthcare would otherwise ignore) ain't so bad an idea.
I don't give a shit what kind of ridiculous numbers they run on you over there. Between this government's "education" system and their "justice" system, they've pretty much fucked up my life. And now I should just sit down and shut up when they try to make me buy "health care" that I don't need or be fined and face jail time? Go jerk off someone else.
You are right, how could I forget. I really love Smalltalk the language, but I'm less keen on the whole "modify the image" thing. I'm sure it would have been a lot more successful if it were file-based.
I like smalltalk, too, which is why I really like objective-c. Trouble is, Apple is such a bunch of Nazis that I don't want to develop for them. Hopefully, GnuStep will be as usable as Cocoa is sometime soon.
They invented the mouse but failed to patent it, missing out on billions. Now they come out with some bs patent of prior art. That's what happens when you let bean-counters run the company.