I agree completely. They completely missed an opportunity to show us Anakin's descent into evil in a way that made you feel for him. Like feel... Anything. Betrayed, happy, angry, *something* would have been good. There simply wasn't enough conflict. No sense of inner turmoil. Just - "Oh, I'm evil now. Guess I'll go do some bad stuff right? Maybe after I have lunch..."
I *looove* when ACs respond who very obviously didn't read my post. I very clearly laid out how hurricanes respond to temperature increases and get told to prove that they don't.
Even climate scientists will tell you that there is no way to prove this is a result of AGW - nor is it even agreed upon as a potential result of AGW (increased warming increases wind shear which may actually *decrease* the number of hurricanes - but those which do happen may be stronger - it's unsettled).
The point of this in relation to the topic is that had this girl sat down and really tried to analyse the situation objectively, she probably wouldn't have ended up committing suicide.
That doesn't work for everybody. Especially those with low self-esteem and/or depression. For some people ignoring things like this simply isn't an option. Somebody suffering from low self-esteem and/or depression doesn't hear good things - only bad. And those bad things resonate within their minds. All of it serves as a positive feedback loop for her own feelings of self-doubt. She can't stand up to people like this because she thinks they're right. She believes she is shit and that you're just lying to her when you tell her good things.
And you might blame her for not being strong enough. But if somebody has a broken leg would you criticize them for not being able to walk?
I agree - that's a great first step. Reassuring her that she's loved. But if she's suffering from a mental disorder (such as depression) it won't likely be enough. Heck - even without depression that wouldn't be enough for most teenagers.
It used to be that once you got away from the schoolyard you left the bullies behind to some extent. At least you could enjoy yourself with your family and hobbies. But being tormented on facebook, youtube, etc. allows tormentors to reach into your private world as well away from school.
I feel for the girl. She was truly suffering alone.
What makes you think your daughter will, in her teens, rationally consider your words and think "yes, he's right?" It sounds like this girl was suffering from massive depression. If you think you could work against something like that by "just being nice" you're sadly mistaken. I'm not calling your parenting into question - just stating that there are things that are very much out of your control.
No - your point was, shall we say, "too cleverly phrased" for me.
Your new point is clear but wrong. Humans aren't rational creatures. We're emotional creatures as well as rational. You should interact with more of them.
Sometimes on/. I feel like I'm explaining our species to an alien. This is one of those times. Are most nerds *actually* that as far removed from society as the media has portrayed us?
It's only anecdotal - but I had some experience with this. Home-built RAID5 and got shipped 5 drives all with near sequential serial nos. 3 of the 5 died within a couple years...
It's human nature. His name taints his work now. Most people don't want to look at shit while they're eating nor do they want to think of some asshole who killed his wife when formatting a file system.
As far as I can tell btrfs has what features would be worth taking and then some - and is under more active development. I think reiserfs is dead long-term.
I ran reiser3 for a long time. I was happy with it. But these days I'm on ext4 (and eyeing btrfs). Wonderful thing about btrfs and the ext* FS's is that they provided a migration plan. Reiser4 (at least last I checked) could not convert an existing FS (even reiser3). btrfs can even convert ext4 and allow you *TO GO BACK* if you want. How awesome is that?
It already does though. I don't need to memorize *everything* - now I only need to know how to find the answers I need. This allows me to work with a much smaller set of data and fetch that which I need from the cloud as needed.
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I agree completely. They completely missed an opportunity to show us Anakin's descent into evil in a way that made you feel for him. Like feel... Anything. Betrayed, happy, angry, *something* would have been good. There simply wasn't enough conflict. No sense of inner turmoil. Just - "Oh, I'm evil now. Guess I'll go do some bad stuff right? Maybe after I have lunch..."
Princess Leia and the 7 ewoks!
Oh snap!
I *looove* when ACs respond who very obviously didn't read my post. I very clearly laid out how hurricanes respond to temperature increases and get told to prove that they don't.
Even climate scientists will tell you that there is no way to prove this is a result of AGW - nor is it even agreed upon as a potential result of AGW (increased warming increases wind shear which may actually *decrease* the number of hurricanes - but those which do happen may be stronger - it's unsettled).
The point of this in relation to the topic is that had this girl sat down and really tried to analyse the situation objectively, she probably wouldn't have ended up committing suicide.
I believe you when you say you have aspergers....
That doesn't work for everybody. Especially those with low self-esteem and/or depression. For some people ignoring things like this simply isn't an option. Somebody suffering from low self-esteem and/or depression doesn't hear good things - only bad. And those bad things resonate within their minds. All of it serves as a positive feedback loop for her own feelings of self-doubt. She can't stand up to people like this because she thinks they're right. She believes she is shit and that you're just lying to her when you tell her good things.
And you might blame her for not being strong enough. But if somebody has a broken leg would you criticize them for not being able to walk?
I agree - that's a great first step. Reassuring her that she's loved. But if she's suffering from a mental disorder (such as depression) it won't likely be enough. Heck - even without depression that wouldn't be enough for most teenagers.
It used to be that once you got away from the schoolyard you left the bullies behind to some extent. At least you could enjoy yourself with your family and hobbies. But being tormented on facebook, youtube, etc. allows tormentors to reach into your private world as well away from school.
I feel for the girl. She was truly suffering alone.
What makes you think your daughter will, in her teens, rationally consider your words and think "yes, he's right?" It sounds like this girl was suffering from massive depression. If you think you could work against something like that by "just being nice" you're sadly mistaken. I'm not calling your parenting into question - just stating that there are things that are very much out of your control.
The keyboard on this one glows!
Microsoft - finding new ways to charge you for Office since 1990!
Milk that cash cow MS...
No - your point was, shall we say, "too cleverly phrased" for me.
Your new point is clear but wrong. Humans aren't rational creatures. We're emotional creatures as well as rational. You should interact with more of them.
Sometimes on /. I feel like I'm explaining our species to an alien. This is one of those times. Are most nerds *actually* that as far removed from society as the media has portrayed us?
Dude, put down the pipe...
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It's only anecdotal - but I had some experience with this. Home-built RAID5 and got shipped 5 drives all with near sequential serial nos. 3 of the 5 died within a couple years...
Hah! Didn't even realize that. "FFS" wouldn't be a bad name. :-)
It's human nature. His name taints his work now. Most people don't want to look at shit while they're eating nor do they want to think of some asshole who killed his wife when formatting a file system.
As far as I can tell btrfs has what features would be worth taking and then some - and is under more active development. I think reiserfs is dead long-term.
I ran reiser3 for a long time. I was happy with it. But these days I'm on ext4 (and eyeing btrfs). Wonderful thing about btrfs and the ext* FS's is that they provided a migration plan. Reiser4 (at least last I checked) could not convert an existing FS (even reiser3). btrfs can even convert ext4 and allow you *TO GO BACK* if you want. How awesome is that?
It would need a lot more configurable flags and useless values to tweak for us Gentoo folks to take it up. :-)
THIS. At least rename the project FFS. Nobody would want " Ted Kaczynski FS" on their computer.
Call it "rfs" or something if you want to keep some tie with the original.
I think most reasonable people would see that using a product to get people in the door to make money from something else is "commercial use."
It warms my heart when "religion" is used as a pejorative...
Books were the first cloud.
It already does though. I don't need to memorize *everything* - now I only need to know how to find the answers I need. This allows me to work with a much smaller set of data and fetch that which I need from the cloud as needed.
We don't need it built in though.
Holy hell I wish I'd read your comment before his blog. Newton was wrong, Einstein was a tool, nobody knows how the universe works but me...
Here's a thought - if you have to tell people you're not a crank, well, you probably are.
Seems like it would be VTOL. But helicopters already fill that area nicely.