I know it's an April Fools prank, but the lady down the street thinks this has already happened to the World Trade Center!
She has been posting flyers for about 2 years now.
She also thinks my dog (black lab) is a member of the CIA in disguise keeping an eye on her.
Oh man, I am laughing so hard just thinking about it again.
Addiction is all in levels, and often people will find addictions in things they don't like. I eat in front of the computer at work all the time, I miss sleep for class stuff or to catch up with friends. They don't talk about being addicted to either of those things unless I am missing sleep or eating in front of the computer. I constantly neglect my "basic needs" to do things I enjoy, because I work 12 hours a day I don't have the time to do things I enjoy like read the news online or play WoW.
I think they need to take into account the things going on around a person for OCD like behaviors. A person may be spending too much time online, or gambling, or watching TV because they are depressed or disappointed with their life and it's the easiest way to do it. OCD is they can't control it, while a choice maybe they feel trapped and online is their escape or enjoyment in a tough or stressful position.
If a person hates their spouse they can see the choices of A) divorce, lose half their stuff and 30% of their income B) Go out, be physically not present and look for another spouse, maybe get caught and divorce C) do something else that distracts you and makes you happy enough to stand it. Then if some one says you are spending too much time and have to stop, you can blame it on an addiction and be blameless for your actions (and not confront the original problem).
After working in a lot of start ups and small businesses I was used to being on the rush and working smart I was hired at a large business. There I can do a months worth of work in about a day, and I'm the best in the position they ever had (the last person was so stressed by the position she would cry in the bathroom). If I break the norm and ask for more work, I end up getting assigned the work another sociopath should be working on but complained more about having too much work. So I just work on my master's projects and read ebooks to learn about new stuff. I would say it's slacking, but I'd rather do what gains me benefits then do some other persons work so they can do the same.
I don't doubt people are working on personal things at work, like me above. However since a lot of businesses are only open during times people are at work or kids go nuts, it's necessary to do. This keeps people at work and productive (since they don't have to take the day off to deal with these things) so what's the problem? Then, if ones boss does not challenge the workers, what can you do either?
I have been it places where you have to work 100% of the time when you're there, and it's filled with people taking off constantly to take care of little things in their personal lives and terrible moral.
Looking at this I see less of a problem with a largely non fissionable concentration of radioactive materials, and accidents do happen. However, when you get a private contractor that wants to do this as cheaply as possible combined with a secretive government entity you have pretty much a carte blanch to hire people who don't know what they are doing, screw it up, and get off without responsibility for poisoning people.
If you want to debate about how companies can't get away with this I can send over a picture of a tailings pile the size of a large apartment block sitting outside of Colorado Springs filled with Arsenic. It has been there for about 30 years without any cleanup by anyone, and the mining company that mined for gold there (a bit different I know then radioactive materials, but similar concept) has had no responsibility to clean it up. So it just sits there leaching Arsenic into the ground water and rivers each time it rains.
I learned it in my business classes, but it's not usually related to salary but for marketing and consumer negotiations. The correct term is anchoring, and usually it's related to the fact that most people when they set a value they will not go more then 10% in either directions in negotiating. Also, 10% is usually considered the least amount of change required to make some one switch from one vendor to another. It's less for higher priced items and stores that are closer togethor, but 10% difference is usually a garunteed steal from a competator.
I think one thing wasn't mentioned in here that really should be, believable AI's. I am a great fan of sneaky games. and games where you can out manuver an enemy without standing there and seeing whos armor lasts the longest. Something like Prey, where you can't sneak period and they always see you through walls or jump out or portals so they always get the first shot. Also I like to be confronted with enemies that don't move in predictable patterns. Some of the WW2 games you sit there at a machine gun nest as swarms of enemies come from one direction as you mow them down, or enemies confronted with a heavily armed adversary run through open group like a sheep. On the other side enemies should not see you, train on you instead of your teammates that are firing on them, and head shot you in 2-3 seconds like brothers in arms.
Schools can definately do things to kids for whats done outside. I know in any of mine any sort of violent infraction (assault, threatening, etc...) kids were expelled without discussion, property crimes (B & E, graffiti, etc) they were suspended for a week, and repeated harrasment the harrasser was sent to anther class (if there was only one class and they needed it they were sent to the remedial class).
I think it's more of a harrasment type thing. If some one calls you something who cares, but if they put up a website devoted to your fat butt covered with derogatory terms or repeatidly harrass in any medium then the laws should be strengthed. My sister in law had a online harrasser and we had to go to the kids parents to threaten him that if he continued we would get a restraining order and call the cops to bother them everytime the kid posted another comment (imagion the school trying to accomidate a restraining order between 2 students.....). The school would do nothing itself, even though most of it came from school equipment to a school email/BB or verbal/physical things on school property.
I consider school more of a work type arrangment, and if they want to continue coming they need to abide by the rules of conduct. Kids may not be 18, but they are there to learn and are intelligent enough to know it's not the right behavior. If parents won't step up to the plate to show kids the correct behavior, schools are usually the next held responsable so they should have the power and the responsability.
My 2 cents, crazy or not.
I believe in dinsaurs and the age of the earth to be billions of years, and not a bunch of fossils planted by god in a 6,000 year old earth. I think that if I got to be a higher being able to watch life I create unfold, I would want to create a start and see what happens. Then to see what diversity comes out of compition/disasters and celibrate it. We can look at these creatures with wonder and say "Wow, things like this actually existed? That is so awsome, I wonder what it would have been like", instead of the imagionation crushing "think as we do" vocal religous minority. Also, I don't think the writers of the bible could really understand any number as high as billions or even millions. Better to be vauge, and not have some one think you're a loony.
I think people screaming at each other about how old the earth is are missing the point. The central tennent is kindness and generosity, which seem to have been lost in the "I"M RIGHT and YOU'RE NOT". Let people think and do what they want if it doesn't hurt anyone else, I think people are more creative and happier that way. I say let me deal with my own soul and beliefs, and everyone else deal with thiers any way that doesn't harm anyone else.
No, I am not christian but I do believe there is a higher power out there. Whether I'm right or wrong in where I go to, or when I pray, or if I follow kosher or no alchohol, I feel my actions are what matters. If it's your beliefs and not actions that matter, then there is something wrong.
see them talk about is sending current through this device and being able to cool it down to -200 C without any bulky heat exchangers. If it does that I would stick a few in my car, a few -200 C would be fine to run the AC without any refrigerants.
Heat into electricity isn't far fetched, but hard to do economically at smaller scales.
I think it's bogus till I have some one independently show it works. There have been a lot of huge claims and nothing to back it up with recently. It's not to say it's not a good idea or it will never work, I'm just in the camp of I would like to see it to believe it.
For anyone who ahs trouble driving around metropolitan areas this would be awsome! You can take a look at the buildings if you were driving around. So I could see what I should expect to see when I'm driving up to said building, instead of trying to infer what the place looks like from the roof. I wonder if you can move the camera to capture city vistas without actually having to trek out there.
Knowing about the history of persia my be useful (Yeah right)
The way I see it is time versus benefit. Learning requires work, creativity and the exapnsion of your knowledge. Alot of profs seem to think that means loading some one up till the crack, and then load them up some more. I'm not endorsing cheating, but say you studied well and learned the materials well enough but the prof you are required to learn even thing to the point where you could recite everything the chapters, what the professor said verbatium, and take all the equations and derive them into everything else they can be without teaching it.
I have had profs that ask you for a 10 page term paper twice a week for 13 weeks summerizing a companys annual report refrencing all the news about them in the last 2 years, profs test on page numbers sentaces show up on, devote entire sections of tests to things they have said in passing, give dozens of questions a week to figure out, and any additional projects/analysis/etc.
In a push for excillence more profs load their students up on work more instead of actually intellectually stimulate them, and cheating seems to be the only way to win at that sort of crap.
Frankly I'm surprised it's so low with more and more students needing to work, or having family issues, at the same time.
I would cheat I can know the subject and get a C or know the subject and cheat to be able to do the work and then get an A. Since students are judged more on their grades and not what they know, I'd rather just spend some time looking some obscure thing I need up rather then be able to do everything from memory.
Of course cheating happens. You have professors who seem to think their class is the only thing you'll be doing 24 hours a day for the rest of the semester. Take 5 classes like that in undergrad, or 3 in grad, and the only way to keep your head above water or sleep is to cheat (or invent a time machine). the worst in my experiance is I had one class where it was a choice to cheat, drop the class, don't sleep, or drop every other class and quit work. Since it was a required class for the major, you can see what pretty much every student in the class did (you could tell the few who didn't because they had breakdowns during class and the tests).
Not to defend any actions, but B school is more important to find the answer then know it. Plus most of the things you do are group projects with one answer/source. One person spends a bunch of time to find each answer, change the wording, share, everyone only spends 5 hours on each answer and everyone doesn't spend 50 on the test.
-Anon Student
I think this was a bit excessive, but if they are destroying things it wasn't that bad. If they were just climbing around the cops should have just told them to go home and that would be the end to that. I doubt they were doing much damage, I doubt enough to warrant keeping them on file for 5 years. The DNA recording was creepy, I think if you aren't charged you should not be put into the system like that.
While I don't hate cops, I have a few friends who are, there are some that really scare me and make it so I don't trust them in general. I had a friend who was stopped at an intersection with a cop staking it out and waiting for some one to run it. All of a sudden the cop points a shotgun at him, so he takes off like a bat out of hell. He eludes him, but later they come to his house and arrest him. The judge asks the cop what the heck he was thinking pointing a gun at a citizen, he just replied he was cleaning it and wasn't thinking. No reprimands, nothing really said to the cop. The second was a friend who was sitting down on a curb waiting for a ride drinking a soda. A cop approached him and told him to put the bottle down and he was being arrested. All he could say was "Huh?" before the cop beat the crap out of him and arrested him. Apparently a riot or something was happening on the other side of town and they decided he was rioting too by throwing bottles at cars, I'm not sure how. Fortune tally the cop's car was taping it, and the cop was fired and his lawsuit was settled. However these incidents, and ones on the news, scare the heck out of me of what a cop will do to me when ever I'm approached, even though I've had more good or neutral experiences in the past then bad ones.
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I know it's an April Fools prank, but the lady down the street thinks this has already happened to the World Trade Center! She has been posting flyers for about 2 years now. She also thinks my dog (black lab) is a member of the CIA in disguise keeping an eye on her. Oh man, I am laughing so hard just thinking about it again.
Addiction is all in levels, and often people will find addictions in things they don't like. I eat in front of the computer at work all the time, I miss sleep for class stuff or to catch up with friends. They don't talk about being addicted to either of those things unless I am missing sleep or eating in front of the computer. I constantly neglect my "basic needs" to do things I enjoy, because I work 12 hours a day I don't have the time to do things I enjoy like read the news online or play WoW.
I think they need to take into account the things going on around a person for OCD like behaviors. A person may be spending too much time online, or gambling, or watching TV because they are depressed or disappointed with their life and it's the easiest way to do it. OCD is they can't control it, while a choice maybe they feel trapped and online is their escape or enjoyment in a tough or stressful position.
If a person hates their spouse they can see the choices of A) divorce, lose half their stuff and 30% of their income B) Go out, be physically not present and look for another spouse, maybe get caught and divorce C) do something else that distracts you and makes you happy enough to stand it. Then if some one says you are spending too much time and have to stop, you can blame it on an addiction and be blameless for your actions (and not confront the original problem).
After working in a lot of start ups and small businesses I was used to being on the rush and working smart I was hired at a large business. There I can do a months worth of work in about a day, and I'm the best in the position they ever had (the last person was so stressed by the position she would cry in the bathroom). If I break the norm and ask for more work, I end up getting assigned the work another sociopath should be working on but complained more about having too much work. So I just work on my master's projects and read ebooks to learn about new stuff. I would say it's slacking, but I'd rather do what gains me benefits then do some other persons work so they can do the same. I don't doubt people are working on personal things at work, like me above. However since a lot of businesses are only open during times people are at work or kids go nuts, it's necessary to do. This keeps people at work and productive (since they don't have to take the day off to deal with these things) so what's the problem? Then, if ones boss does not challenge the workers, what can you do either? I have been it places where you have to work 100% of the time when you're there, and it's filled with people taking off constantly to take care of little things in their personal lives and terrible moral.
Looking at this I see less of a problem with a largely non fissionable concentration of radioactive materials, and accidents do happen. However, when you get a private contractor that wants to do this as cheaply as possible combined with a secretive government entity you have pretty much a carte blanch to hire people who don't know what they are doing, screw it up, and get off without responsibility for poisoning people. If you want to debate about how companies can't get away with this I can send over a picture of a tailings pile the size of a large apartment block sitting outside of Colorado Springs filled with Arsenic. It has been there for about 30 years without any cleanup by anyone, and the mining company that mined for gold there (a bit different I know then radioactive materials, but similar concept) has had no responsibility to clean it up. So it just sits there leaching Arsenic into the ground water and rivers each time it rains.
I learned it in my business classes, but it's not usually related to salary but for marketing and consumer negotiations. The correct term is anchoring, and usually it's related to the fact that most people when they set a value they will not go more then 10% in either directions in negotiating. Also, 10% is usually considered the least amount of change required to make some one switch from one vendor to another. It's less for higher priced items and stores that are closer togethor, but 10% difference is usually a garunteed steal from a competator.
I think one thing wasn't mentioned in here that really should be, believable AI's. I am a great fan of sneaky games. and games where you can out manuver an enemy without standing there and seeing whos armor lasts the longest. Something like Prey, where you can't sneak period and they always see you through walls or jump out or portals so they always get the first shot. Also I like to be confronted with enemies that don't move in predictable patterns. Some of the WW2 games you sit there at a machine gun nest as swarms of enemies come from one direction as you mow them down, or enemies confronted with a heavily armed adversary run through open group like a sheep. On the other side enemies should not see you, train on you instead of your teammates that are firing on them, and head shot you in 2-3 seconds like brothers in arms.
Schools can definately do things to kids for whats done outside. I know in any of mine any sort of violent infraction (assault, threatening, etc...) kids were expelled without discussion, property crimes (B & E, graffiti, etc) they were suspended for a week, and repeated harrasment the harrasser was sent to anther class (if there was only one class and they needed it they were sent to the remedial class). I think it's more of a harrasment type thing. If some one calls you something who cares, but if they put up a website devoted to your fat butt covered with derogatory terms or repeatidly harrass in any medium then the laws should be strengthed. My sister in law had a online harrasser and we had to go to the kids parents to threaten him that if he continued we would get a restraining order and call the cops to bother them everytime the kid posted another comment (imagion the school trying to accomidate a restraining order between 2 students.....). The school would do nothing itself, even though most of it came from school equipment to a school email/BB or verbal/physical things on school property. I consider school more of a work type arrangment, and if they want to continue coming they need to abide by the rules of conduct. Kids may not be 18, but they are there to learn and are intelligent enough to know it's not the right behavior. If parents won't step up to the plate to show kids the correct behavior, schools are usually the next held responsable so they should have the power and the responsability.
My 2 cents, crazy or not. I believe in dinsaurs and the age of the earth to be billions of years, and not a bunch of fossils planted by god in a 6,000 year old earth. I think that if I got to be a higher being able to watch life I create unfold, I would want to create a start and see what happens. Then to see what diversity comes out of compition/disasters and celibrate it. We can look at these creatures with wonder and say "Wow, things like this actually existed? That is so awsome, I wonder what it would have been like", instead of the imagionation crushing "think as we do" vocal religous minority. Also, I don't think the writers of the bible could really understand any number as high as billions or even millions. Better to be vauge, and not have some one think you're a loony. I think people screaming at each other about how old the earth is are missing the point. The central tennent is kindness and generosity, which seem to have been lost in the "I"M RIGHT and YOU'RE NOT". Let people think and do what they want if it doesn't hurt anyone else, I think people are more creative and happier that way. I say let me deal with my own soul and beliefs, and everyone else deal with thiers any way that doesn't harm anyone else. No, I am not christian but I do believe there is a higher power out there. Whether I'm right or wrong in where I go to, or when I pray, or if I follow kosher or no alchohol, I feel my actions are what matters. If it's your beliefs and not actions that matter, then there is something wrong.
see them talk about is sending current through this device and being able to cool it down to -200 C without any bulky heat exchangers. If it does that I would stick a few in my car, a few -200 C would be fine to run the AC without any refrigerants. Heat into electricity isn't far fetched, but hard to do economically at smaller scales. I think it's bogus till I have some one independently show it works. There have been a lot of huge claims and nothing to back it up with recently. It's not to say it's not a good idea or it will never work, I'm just in the camp of I would like to see it to believe it.
For anyone who ahs trouble driving around metropolitan areas this would be awsome! You can take a look at the buildings if you were driving around. So I could see what I should expect to see when I'm driving up to said building, instead of trying to infer what the place looks like from the roof. I wonder if you can move the camera to capture city vistas without actually having to trek out there.
Knowing about the history of persia my be useful (Yeah right) The way I see it is time versus benefit. Learning requires work, creativity and the exapnsion of your knowledge. Alot of profs seem to think that means loading some one up till the crack, and then load them up some more. I'm not endorsing cheating, but say you studied well and learned the materials well enough but the prof you are required to learn even thing to the point where you could recite everything the chapters, what the professor said verbatium, and take all the equations and derive them into everything else they can be without teaching it. I have had profs that ask you for a 10 page term paper twice a week for 13 weeks summerizing a companys annual report refrencing all the news about them in the last 2 years, profs test on page numbers sentaces show up on, devote entire sections of tests to things they have said in passing, give dozens of questions a week to figure out, and any additional projects/analysis/etc. In a push for excillence more profs load their students up on work more instead of actually intellectually stimulate them, and cheating seems to be the only way to win at that sort of crap. Frankly I'm surprised it's so low with more and more students needing to work, or having family issues, at the same time. I would cheat I can know the subject and get a C or know the subject and cheat to be able to do the work and then get an A. Since students are judged more on their grades and not what they know, I'd rather just spend some time looking some obscure thing I need up rather then be able to do everything from memory.
Of course cheating happens. You have professors who seem to think their class is the only thing you'll be doing 24 hours a day for the rest of the semester. Take 5 classes like that in undergrad, or 3 in grad, and the only way to keep your head above water or sleep is to cheat (or invent a time machine). the worst in my experiance is I had one class where it was a choice to cheat, drop the class, don't sleep, or drop every other class and quit work. Since it was a required class for the major, you can see what pretty much every student in the class did (you could tell the few who didn't because they had breakdowns during class and the tests). Not to defend any actions, but B school is more important to find the answer then know it. Plus most of the things you do are group projects with one answer/source. One person spends a bunch of time to find each answer, change the wording, share, everyone only spends 5 hours on each answer and everyone doesn't spend 50 on the test. -Anon Student
I think this was a bit excessive, but if they are destroying things it wasn't that bad. If they were just climbing around the cops should have just told them to go home and that would be the end to that. I doubt they were doing much damage, I doubt enough to warrant keeping them on file for 5 years. The DNA recording was creepy, I think if you aren't charged you should not be put into the system like that.
While I don't hate cops, I have a few friends who are, there are some that really scare me and make it so I don't trust them in general. I had a friend who was stopped at an intersection with a cop staking it out and waiting for some one to run it. All of a sudden the cop points a shotgun at him, so he takes off like a bat out of hell. He eludes him, but later they come to his house and arrest him. The judge asks the cop what the heck he was thinking pointing a gun at a citizen, he just replied he was cleaning it and wasn't thinking. No reprimands, nothing really said to the cop. The second was a friend who was sitting down on a curb waiting for a ride drinking a soda. A cop approached him and told him to put the bottle down and he was being arrested. All he could say was "Huh?" before the cop beat the crap out of him and arrested him. Apparently a riot or something was happening on the other side of town and they decided he was rioting too by throwing bottles at cars, I'm not sure how. Fortune tally the cop's car was taping it, and the cop was fired and his lawsuit was settled. However these incidents, and ones on the news, scare the heck out of me of what a cop will do to me when ever I'm approached, even though I've had more good or neutral experiences in the past then bad ones.