Sometimes it's the school that makes it hard to take school authority seriously.
I say it not to stick up for outraged parents, but to point out that injustice hurts not only the aggrieved but also the institution of the oppressor. Parents can damage respect for authority, likewise so can authority by failing to deserve respect.
What do you call the government-sponsored bailouts of various financial companies, or government expanding into the health-care insurance market? Or a few years prior to that, the federalization of airport security into the TSA, or the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, or the Patriot Act?
Corporatism. The fact that it's big is just a side effect.
"Hey, corporate interests, would you like a large government under your control or a small one?"
If we continue to dumb down every piece of data for mass consumption, the only logical result is a mass of illiterate fools who can't think for themselves. The way things are looking, we're already halfway there.
I gotta say that I think you're wrong. "Dumbing Down" implies that vital information has been stripped out of the presentation. But if you can re-format the info in a way that is streamlined for use but retains the relevant info it's pure win. I would actually argue that if we make the data more consumable the we decrease the amount of dumbing down - as the target audience absorbs more relevant info.
Human laziness is constant. Formatting the info for ease or difficulty won't make people more or less lazy, it just changes the amount that people can mentally accomplish. A different way of saying the above is that human capacity is (relatively) constant, and the way to get more done is to make things easier to do - not harder.
Maybe it just shows that the availability of birth control is increasing? Perhaps smart people have had greater access to birth control in the past?
Given the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control: When it came to birth control in France, women were working for reproductive rights and they helped end the nation's ban on birth control in 1965. Finally in 1970, in Catholic Italy, feminists won the right to gain access to birth control information.[2]
It isn't too hard to imagine that use of birth control has not yet settled into a steady state. Couple that with the greater means of the upper class. It isn't far fetched to believe that trend to fewer children in the upper class ("smart") are perhaps not a permanent development.
A lot of records were made this way before the advent of the CD and now digital singles. Yes, today an album is simply a collection of singles, but once upon a time (and some bands still release them like before) an album was a work as a whole, never meant to be separated.
Don't be confused about the past... the notion of "filler" predates digital music storage. Musical tracks were played without their supporting albums routinely on the radio. The liner notes of a Michael Jackson CD I have suggest that MJ and Stevie Wonder actually went against the grain in the 70's to produce albums of uniformly high quality (at least within the genre). Sorry, can't find a source for that quote on line.
I'd say the main feature was that it made it a lot cheaper and easier to sit 16 people in a basement and play an FPS.
This is still what I do with a bunch of friends. I think we're all ready to move on from Halo, but there is a distinct lack of 4-player per console shooters out there for us to migrate to. I understand that there is one or two, and we've started putting more effort into figureing out what is available...
Without knowing a whole lot of astronomy I think the green laser pointer is a good idea. People point at the sky and so often I had no idea which dot they were pointing at. The revelation here is that you can get a green laser for $10 (shipped!) on ebay. 2 Weeks delivery time from Hong Kong.
Doctors call this 'tako-tsubo,' after the Japanese phrase for 'octopus trap,' so called because the syndrome was first identified by a Japanese doctor who noticed the strange shape in the left ventricle.
Can you imagine the patter in the ER / OR if we were to adopt more Japanese names for common ailments?
Doctor, the patient is suffering from the Octopus Trap! What? He's fibulating! Set us up the bomb! The Bomb is ready! Activate! *WHUMP* GASP... Beep... beep... beep... Doctor, he's stabilizing! Good! Keep an eye on him... There's a case of Giant Robot I need to address, and after that room 223's Frozen Devil Injury seems to be getting worse...
And for that reason, the Constitution should perhaps be changed so that corporations cannot do this.
Really, can't we just revoke corporate personhood? I'm not sure why a corporation should have a right to anything. They should have protection under law against injustice, but that isn't the same thing.
and don't show unskippable "FBI warnings" or advertizing?
Doesn't someone make a DVD player that ignores the unskippable flag? I would expect some no-name import with nothing to lose to implement such a thing.
Offtopic, perhaps, but I hope someone will read this and have a direction I can go to search...
When I was young, in the early '80s, publicity for the shuttle and other Nasa stuff was high. I was at a museum and saw a huge rocket, and there was material on TV, though my memories of it are dim. Associated with this Nasa material there was some music. I still remember listening to it and thinking "The future! Space! Amazing!" I was maybe 4-6 years old.
I've searched for it now and again, but haven't come up with anything remotely close. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone know where I can get a copy / hear it again?
You can play games as long as you can insert a disk and push the power button.
This also appears to be less true than it used to be. The Xbox user interface is full of retarded BS that routinely mystifies guests who don't actually possess an xbox of their own.
Tired of playing HALO w/ your buds? You can't just leave, you have to sign out. This requires you to monopolize the screen for 10 or 15 seconds (which is 10 or 15 s too long), and requires several button pushes that nobody is interested in memorizing b/c at that point they want away from the xbox as quickly as possible. Often people manage to drop the xbox + 3 remaining players from whatever session they were connected to at this point.
There are other issues with profiles that are confusing and / or stupid as well.
As I understand it, the Xbox 360 platform supports both the model of multiple controllers plugged into one console...
This appears to be less and less true as time continues. The roster of 4-player / console games seems to be getting thin. I guess they don't drive console sales enough...
I'm pretty certain that in all cases none of the consoles involved is acting as a server. If one was...
Those are all good reasons, but the real reason is so that you have less control over your experience. Folks connecting to each other w/o outside assistance aren't making anyone any money.
What I found lacking in the article was an actual discussion of how they were going to make security better.
That information is unavailable unless your security clearance meets or exceeds code blue . Troubleshooters have been dispatched to your location. Please remain where you are until The Computer has verified your identity.
C4 needs heat and concussion to go off, either one won't do it alone as the parent stated. Actually, you can burn the stuff. I guess some soldiers used to do so in the jungle when everything else was wet. So some soldier is sitting in front of his C4 campfire and someone a bit up the foodchain says 'holy crap, don't give away our position with a fire you moron!' and comes over and attempts to stamp out the fire. Blows himself up, instead.
Indeed. Laser might have higher upfront cost, but tend to cost a lot less per page.
Additionally, if you only print occationally Laser is an even better bargain. Ink cartridges will dry out wether you use them or not. Toner lasts much longer. Color lasers are less and less expensive, as well.
If you only print a few things a year it's easy to think "I'll get a cheap inkjet, I can't justify more." But you'll get very little printing per ink cartridge and this will be a very expensive case.
That's how I found it before I got my HP Laserjet 2600n anyway. It's been great and only cost me $250.
... not because Macintosh is all that, but rather because when they say "Hey, can you help me with my computer?" now I say "Sorry, it's a Mac. I haven't the foggiest idea how it works."
Don't forget the one where they try to use the laser to blow up a line of cars somewhere in the desert, but instead those spunky college students pop a whole bunch of popcorn in the professors house! That's my favorite test.
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What?! But... how will I detect lids?
Calexico and Mexicali are not amused by your theft of their copyrighted boarder-community-naming business process.
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Sometimes it's the school that makes it hard to take school authority seriously.
I say it not to stick up for outraged parents, but to point out that injustice hurts not only the aggrieved but also the institution of the oppressor. Parents can damage respect for authority, likewise so can authority by failing to deserve respect.
What do you call the government-sponsored bailouts of various financial companies, or government expanding into the health-care insurance market? Or a few years prior to that, the federalization of airport security into the TSA, or the creation of the Department of Homeland Security, or the Patriot Act?
Corporatism. The fact that it's big is just a side effect.
"Hey, corporate interests, would you like a large government under your control or a small one?"
Around here we see less than 1.5% IE6, but since we see only 10% IE in general, I imagine we're just lucky.
Lucky, nothing! The /. statistics will be biased because this site runs like a dog on IE!
The catalyst can be as simple as a coating on the injector nozzle as it enters the chamber, partial oxidizing does sound dodgy though.
Totally dodgy! Fuel is treated? Treated with what? Turns out when you "treat" the fuel with some NOS you get more output? You don't say!
If we continue to dumb down every piece of data for mass consumption, the only logical result is a mass of illiterate fools who can't think for themselves. The way things are looking, we're already halfway there.
I gotta say that I think you're wrong. "Dumbing Down" implies that vital information has been stripped out of the presentation. But if you can re-format the info in a way that is streamlined for use but retains the relevant info it's pure win. I would actually argue that if we make the data more consumable the we decrease the amount of dumbing down - as the target audience absorbs more relevant info.
Human laziness is constant. Formatting the info for ease or difficulty won't make people more or less lazy, it just changes the amount that people can mentally accomplish. A different way of saying the above is that human capacity is (relatively) constant, and the way to get more done is to make things easier to do - not harder.
Global Warming Stinks!
The parent sounds flip, but there are various movements that gather together under the conservative banner...
Conservative #1 - religious / social conservative
Conservative #2 - fiscal conservative, small gov't.
Conservative #3 - big-business + big-gov't, trickle down economics
One can complain more coherently if one is aware of the distinctions.
Maybe it just shows that the availability of birth control is increasing? Perhaps smart people have had greater access to birth control in the past?
Given the following from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birth_control:
When it came to birth control in France, women were working for reproductive rights and they helped end the nation's ban on birth control in 1965. Finally in 1970, in Catholic Italy, feminists won the right to gain access to birth control information.[2]
It isn't too hard to imagine that use of birth control has not yet settled into a steady state. Couple that with the greater means of the upper class. It isn't far fetched to believe that trend to fewer children in the upper class ("smart") are perhaps not a permanent development.
A lot of records were made this way before the advent of the CD and now digital singles. Yes, today an album is simply a collection of singles, but once upon a time (and some bands still release them like before) an album was a work as a whole, never meant to be separated.
Don't be confused about the past... the notion of "filler" predates digital music storage. Musical tracks were played without their supporting albums routinely on the radio. The liner notes of a Michael Jackson CD I have suggest that MJ and Stevie Wonder actually went against the grain in the 70's to produce albums of uniformly high quality (at least within the genre). Sorry, can't find a source for that quote on line.
I'd say the main feature was that it made it a lot cheaper and easier to sit 16 people in a basement and play an FPS.
This is still what I do with a bunch of friends. I think we're all ready to move on from Halo, but there is a distinct lack of 4-player per console shooters out there for us to migrate to. I understand that there is one or two, and we've started putting more effort into figureing out what is available...
Without knowing a whole lot of astronomy I think the green laser pointer is a good idea. People point at the sky and so often I had no idea which dot they were pointing at. The revelation here is that you can get a green laser for $10 (shipped!) on ebay. 2 Weeks delivery time from Hong Kong.
Doctors call this 'tako-tsubo,' after the Japanese phrase for 'octopus trap,' so called because the syndrome was first identified by a Japanese doctor who noticed the strange shape in the left ventricle.
Can you imagine the patter in the ER / OR if we were to adopt more Japanese names for common ailments?
Doctor, the patient is suffering from the Octopus Trap!
What? He's fibulating! Set us up the bomb!
The Bomb is ready!
Activate! *WHUMP*
GASP... Beep... beep... beep...
Doctor, he's stabilizing!
Good! Keep an eye on him... There's a case of Giant Robot I need to address, and after that room 223's Frozen Devil Injury seems to be getting worse...
And for that reason, the Constitution should perhaps be changed so that corporations cannot do this.
Really, can't we just revoke corporate personhood? I'm not sure why a corporation should have a right to anything. They should have protection under law against injustice, but that isn't the same thing.
I know, it's a pipe dream.
and don't show unskippable "FBI warnings" or advertizing?
Doesn't someone make a DVD player that ignores the unskippable flag? I would expect some no-name import with nothing to lose to implement such a thing.
Offtopic, perhaps, but I hope someone will read this and have a direction I can go to search...
When I was young, in the early '80s, publicity for the shuttle and other Nasa stuff was high. I was at a museum and saw a huge rocket, and there was material on TV, though my memories of it are dim. Associated with this Nasa material there was some music. I still remember listening to it and thinking "The future! Space! Amazing!" I was maybe 4-6 years old.
I've searched for it now and again, but haven't come up with anything remotely close. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Anyone know where I can get a copy / hear it again?
You can play games as long as you can insert a disk and push the power button.
This also appears to be less true than it used to be. The Xbox user interface is full of retarded BS that routinely mystifies guests who don't actually possess an xbox of their own.
Tired of playing HALO w/ your buds? You can't just leave, you have to sign out. This requires you to monopolize the screen for 10 or 15 seconds (which is 10 or 15 s too long), and requires several button pushes that nobody is interested in memorizing b/c at that point they want away from the xbox as quickly as possible. Often people manage to drop the xbox + 3 remaining players from whatever session they were connected to at this point.
There are other issues with profiles that are confusing and / or stupid as well.
It's a bummer.
As I understand it, the Xbox 360 platform supports both the model of multiple controllers plugged into one console ...
This appears to be less and less true as time continues. The roster of 4-player / console games seems to be getting thin. I guess they don't drive console sales enough...
I'm pretty certain that in all cases none of the consoles involved is acting as a server. If one was ...
Those are all good reasons, but the real reason is so that you have less control over your experience. Folks connecting to each other w/o outside assistance aren't making anyone any money.
What I found lacking in the article was an actual discussion of how they were going to make security better.
That information is unavailable unless your security clearance meets or exceeds code blue . Troubleshooters have been dispatched to your location. Please remain where you are until The Computer has verified your identity.
Unfortunate story I heard, from Vietnam I think.
C4 needs heat and concussion to go off, either one won't do it alone as the parent stated. Actually, you can burn the stuff. I guess some soldiers used to do so in the jungle when everything else was wet. So some soldier is sitting in front of his C4 campfire and someone a bit up the foodchain says 'holy crap, don't give away our position with a fire you moron!' and comes over and attempts to stamp out the fire. Blows himself up, instead.
Unintended consequences, what?
Indeed. Laser might have higher upfront cost, but tend to cost a lot less per page.
Additionally, if you only print occationally Laser is an even better bargain. Ink cartridges will dry out wether you use them or not. Toner lasts much longer. Color lasers are less and less expensive, as well.
If you only print a few things a year it's easy to think "I'll get a cheap inkjet, I can't justify more." But you'll get very little printing per ink cartridge and this will be a very expensive case.
That's how I found it before I got my HP Laserjet 2600n anyway. It's been great and only cost me $250.
... not because Macintosh is all that, but rather because when they say "Hey, can you help me with my computer?" now I say "Sorry, it's a Mac. I haven't the foggiest idea how it works."
Don't forget the one where they try to use the laser to blow up a line of cars somewhere in the desert, but instead those spunky college students pop a whole bunch of popcorn in the professors house! That's my favorite test.