teeja

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We had nothing more than 'call -151'(geekandpoke.typepad.com)
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by teeja 17y ago
Like most standardized testing ... like the largely invisible 'accreditation' establishment ... like most education ... certification has been politicized. That's because education has been twisted into a vehicle of social-engineering. I'll
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by teeja 17y ago
I can tell you that the amateur radio 220MHz band was de-allocated and handed to UPS. I can suggest to you that that was true to a pattern - see Joseph Stiglitz: http://books.google.com/books?id=yxhV44nSN_4C&pg=PA110
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by teeja 17y ago
Gay-bashing. Your 34% statistic is interesting, although it lacks a comparison to heterosex. However: so what? Is there some reason a subculture should adhere to majoritarian statistics? Age differences do not equate with exploitation.My fa
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by teeja 17y ago
It could be argued that by enabling growing population with diminished consequences, he made the bomb bigger. There's no argument that pouring industrial chemicals into the soil has created a dependency on those chemicals - and their manufa
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by teeja 17y ago
"Most sexual relationships, feel free to prove me wrong, don't have a 20+ year age gap." There's no need to prove wrong a statement based on speculation. Gay men, go ahead and prove me wrong, are no more likely to have relationships with wi
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by teeja 17y ago
Rare, but it happens .. "President Bush apologized Thursday for the humiliation suffered by Iraqi prisoners at the hands of U.S. soldiers.." "President Clinton has apologized to the elderly black survivors of a government-run study of untre
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by teeja 17y ago
By "took over" of course, I meant "assimilated", not "came into existance." Those of us old enough to remember what this country was like 40 years ago know what I mean. Unless they're in denial about the stagnation of wages and the huge con
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by teeja 17y ago
If you put it online, it will fall out every time
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by teeja 17y ago
There'll never be a language that "the whole world should be using." What's optimal for one problem WILL be a poor choice for another problem. Not to mention wide variations in the capabilities of programmers.
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by teeja 17y ago
If authors only sell first digital/online rights, then they retain the opportunity to publish the material online later on. There are any number of writer's handbooks that advise authors which rights they can sell / not sell. Very good reso
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by teeja 17y ago
Why not write a book that lets you create your own programming languge in javascript ?? That way you at least get something useful out of the exercise. (Ducks)
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by teeja 17y ago
I think it's more interesting to ask whether computer emotions are possible. (Not merely the emulation of emotions.) A simple definition of consciousness is the difference between being asleep (mostly oblivious to self) and awake (aware o
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by teeja 17y ago
So much for "thinking different".
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by teeja 17y ago
What would life be without 10 ad exposures a minute?
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by teeja 17y ago
* Multiply 20 mV to 1.1 V * A nanowatt wake-up clock El cool. Will there be tens of thousands of these in forests everywhere before long? NOAA would probably like to have a lot more 'quick-snapshot' weather stations for simulations ... once
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by teeja 17y ago
Only because,of course, employers would rather build their $300,000 homes than give a young person a break in life. Which wasn't always the case. Greed only took over about 25-30 years ago. Ever since, real wages have stagnated or fallen fo
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by teeja 17y ago
Gosh that's involved. I'd just turn dot into '0', dash into '1', building a binary string; then when space comes along, use the binary as a pointer into an array. Luckily, all Morse characters fit in 8 bits. Baudot too.
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by teeja 17y ago
I can't believe you left out Tang.
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by teeja 17y ago
I hope they remember what (almost) happened to the Ringworld.
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by teeja 17y ago
As an 'average punter', I'd never never ever put anything I valued into a 'cloud'. Why become dependent on a service that can walk away at any time? How many times have people been screwed by net schemes that folded ... just for music alone
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by teeja 17y ago
"...over the last 60 years has unquestionably been one of the most aggressive nations in the world .... With breathtaking moral duplicity, the USA maintains enormous offshore havens ..." Thanks to Noam Chomsky ... and almost noone else ..
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by teeja 17y ago
Very so. As a lifelong rock and film fan, it's WP schoolin' me alla time. Cuz, as Mark Twain put it: "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
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by teeja 17y ago
Wikipedia can never work, it's a socialist experiment. ;->
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by teeja 17y ago
I don't trust the human body when it comes to pain. It tends to go on way longer than I need it to get the point. I also find it hard to think of something that strips away your motivation, even your desire to experience things that have al
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by teeja 17y ago
Crowd-sourcing is often richer in background that was filtered-out by newspapers. I'm feeling smarter about history and real motives than I did back when mass media were all I had.
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by teeja 17y ago
I learned yesterday that Edward Fredkin had a high-school diploma (and one year at Caltech) when he became a full professor at MIT in 1968. The value of a sheepskin is less now than it was then. It ain't what you know.
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by teeja 17y ago
Until it's squashed out of them, children are born learning machines. They'll quickly gravitate to whatever input stuffs them fastest. If that's not authors any more, then it's up to the authors. Not to the TV.
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by teeja 17y ago
One thing that slowed down WP was the suddenly perceived need for adding references ... unrequired for years. So a lot of effort got turned into improving the quality and reliability of millions of already-existing articles. A lot of people
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by teeja 17y ago
Here's a free idea, if you want to do it on the cheap: write your stuff to a USB stick, partner with someone who makes (appropriate) art, embed the stick in the art, sell as a package. Instant one-of-a-kind item that corporations can't emul

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