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2015-11-18 at 3:31 AM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?
I'm 18, and just like any other young adult. I will take my SAT, then go to college, then get a job, then marry someone, then have kids.
Are you taking the non-core subject exams? If so which ones? Any college in mind and do you have a target score? Done any prep?
Protip is that the English (not writing) one is the easiest of the core three, don't waste too much time studying for it. The writing section is all technical, having the stupid 5 paragraph structure down and timing it, worth practicing for the timing you but can't really make yourself a better essayist through practice. Math is the only one worth doing drills/repeated practice and shit for.
I went to a shitty highschool so I had to get into college on SAT scores, wasted a lot of time studying for no real benefit. -
2015-11-18 at 3:14 AM UTC in "teen" angst
yea, i mean, i understand that but for example (this is just the first thing that popped in my head), if i tell someone about operation northwoods, they just dont believe it and refuse to even look it up themselves. or like, the other day i saw a dude with an imac with a "love" sticker on it. it pissed me off because hella chinese people are working like slaves and killing themselves to bring you that and you dont even acknowledge it because it doesnt fit with your yuppie image of the world. are we all just content with living with our head in the sands or what?
and as for the intelligence part, i was sort of joking. intelligence is subjective as fuck and just because you are extremely intelligent in one area doesnt mean you will be in another. ive met engineers who are dumb as a rock, but can do their job.
but i do get better grades in school than most everyone else with relatively little effort, and imo grades are definitely a measure of either intelligence, or your ability to fit in with society/work productively. i dont think im super smart or anything, sometimes i actually think i am retarded.
Well with the northwoods thing many people, myself included, have been harassed so frequently by conspiracy theorists that any time someone starts going there you just tune it out and exit the conversation as soon as possible. Among a wide field of nutjobs who never give up conspiracy theorists are the most unrelenting and, to be honest, least willing to engage in a subject with intellectual honesty. I don't know if that describes you or not but when someone says "muh northwoods" I instantly disregard everything that follows because it, empirically, just isn't worth my time.
There's an interesting question of "so what" though. Like ok, northwoods, that was a thing and we do actually have good evidence that it was a plan but so what? 9/11 was an inside job? What is anyone going to do about it? Even if we accept the premise we can't elect a candidate outside the major parties and revolution without military support is a non-starter. Even if you had 100% knockdown evidence of whatever you're mad about, if knowing about it isn't going to change what I do tomorrow then I don't really care. It's kinda like the deist God or whatever, something which has no observable effects on the world (or in this case knowing things that have no effects on my behaviour) is exactly the same as a thing which doesn't exist (or knowing thing X is perfectly equivalent to not knowing X). -
2015-11-18 at 3:01 AM UTC in Is it weird that I never stuck anything up my ass?Very weird, get to work son.
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2015-11-18 at 2:59 AM UTC in Do rainbows exist objectively?
No, colour is a function of your visual system and is not objectively a property the object you are viewing.
You keep saying that but you've done absolutely nothing to establish it.The object you are viewing has a surface that absorbs some wavelengths of light and reflects others. The existence of the object, the properties of the objects surface, and the wavelength of the light being reflected off the object are all objective. But the colour this object appears to be is not objective. The colour you perceive is a result of your own visual systems interpretation of the information it is receiving, as the scientific experimentation has demonstrated.
Wrong, I've already explained this to you. The very best the experiment could claim to show (and the methodology is so flawed as to be nearly meaningless) is that the subjective experience of color differs from person to person. But I maintain, and common/technical usage supports, that color is not the same thing as the experience of color. I can experience lavalamps differently than other people but this doesn't show that lavalamps do not have an objective existence,Colour information is transmitted out of the eye by three opponent channels, each constructed from the raw output of three types of colour receptor cells: a red–green channel, a blue–yellow channel, and a black–white "luminance" channel.
Sure, but like I said before "color information" or the qualia of color is not the same as color.Appealing to common practice doesn't save you from being incorrect.
It does actually, because what we're arguing about is the definition of color. The definition of words stems from common usage. You can't even claim a technical definition however, because we have terms like "infrared", "ultraviolet", and experts regularly talk about blue light or red light.
AND you're still sidestepping the fact that it's irrelevant what the meaning of color is. Rainbows emit light, light is objective even if you want to pretend color isn't, clearly rainbows have an objective existence regardless of how moronic you want to be about the meaning of color. -
2015-11-17 at 6:17 PM UTC in Bash scriptinglooks good. It might be worth pointing out `unzip` and `wget` aren't universally installed. I think unzip in particular has some license complications so it doesn't (or didn't for a time) come with Debian and similar distros. I think curl is slightly more widely available than wget but don't quote me on that. Probably not an issue in 2015 but something to keep in mind.
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2015-11-17 at 6:07 PM UTC in "teen" angst
like why is it ok that we live in a country where corruption is ok, and meaningless war is ok?
Probably because most mature adults have found better things to do than whine about it, and that life's worth living anyway. At least that's why people can be comfortable with it, but there's a lot of more rigorous answers as well (the french existentialists in particular, making their careers in the wake of WWII, have a lot to say about being content in a world with a lot of problems, most of them worse than what a 21st century american is ever going to face).but i say fuck all those people, im literally smarter than them and more competent
Lol, you're sure you're not a teenager? -
2015-11-17 at 5:58 PM UTC in Places you enjoy the atmosphere ofYeah, LA really is pretty much a shithole through and through. Hardly even a city, more like horrendous sprawl as far as the eye can see (about 30 yards on account of the fucking smog).
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2015-11-17 at 5:53 PM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?
late 20's, ex military and in college. going to become an engineer to make that $$$
Bleh, don't. Become a lawyer or doctor or something, at least those fields are already lost to money grubbery -
2015-11-17 at 5:50 PM UTC in ATTN: Spectral
I was writing that long before Anonymous even existed. Let's keep this factual, son.
*blue moon
More lies from the chronic liar, unsurprising. -
2015-11-17 at 8:48 AM UTC in ITT: we post pix of our catsBill Krozby, have you ever noticed you look a little like sploo?
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2015-11-17 at 8:38 AM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?so OT I guess, I'm 22, I don't have any particular plans besides trying to find interesting work and getting as good as I can at what I do. My only real goals are to do novel research again at some point and donate a little more but both those are kinda nebulous, no real timeframe. I guess living a long time in relatively good health is an ambition as well.
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2015-11-17 at 8:17 AM UTC in ATTN: SpectralSpectral, you've been preaching doom and gloom for almost a decade now you old fuck. You say the same thing over and over and once in a blue mood, by sheer force of statistical noise, you happen to say something that can be shoehoned through extreme mental gymnastics into something roughly approximating truth you write it down in your creepy e-victories book and act like your a fucking prophet for literal years thereafter.
Also it's funny after years of crying about imported chan memes you fucking rip off some cringy shit from anonymous. -
2015-11-17 at 7:07 AM UTC in The retarded thread: Fuck, §m£ÂgØL made one first edition
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2015-11-17 at 6:46 AM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?No, but it would be mildly sexually satisfying. I might get hard.
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2015-11-17 at 6:39 AM UTC in The hard problem of consciousnessThe real problem with consciousness is how anyone could think Kierkegaard is hotter than Wittgenstein.
P.S. philosophical zombies are fucking stupid. -
2015-11-17 at 6:07 AM UTC in How old are you and what are your plans for your life?Lol, believe it or not I'm actually familiar with "art of manliness", and while tasteful might not be the term I'd use it certainly is geared towards faggots.
The grant study is certainly interesting although it has its share of flaws. I will say the whole "bringing manly back" or "gentleman's movement" thing is not only cuckfodder but really really pathetic. I fall, in a very general sense, into the post-structuralist camp and generally consider the phenomenon of "manliness" and especially our cultural notions of the man/boy distinction to be archaic and generally harmful. But even if I didn't think that, the idea that people with penises in 2015 need some 50s themed self-help website telling them to keep journals and how to "groom" themselves is so cringeworthy, so fucking dickless, that I want to grab the author of these things by the shoulders and scream "FUCKING PUSSY" in their face until they're dripping with my saliva and then kick them in the nuts they don't actually seem to have. -
2015-11-17 at 5:49 AM UTC in Ok guys help me own this network.Shut up spectal, you're so obviously clueless it hurts to read. I really really hope you're just been trolling us for years because the more I think about how frequently you lie about knowing things you don't the more it makes me cringe, to the point of pain, at how pathetic that would be.
Also for the people capable of helping(That means you Lanny) It would appear perl scripts run and give output, what i am thinkng is that perhaps PyCat doesn't run because it makes use of the netaddr module which may not be installed on the server. Why it doesn't print an error message i still don't really know though, but when i was testing the perl script i was able to dump printed output to a txt file and was able to cat it properly, so it must be that something is up with the server's python install.
Oh, oh, derping out here. Try `python PyCat.py &> foobar.txt`, the important part bering "&>". Regular redirection only works for stdout, if you have an immediate error or something it may be getting spit out on stderr which is why it wouldn't have shown up before. -
2015-11-16 at 6:19 PM UTC in Ok guys help me own this network.
So, Sophie… tell me, why didn't your script provide any return? You apparently have all the answers and should know by now, so please share your extensive knowledge on the subject with us.
Confronted with the realization he can't keep bullshitting ad infinitum, Spectral resorts to parroting the very question he was asked. It's obvious neither I nor Soph know an exact reason why he's not getting output but it's even more obvious that you don't either, the difference is some of use are trying to troubleshoot while you're acting high and mighty trying to score some epeen points by spouting platitudes that you back out of as soon as anyone presses you to stop being vague and misleading. -
2015-11-15 at 9:11 PM UTC in Built a KeyboardNice. How do you get by on a 60% though? Navigation cluster is useless sure and I use my function keys pretty heavily although I can see how people could not care but lack of the arrow keys seems like it would be tough to work with. Like sure, you could probably drive an editor and custom shell without them but it seems like anything with text entry other than specialized tools (things like browsers, utility stuff, the shell on every machine you ssh into) is going to lean on them pretty heavily. Do you have some macro magic or does it really just not come up?
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2015-11-15 at 5:52 AM UTC in Ok guys help me own this network.
Some you can, and some you can't.
So which ones can you and which can't you? Why is there a distinction?
