drakep
As an undergraduate I approached many famous people in my field with nothing more than a smile and a hand out, they all understand where you are having been there themselves at some point.
Usually they will ask you what you're doing and show some kind of interest in your work or ideas.
Intuition will sometimes lead to ludicrous solutions...
Guess you have to use rationality to filter out the ridiculous ideas you can come up with intuitively...
Which would mean, there would be no increase in average IQ if average intelligence was increasing...
Guess What, You Don’t Own That Software You Bought
Surprise, surprise. The courts are making silly decisions yet again. Expect movies, music, etc, to come with licenses granting you the right to listen, instead of ownership of a copy. Yay?
Atheism, proselytism and other isms
http://futurismic.com/2010/09/09/atheism-proselytism-and-other-isms
"To me, there’s a fair amount of similarities between atheism, science and religion: they’re all beliefs."Personally I can't stand atheism or religion. Why can't more people take a nihilistic approach?