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How is this different from Einstein's hair? Or Stephen Pinker's hair? Or Sapolsky's hair?

Or rms' toenails?

But that means that actually, his body is a large part of his celebrity.

How is this different from Einstein's hair? Or Stephen Pinker's hair? Or Sapolsky's hair?

The 9 Greatest Longhair Scientists of All Time

Hear and believe! thy own Importance know,
Nor bound thy narrow Views to Things below.
Some secret Truths from Learned Pride conceal'd,
To Maids alone and Children are reveal'd:
What tho' no Credit doubting Wits may give?
The Fair and Innocent shall still believe.

Seriously, you think Al Gore's body weird-scienced with a Hawking-radiation brain boost would be more credible, for having no celebrity on looks alone?

A pair of security researchers in Russia

I've found a photo of this pair of "security researchers" in Russia:

https://pre00.deviantart.net/f...

Pot meet kettle. https://orig00.deviantart.net/...

the UK invaded the majority of the globe

Close enough

and is single highhandedly responsible for ruining the countries and by extension for all the migrants.

It's not exactly a fringe argument to say that Britain's colonial and post-colonial policies exacerbated local problems as well as inventing entirely new ones, especially when it came to its holdings in Africa and the Middle East.

I view immigration as a case of if your country sucks fix it.

What if other actors (e.g Britain or the USA) have had (and continue to have) non-negligible involvement in your country's development? Is it still entirely their fault?

... like this.

Seriously, I made a pinhole viewer out of a 10 foot piece of ABS pipe. I got a really nice image of 93% totality.

Animals have lived for millions of years without any money.

And yet somehow humans are the only stupid animal who can't figure this shit out.

> The right is inherent in the very nature of society

[[Citation]] because you are talking about only _one_ government and assuming that there is nothing better.

> real society

Define "real society".

Taxation IS theft. PERIOD. It is fantastical thinking has absolutely no relation to how a advanced society could ever function.

Your entire concept of money is based in a flawed premise -- there is never enough -- so we are going to create artificial scarcity to give it some "perceived" value -- and then take it from you without your permission.

As one alien said : "You mean you have to PAY to live on the planet you were born on???"

If people could dictate what X% of their taxes went towards education vs the genocide (military) far less people would have a problem with the complete and total mis-management of it. What other company do you know that is allowed to run decades with TRILLIONS of debt -- yet somehow it is magically OK when the government does it ??? WTF!!!

2001 $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

2004
http://blog.visual.ly/wp-conte...

2008
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs1...

2009
http://www.infohow.org/wp-cont...

2011
http://www.coolinfographics.co...

2012
http://chiefmartec.com/post_im...

* A decade into a project to digitize U.S. immigration forms, just 1 is online
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Lastly, the problem is not the taxes per say. Instead of having over 2,600 pages of BULLSHIT you could summarize the ENTIRE tax law with one sentence -- but since everyone is too fucking stupid to do anything about it we are stuck with a broken, in-debt, slave system.

It turns out that robots just enjoy watching human pain and suffering too much.

I shudder just thinking of what the open source community will develop.

Planet don't care. It's been happily spinning along for four thousand, five hundred and ninety-seven million years before the human race came along, and will be here for at least another four thousand million years after we are gone to join the dodo, the woolly mammoth, homo habilis, Australopithecus, the dinosaurs, the Arthropleura, the Cameroceras and the trilobite.

The manner of our passing, or, indeed if the genus Homo lasts as long as, say Dinosauria, is a far more interesting question.

Courage and stupidity are often correlated.

Well for starters I'm always on full-frame, so your 35 is basically my 50 and your 50 is basically my 85

It does depend greatly on the lighting setup of the venue, but while a poor lighting setup can be made better with external lights anything where it's workable it will kill it.

I do consider the two examples you gave as fairly samey.

Here's an example I took on the weekend on a dance floor, I cannot think how a flash would have improved this situation. The lens was full open at iso 6400. While it isn't an action shot it is an example of the kind of lighting I get sans flash. Using a flash would have killed the orange-blue contrast on either side of her shirt at the very least.

as for wedding receptions, I was at one as a guest recently when the official photographers bailed before the cake cutting/first dance recently. With only a prime in my hands I took this. I still fail to see how flash would have improved that image.

A very different style sure, and you are absolutely right that using a flash allows you to stop the lens down for greater depth of field/clarity. But they all feel the same and overdone, because it's too easy.

Well for starters I'm always on full-frame, so your 35 is basically my 50 and your 50 is basically my 85

It does depend greatly on the lighting setup of the venue, but while a poor lighting setup can be made better with external lights anything where it's workable it will kill it.

I do consider the two examples you gave as fairly samey.

Here's an example I took on the weekend on a dance floor, I cannot think how a flash would have improved this situation. The lens was full open at iso 6400. While it isn't an action shot it is an example of the kind of lighting I get sans flash. Using a flash would have killed the orange-blue contrast on either side of her shirt at the very least.

as for wedding receptions, I was at one as a guest recently when the official photographers bailed before the cake cutting/first dance recently. With only a prime in my hands I took this. I still fail to see how flash would have improved that image.

A very different style sure, and you are absolutely right that using a flash allows you to stop the lens down for greater depth of field/clarity. But they all feel the same and overdone, because it's too easy.

He's no "contrarian", merely a petulant child that likes to troll me for mocking him. Don't bother to take him seriously. I certainly don't. I think that is what upsets him more than anything.

Posting AC because we're drifting too far off topic.

Hey f****t I found your picture on the interwebs

There you go again

Vote for the grownup in the room. Petulance can be a big problem in this line of work.

Good morning to you too!

Hey, look! I found a picture of you. I don't draw so well either, had to use someone else's, but it's a perfect characterization of everything about you. Enjoy, and peace!

There's a huge difference between basic firearms and assault weapons.

By the most common used definitions of Assault weapon": assault weapon. not an assault weapon. The exact same gun, shooting the exact same caliber and the exact same number of rounds. One is just "scarier" than the other.

http://img10.deviantart.net/62...

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Even creepier was their response.

What about an augmented reality Fluttershy? <whisper>yay!</whisper> (warning: NSFW!)

If dying in a crevase is your idea of fun, then go right ahead ;)

Okay, to be fair, the flat-topped ice sheets are generally pretty safe. It's where the ice flows over contours and descends into the lowlands that they get dangerous, what we call a skriðjökull. They end up looking like this. And oftentimes these crevases form beneath before they become visible on the surface. The glaciers can also be (surprise surprise) very slippery at times.

Sometimes idiots actually try to drive passenger cars onto glaciers, if you can believe that.

That said, they are quite beautiful. But it's important to not forget, tourists actually do die here when they do stupid things.

http://orig04.deviantart.net/f...

This is the first time I wish I could post a photo in comments: http://pre13.deviantart.net/eb...

http://orig06.deviantart.net/8... ?????

How about providing a reasonable accommodation?

http://orig11.deviantart.net/b...

Moo

I may be posting this to late to get any visibility, but I have to try.

Voat is out of money. They took donations via Paypal until their account was suspended for unspecified reasons. They also suffered two massive DDOS attacks and has to pay out the wazoo to get on Cloudflair. Opponents of free speech play dirty.

Voat does not have ANY INCOME and servers can get expensive. The only way they can stay up is if a lot of people give them bitcoin. Their wallet is:

1C4Q1RvUb3bzk4aaLVgGccnSnaHYFdESzY

source: https://twitter.com/voatco/sta...

I hope those who value freedom of expression will take the Bitcoin plunge and donate.

It's about equality, comrade.

I'm voting for Fluttershy, you insensitive clod!

I mean, if it's okay with you...

I dunno, they might be a bit boring.

I don't think the Mandelbrot Set itself persay is all that useful, but its 3d relatives like Mandelbox, Mandelbulb, etc sure generates some amazing landscapes... I could totally picture that used in games or movies. It's amazing the diversity it can do with some parameter changes - steampunk machinery and evolving spacescapes, reactors / futuristic computers, art deco, extradimensional beings, alien cities, floating viny landscapes, transforming robotics, things hard to describe, etc.

I'd love to have a house / secret supervillain lair that looks like this one ;)

What are you talking about? Every self-respecting nerd should know that they're still here.

People need to stop picturing all dinosaurs as looking like some kind of leathery reptiles. I mean, we not only know now that velociraptor was feathered, but even how many secondary wing feathers it had (14). Jurassic park would have maybe not been as scary had their "raptors" looked like this. ;)

Meanwhile, some of their descendants today look like this and attack like this.

http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs4...

Oh, I'd love to see a booth with ponies!

Evolution is *predictive*? Really?

Yes Really
http://ncse.com/rncse/17/4/pre...

And Newtonian mechanics falls apart with more than two bodies!

http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs7...

Really, Earth, Moon, Apollo 11 that sounds like more than 2

For the general 3 body problem

http://news.sciencemag.org/phy...

Is Ignorance your bliss ?

Chappie looks a lot like a Warhammer 40K Tau jump suit - mostly the head, but still the overall resemblance is there.

like here: http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs23/f/2007/321/8/f/El__Jor_by_squirrel_san.jpg

Combine Chappie's head and the suit form District 9, and voila you have a Tau jump suit, albeit a more rounded and less armored version.

For completeness, some other mid-to-late '90s era icons:

BeOS
Amiga OS 3.5
NeXT
Mac OS 8
GNOME 1
KDE 1

Why can't it be both? We love both Tesla and iPhones. Merging of the two can also lead to a great transformation. Ooooooohhhhh, I wonder when Elon Musk will make my Telsa turn into an iPhone Autobot

Exactly. We don't have a collection problem, we have an outradeous spending problem.

Federal Budget Death & Taxes:
2004
2007
2008
2009
2011
2012

I.e. The government collect more tax dollars from the people than any nation in recorded history, still spend a Trillion dollars more than it has per year - for total spending of $7 Million PER MINUTE and complain that it doesn't have nearly enough money!?!?

Spending money to kill other people is NOT the solution to balance the budget.

I prefer the Windows 3.1 BSoD

Well, that's interesting, because TFA precisely talks about Ballmer designing the Windows 3.1 BSOD. The BSOD in the article looks different than your screenshot.

Most likely there are multiple BSODs in Windows 3.1, and Ballmer designed one of them.

I prefer the Windows 3.1 BSoD

By the way life is based on both a sort of ROM chip technology, called DNA, that mutates very slowly, and volatile RAM based technology, called the flu shot trainable immune system, and the volatile memory acquiring and forgetting brain. In the ROM area, the X chromosome, (the female being XX, the male being XY, and females almost never being colorblind because at least one of the X variation copies functions well) is critical, and contains all the basic functions of life, such as energy production, mitochondrial DNA and mutates extremely slowly, and successful variability in it has been carefully preserved in things like counting women as property and not killing them in a war but instead "looting them" and taking them with you (btw. a woman soldier with an Uzi or Kalashnikov or M16 is equalized to a male, and is not a noncombatant valuable property, or a "women and children first" above all property and male crew in importance "being," so her X chromosome variability will get X'd out pretty quickly.) The male is XY, and the wastable Y chromosome contains the brainpower and education, because mammalian human females get bogged down 9 months per offspring, and those that start at age 12 and 13 outcompete those that start at age 42 a few years before menopause in voting power (meaning all kinds of other power, mass presence power,) so a 12 year old female does not have the time to get a full college education in timewasting math and philosophy (she's still very good at psychology and english as mind control tools), instead she has to rely on the discardable 52 year old male Y chromosome who had another 40 years to get fully educated, to defend her, come up with new technology for her and think for her. A male reaches peak in sexlife at age 21, a female at age 30, but a female fully stops near age 45 (as she has to stick around with the baby, but a father is not necessary, or could be anywhere at the end of 9 months, let alone end of 20 years), while a male stays reproductive able til the end of his life (though there is a story of King David in the Bible, where in his old age they brought to him an absolutely gorgeous naked teenage girl, and he could no longer get it up anymore, even though he was very active in his youth (see this image http://th02.deviantart.net/fs7... )). Often the male is not available to help out raising the family, especially in a society where the divorce rate is over 50%. (So that leaves the female and the grandma on the mother's side of the family. Nobody cares about a child like his own mother and his grandma, and such separation was by far the greatest cruelty of the slavery in the US, and after the civil war the first thing people did was try to find old family members. Serfdom in medieval Europe did not separate families, even if the nobility landlords were free to enter the household and take 10% of everything they found as a military defense fee, and that included raping some of the female family members sometimes.) So the male is often not available. That is why the Pope sticks up for abstinence (yeah right, it's more like pretend-abstinence, as in don't openly discuss your masturbations with people you work with or your friends, and repress open social acceptance of sexual exuberance like gay/lesbian sex and marriage, even if it happens in the background, don't talk about it, especially not in a teletubby tinkie winkie is gay way, ma! what's gay mean?), monogamy (yeah, the father should stick around with one woman, unless he can keep his women from catfighting and living in the same larger households, like some men in Africa can pull it off, but monogamy is simpler, especially in an everyone is equal and equally broke way, polygamy is very expensive, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?...), and women should try to focus on being mothers from a young age, instead of higher education, and police and military service. That'

Well, but you could also compare for alternative KDE defaults: openSUSE kde theme, Netrunner KDE theme, Chakra Kde theme,Nitrux Theme, Rosa Theme... There's a lot of distros who doesn't ship a vanilla KDE theme... But if you want a more moder-looking KDE.. you could wait for the default theme (wip) in Plasma Next.. for example, for Dolphin

Thank (all the gods), this kind of thing is illegal in Finland. And most likely in the EU too.

By "this kind of thing", you mean using a camera in public, right? Is that really illegal in Europe?

In many countries, it is effectively illegal to take pictures that would compromise privacy of an individual in public.
Here's a per-country summary in case you are actually interested in learning about this and aren't just spouting typical /. incredulity...

Really there's only a right to take a picture in the US.

Why should the educated, secular States continue to support these backwaters that are filled with racist illiterates that contribute next to nothing to our GDP while consuming a disproportionate amount of Tax dollars in the form of Federal Subsidies?

Because Texas is actually a major economic player and some of us don't deserve to be stuck in Jesustan just because we literally haven't got the means to escape.

In this way, it's partly compassion partly necessity as well as politically impossible. The population of the US thinks of themselves as "Americans" first. In sharp contrast to the Euros who think of themselves as %State first and then European. This state of affairs is reflected in their economic arrangements as well as social.

The theocrats understand keenly that the real danger to their power is education, not exclusion from the union. That's why they want your children.

Though I still don't understand why people can't be arsed to lift a finger to throw the criminal scum out. Same reason we've got corruption in every other facet of government right now, I imagine. Let us all pray to Saint Franklin.

It's exactly the same amount of effort. You know how the trains currently have doors at the end of each carriage? Imagine that the door was bigger and always open, and that there was an airtight enclosure made of flexible material around the vestibule. That's it. To detach it, you just shut the doors and fold away the enclosure material.

As for standing over the gap- you get over it. The high speed service that passed through my town runs Intercity 125 trains, which have very rudimentary articulation; they're frequently "standing-in-the-vestibule room only", and I've passed many a happy multi-hour journey whizzing along at 200 km/h with one foot in one carriage and one in another, leaning against a slightly ropey-feeling piece of rubberized canvas.

Modern trains should be much better. A few weeks ago I rode of the first time on a Class 378 on the London Overground, which is a full-sized fully articulated train, and I was seriously and genuinely impressed. I mean literally, looking down the full length of the train was a thing of actual beauty.
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/163/6/5/London_Overground_by_lytom.jpg