Really? From over here it looks like the US only has different degrees of the right wing, the tea party being so far to the right they have done a 270 degree outward fibonacci spiral. and ended up radical centrists, much like the Nazi party in 1930s Germany.
This just demonstrates that the two parties are just parts of the same machine. I would never donate to either side.
If it's any consolation, here in Oz we switched from right to left (well far right to centre-right) a bit before you guys across the Pacific and it hasn't turned out much better for us.
Yeah, it's not entirely reliable on multiplayer, it fails about 10% of the time at a guess. If no receiver recognises a station id, the minecart goes into an infinite loop. I have tried making a video of it to put on youtube but the extra drain on this system makes the receiver fail fairly consistently.
I'm working on a completely bullet proof system, but it's turning out to be a lot more expensive in redstone and also a lot slower than the current one because I'm using data flip flops to store messages.
You haven't played with redstone or minecarts? That's the thing that has kept me playing.
I have a minecart track with 5 stations that are all linked via serial communication via redstone. The current implementation can support up to 8 stations (3 bit station ids). I can go to one station, set in another station id using levers and press the send button. After about 2 seconds, a little piano note sounds and it's time to jump into the minecart and be automatically transported to the station I dialled in.
I'm working on a modified transmitter and receiver circuit that will allow n-bit station ids. It's tricky getting it compact enough because of the odd way redstone works, but that's part of the fun for me.
It's not exactly adventure, but Minecraft is awesome for all ages. I was put onto it by my teenage nephews. My 6yo kid loves it because it fires his imagination and I love it because he's learning good lessons about managing resources, oh yeah and developing redstone circuits to automate things or provide serial communication is a lot of fun too....
He's a little young to play on anything other than peaceful (he covers his eyes if I put it on Easy) but it's still hours of fun for him. The only trouble we have is the occasional tears when I tell him it's time to play outside.
What seems improbable to me is that the brain reached it's current level of complexity without quantum mechanics.
Or to put that another way, the distinction we draw between what happens on the macro level and quantum mechanical effects is an artificial one we invented because it helps us conceptualize things. That doesn't make any of it true.
So as you have said, a single photon in an eye can lead to some brain activity (that's "brain" as in the artificial distintinction we draw between the nervous system in the skull and the nervous system in the rest of the body). We don't know what consciousness is, but if it is a function of the concentration of nervous system in our heads, then surely quantum effects are involved. Our entire bodies are products of nature.
Everytime we accept an arbitrary distinction or artificial model as the truth, we become a little stupider.
That's how a country turns into a basket case that no one trades with. How do you think the rest of the developed world would react to the U.S. throwing a toddler-style hissy fit and demonstrating that they have no integrity and their word is not worth shit?
If they collapsed under the weight of the upper section, they would not have fallen as quickly as they did. There are too many holes in the official story and I'm yet to be satisfied.
Whether he was killed or not, this marks a sad day. We may never find out what happened. The administration found fit to announce this. Having never seen Osama in person, he could well be Santa Claus, or at least as real.
When the buildings came down, they fell at a speed appropriate to gravity (I use the word "speed" advisedly because it allows for air). The top fell at close to the ideal velocity which is really, REALLY, wrong for a building falling from a burning substructure and more likely from timed shaped explosives. Why? Never answered.
Eyewitnesses (including the ones who heard explosions at lower levels) were never called to the official inquiry. Why? Never Answered.
And so on and so forth. My take on all this is Bin Laden had dirt on US officials and needed to be removed. Until I see answers to the above questions and some more I have in waiting, I won't buy the "Osama was the evil mastermind" shit.
Guantanamo is the biggest threat. It demonstrates the USA has no regard for the rule of law, but the USA flexes muscle around the world. That makes the USA a target. Simple really. Obvious. Now get back to your six packs people.
Yeah, my last personal Windows install (last as in final - 6 years ago now) refused to install drivers for my printer. The box said it only worked on Windows and I could only get it to work on Linux. I even had the HP support people on the phone giving me registry edits to try, but no joy. They sounded quite surprised when I said it was okay to close the support ticket because it was working fine on Linux and that's where I was doing all my printing from anyway.
I'll put my vote into the whole "pulse audio is a steaming pile of carnivore shite" thing. Why can't people just use ALSA properly?
You about to cross a line there. Vegemite is a national hero! (The trick is to spread it thin on buttered toast or put a bit in a stew.... much like miso for the japanese) Vegemite on toast is great for a hangover.
I would imagine Canada would be more into fatty meats being colder. Colder climates need to eat more fat. Kangaroo is really low in fat but high in iron and protein, so it suits warmer active people like myself.
I was amazed when I spent some time in Germany and Austria how much I enjoyed eating pig. I never eat that much pig at home, but it seemed right. At home, especially Summer, 'roo is the first call for a BBQ.
Never tried them but I understand blackfellas wouldn't touch them and given their diet I don't think I would either. Kangaroo, snakes, goanna, croc are all good. Possum and koala not so good.
Hemp. Not the zany stuff hippies smoke, the low THC variety that is unpleasant to smoke but produces lots of oil and fiber in a really short time with minimal resource usage.
I had a shirt made of eucalypt that was very light, plasticy feeling and hard wearing.
The thing I found most odd about it wasn't that such a synthetic feeling fabric came from a plant, but that I live in Australia where eucalypts originate and the shirt was made in China most probably from Chinese eucalypt plantations, being the largest in the world.
I would like to see more done with eucalypts for plastics. They are a great source of celulose and other goodies, grow quickly without needing much water and they are not a valuable food source like bananas, corn and pineapple. And there's a reason we call them gum trees.
I don't mind an interesting mind putting his point forward and using multiple arguments to back it up. Yeah, maybe the guy got more page views, but I agree with him. Not from a religious Linus/Gates/Jobs is god point of view, but purely because I have used them all and I agree.
My personal list of favourites is as follows (worst to best): Windows XP (Vista is a silly joke and I haven't done dev on 7), OS/X, Linux/Gnome.
My reasons are based on my use case. Maybe I should write a blog and get page views, but my laziness is exactly the reason I prefer Linux/Gnome. Less stuffing around.
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Oh for sure. But at least we don't have nukes. Otherwise I would fear a rebirth of the "pacific solution" with a lot more glass.
Really? From over here it looks like the US only has different degrees of the right wing, the tea party being so far to the right they have done a 270 degree outward fibonacci spiral. and ended up radical centrists, much like the Nazi party in 1930s Germany.
This just demonstrates that the two parties are just parts of the same machine. I would never donate to either side.
If it's any consolation, here in Oz we switched from right to left (well far right to centre-right) a bit before you guys across the Pacific and it hasn't turned out much better for us.
Oh, and redstone repeaters make logic gates far more reliable.... I'll post a vid of a complex circuit as soon as I can. :)
mod points? +1 minecraft junky anyone?
Yeah, it's not entirely reliable on multiplayer, it fails about 10% of the time at a guess. If no receiver recognises a station id, the minecart goes into an infinite loop. I have tried making a video of it to put on youtube but the extra drain on this system makes the receiver fail fairly consistently.
I'm working on a completely bullet proof system, but it's turning out to be a lot more expensive in redstone and also a lot slower than the current one because I'm using data flip flops to store messages.
You haven't played with redstone or minecarts? That's the thing that has kept me playing.
I have a minecart track with 5 stations that are all linked via serial communication via redstone. The current implementation can support up to 8 stations (3 bit station ids). I can go to one station, set in another station id using levers and press the send button. After about 2 seconds, a little piano note sounds and it's time to jump into the minecart and be automatically transported to the station I dialled in.
I'm working on a modified transmitter and receiver circuit that will allow n-bit station ids. It's tricky getting it compact enough because of the odd way redstone works, but that's part of the fun for me.
It's not exactly adventure, but Minecraft is awesome for all ages. I was put onto it by my teenage nephews. My 6yo kid loves it because it fires his imagination and I love it because he's learning good lessons about managing resources, oh yeah and developing redstone circuits to automate things or provide serial communication is a lot of fun too....
He's a little young to play on anything other than peaceful (he covers his eyes if I put it on Easy) but it's still hours of fun for him. The only trouble we have is the occasional tears when I tell him it's time to play outside.
What seems improbable to me is that the brain reached it's current level of complexity without quantum mechanics.
Or to put that another way, the distinction we draw between what happens on the macro level and quantum mechanical effects is an artificial one we invented because it helps us conceptualize things. That doesn't make any of it true.
So as you have said, a single photon in an eye can lead to some brain activity (that's "brain" as in the artificial distintinction we draw between the nervous system in the skull and the nervous system in the rest of the body). We don't know what consciousness is, but if it is a function of the concentration of nervous system in our heads, then surely quantum effects are involved. Our entire bodies are products of nature.
Everytime we accept an arbitrary distinction or artificial model as the truth, we become a little stupider.
That's how a country turns into a basket case that no one trades with. How do you think the rest of the developed world would react to the U.S. throwing a toddler-style hissy fit and demonstrating that they have no integrity and their word is not worth shit?
Whose economy would suffer from that?
I don't know how stupid fuck is, but I think you's have to be more than a little thick to buy any of the shit that comes out of the US administration.
If they collapsed under the weight of the upper section, they would not have fallen as quickly as they did. There are too many holes in the official story and I'm yet to be satisfied.
not sure what a "birther" is - cultural reference I don't get....
Any physics based answers to my questions?
Whether he was killed or not, this marks a sad day. We may never find out what happened. The administration found fit to announce this. Having never seen Osama in person, he could well be Santa Claus, or at least as real.
When the buildings came down, they fell at a speed appropriate to gravity (I use the word "speed" advisedly because it allows for air). The top fell at close to the ideal velocity which is really, REALLY, wrong for a building falling from a burning substructure and more likely from timed shaped explosives. Why? Never answered.
Eyewitnesses (including the ones who heard explosions at lower levels) were never called to the official inquiry. Why? Never Answered.
And so on and so forth. My take on all this is Bin Laden had dirt on US officials and needed to be removed. Until I see answers to the above questions and some more I have in waiting, I won't buy the "Osama was the evil mastermind" shit.
Guantanamo is the biggest threat. It demonstrates the USA has no regard for the rule of law, but the USA flexes muscle around the world. That makes the USA a target. Simple really. Obvious. Now get back to your six packs people.
Oh dear. The thing I love about the GIMP is going to die.
Yeah, my last personal Windows install (last as in final - 6 years ago now) refused to install drivers for my printer. The box said it only worked on Windows and I could only get it to work on Linux. I even had the HP support people on the phone giving me registry edits to try, but no joy. They sounded quite surprised when I said it was okay to close the support ticket because it was working fine on Linux and that's where I was doing all my printing from anyway.
I'll put my vote into the whole "pulse audio is a steaming pile of carnivore shite" thing. Why can't people just use ALSA properly?
You about to cross a line there. Vegemite is a national hero! (The trick is to spread it thin on buttered toast or put a bit in a stew.... much like miso for the japanese) Vegemite on toast is great for a hangover.
I would imagine Canada would be more into fatty meats being colder. Colder climates need to eat more fat. Kangaroo is really low in fat but high in iron and protein, so it suits warmer active people like myself.
I was amazed when I spent some time in Germany and Austria how much I enjoyed eating pig. I never eat that much pig at home, but it seemed right. At home, especially Summer, 'roo is the first call for a BBQ.
Well if all their pot is useless and they've pulled out all their hair, how do you know they are hippies? Just a thought...
Never tried them but I understand blackfellas wouldn't touch them and given their diet I don't think I would either. Kangaroo, snakes, goanna, croc are all good. Possum and koala not so good.
Koalas don't live in Chinese plantations. And they are very selective about which specific trees the eat.
Oh yeah, and I prefer to call them hairy tree pigs. If you've ever heard them at night you'd know why.
Nah, it's the hoop snakes you have to look out for. Drop bears have nowhere to drop from when the trees have been turned into textiles.
Hemp. Not the zany stuff hippies smoke, the low THC variety that is unpleasant to smoke but produces lots of oil and fiber in a really short time with minimal resource usage.
I had a shirt made of eucalypt that was very light, plasticy feeling and hard wearing.
The thing I found most odd about it wasn't that such a synthetic feeling fabric came from a plant, but that I live in Australia where eucalypts originate and the shirt was made in China most probably from Chinese eucalypt plantations, being the largest in the world.
I would like to see more done with eucalypts for plastics. They are a great source of celulose and other goodies, grow quickly without needing much water and they are not a valuable food source like bananas, corn and pineapple. And there's a reason we call them gum trees.
I don't mind an interesting mind putting his point forward and using multiple arguments to back it up. Yeah, maybe the guy got more page views, but I agree with him. Not from a religious Linus/Gates/Jobs is god point of view, but purely because I have used them all and I agree.
My personal list of favourites is as follows (worst to best): Windows XP (Vista is a silly joke and I haven't done dev on 7), OS/X, Linux/Gnome.
My reasons are based on my use case. Maybe I should write a blog and get page views, but my laziness is exactly the reason I prefer Linux/Gnome. Less stuffing around.