“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...”
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Synopsis: The division is not left/right; that is the wrong way of approaching the situation. Instead it is individualism versus tribalism.
Here is the story:
Stand and face (let’s say) North. Put your hands together and extend them pointing towards N. Now, open them 90 degrees each until they cut 180-degree arc. Your hands just described the spectrum of regular, let us call it sane (enough) politics. Quadrant I (looking top down) is the right wing, quadrant II is the left wing. You might color them if you like. Let’s say the left is red and the right is blue. Now, what about quadrant III and IV? Those are populated with people who have taken either side to the extreme.
And here is an interesting fact – since we have numerous examples throughout the 20th century of both left and right going crazy (cross culture and cross race mind you!), we have very clear record of the tactics they applied. And they are largely the same! Labor camps – check, both the Nazis and the Commies did it. Group identity – check (superior race against everyone else in one case, the proletariat against everyone else in the other). Overreach of governmental meddling in people’s lives – check. Emphasis on “morality”, “patriotism”, “national pride” – check. Cult of personality – check. Stricter control of the populous, massive secret services and surveillance programs, emphasis on “reporting the undesirables” and “catching the enemy within” – check. Vilifying all who do not belong to said groups and do not sing endlessly the party line – check. So, the color of quadrants III and IV is mostly purple. Those people come from different quadrants but they end up in the same place (while hating each other viciously of course and completely not aware that they are the two sides of the same coin).
So, it seems to me that the actual division we must be aware of is not along the line North – South but East – West. At one end – North stands the sovereignty of the individual and the idea that all systems and ideologies are eventually oppressive so no ideology should be allowed to trump individual human rights and dignity. Equality in front of the law (or God if you will), maximum freedom for the individual to follow his/her ambitions, talents, capabilities, etc. and equality of opportunity are the hallmarks of that ideology. On the other side is the group identity and the toxic tribalism. The individual is but a cog in the great machine of the state. The party line is everything. Everyone else is an enemy. In the pursue of our goals anything goes (because we are right!). “The goals of the group and the greater ways are transcendent and (I am the one that defines them) to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment” – chairman Sheng-ij Yang.
And that is why, for instance, at the moment in the so-called intellectual dark web people as remote in their ideology as Richard Dawkins (fireproof atheist; top dog evolutionary biologists), Stephen Fry (gay; bleeding heart liberal and fireproof atheist who argues that the church is not a force for good; renaissance man), Ben Shapiro (conservative Jew who still thinks being gay is a sin) and Jordan Peterson (quite religious in his own way, fully aware of the dangers posed by people from quadrant III and IV) are allies and speak in one voice against the disappearance of freedom of speech, the cessation of a meaningful dialog between the left and right, the forceful and violent de-platform/shutting of/attacking stints by the extremists, the mainstream media fiasco and so on.I saw it with my own eyes and could hardly stop laughing – Shapiro for example was viciously attacked by both the alt-right and the commies who claimed he is one of the “others”. What can be more revealing than that?
Final note: we absolutely need both sides of the argument to go forward. Either extreme breeds destruction and suffering, but the
How do you know you are better than Asia? Assumption? Based on what?
A data point to consider. The popular view in Europe, both among the popolous and the powers that be is that Eastern European contries are not as progressive as the West, including the whole sex equality thing.... It's not true thought. Yes you have my word for it, so whatever but think - people in Europe are that ignorant about their neighbors. Assumptions about Asia? Ha!
Cheaper if you don't factor the damages and costs of pollution. Otherwise the most expensive item in a supermarket would be bottled water... BTW in many cafes in A'dam you are specifically asked if you want a straw with the implication 'think well if you really need it'. I found out quickly that I don't need it...so why pollute. I wonder if we can break the back of the marketeers that like to pack 5 gram item in 500 gram fancy colorful wraps...
You would have said the same if you saw us in class 35 years ago behind the wall. It works via self censorship. By the time you are 1st grade you already know to shut up and pretend... Go to NK and it will look even more peaceful and focused. But it is just a front...
May I also remind all bleading heart sjw's about the cultural revolution so we don't droll over Chinese 'harmony' and 'order' least we invite it in our society. Thanks!
Man, if you used 'bugger' deliberately you win the internet today....
Christianity.....inquisition was set to combat a very widely spread heresy, the Bogomils. Kill them all, God will know his own - the siege was laid precisely because there were heretics behind the walls... Of course language is often used to perpetuate a stereotype or simply to slander a group. And thus 'buggery' was born to describe the Bogomils as beastly..
It's even possible that understanding the aliens would be easier. At least they would be a product of biological evolution, which brings common ground features we can use to comprehend each other.
Indeed. If memory serves thete was an article about AI plying Go. After it beat all human masters they let it play against itself and later published those games. The human masters said that the strategies the machine employed were literally 'alien' to the human mind. So a completely different mode of 'thinking'. And that's for a simple, one task only AI. On the other hand isn't it exciting to ask questions to such non-human intelligence? We might get points of view which are literally inaccessible to our minds...
Ha, you native English speaking people don't have it scary enough. Many nations say 'Azot(e)' from Greek 'does not support burning' i.e. breathing. Other nations like the Dutch directly call it 'stikstoff' meaning 'suffocating gas'. What, I breath suffocating gas! We are all doomed!
There is no such debate it's false dichotomy. Also in Scandinavia the social pressure is in the noise these days.
You people are really communists eh? Forcing the populous to conform to your distorted worldview regardless of their desires. Damn I thought it all ended on 10.11.1989. BTW as someone who has lived in the 'equity paradise', I for one will fight you every step of the way, though sometimes I wish you'd win and learn what the revolution does to its children. If not for the millions of innocent people that you'd kill before that I'd just sit and laugh...
Well, if they played SMAC instead of that bs that is Beyond Earth it would have been better. I for one read Zaratustra because I liked the quotes so much. Did not get it at that age of course but it was a start....
A friend of mine showed the Matrix to his boys. They said it was old fashioned and SLOW! Well, when you grow up with Transformers what do you expect?
Will any gen Z person ever see 2001 while conteplating the themes of the film ( you can even have conversations about it while watching)? Not a chance.
We could go international (until they improve the algorithms). One of the best swears is Serbian (swearing champions of Europe - Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria), immortalized in the movie Underground where it is used against both the Nazi and the UN "peace keepers" 50 years later - "Mamku im/ti iebem fashistichku". No translation I have seen gives it justice - the official one is "fucking Fascist motherfucker(s)" but it actually is a promise/intention/desire to fuck the mothers of the fascists (swearing on mother is the ultimate offense; only old folks swear on God or disease in our part of the world).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Here - it's what he says just before nutting the UN blue beret (no subs, sorry, you can watch the full version with subs - it is a great movie actually)
All Slavic languages are similar, so the "bad words" are understood by all of us. Some, like "putka" (pussy, cunt) will be recognized by (some) Westerners, like the Spaniards or the French (puta); still, imagine the hilarity in Eastern Europe around the name Vladimir Putin (only the Russians differ slightly here - "pizda" is their word - used in Lord of War for instance). Another recognized one is "hui" which is a dick and of course "eba, ebane" - to fuck.
The Hungarians are a special case. First, their language is of course very different from all (apart from Finish). They swear like crazy! They say "horse dick" with the same ease we say "shit". Hungarians laugh hysterically during the scene in Blade runner when Gaff approaches Deckard at the food joint, he calls him "hey, horse dick!". Olmos was given the task to assemble futuristic, metropolitan blended language (like in Clockwork Orange) so he came up with that:) The Hungarans are the only ones I am aware off that blended fucking and God in a one swear - the most offensive one there translates literally as "I will fuck your Jesus".
Now, finally I have to announce that I will not be able to use any censored products, since I am genetically disadvantaged (hey, another victim category for the neo-Marxists to protect) - my four grandparents come from four different countries and three of those are the above mentioned champion swearers (the last quarter is Romanian which is not much better). So I can't help it but fuck their fascist mothers....with a horse dick;)
Suppose that there is a correlation. And? Ban video games because some potential killer might become 10 percent more effective? What if he goes to the gym? That would also make him better killer. Hey, the best strategy actually is to join the army. They train you to kill for free and even give you money! Hmm...dificult discussion this is.
That's the answer. Only from your food habits one can tell all kinds of things about you....from health to finance to political preferences... it might seem tedious and useless to a human to sift through all that boring data but the machine does not care and does it millions of times faster. 100 likes and they know you better than your friends. 300 likes and they know you better than you know yourself. That's proven BTW....
Last year at work I got to do a character test which turned to be surprisingly accurate. The interesting thing was that the HR was trying to convince the management to take the character profiles in mind when assembling teams (and all this had nothing to do with modern HR diversity strategies - they were honestly trying to improve performance). It is quite sensible really - in my own case I had already paired with a colleague who in my opinion brought traits that I lack and vice versa - the test caught that splendidly. So perhaps we can rely on something measurable?
Creativity as far as I know is still a mystery. There are claims of a correlation between it and character traits but it is not so easy. For example the test "big 5" of JBP's lab finds correlation between trait "openness" and creativity. I scored 93 percentile. And I've never done something big and creative although on a small, everyday scale I have received plenty of comments over the years like "now creative, I would never think to do it this way!". But I know myself well enough to realize that something else must matter too, something that prevents me applying that creativity for something important. Am I too anxious and thus afraid to try my ideas? Am I bad at planning and following through? Are there people who have the best of both worlds - creative and at the same time orderly (interestingly high openness predicts liberal political bias, high orderliness - conservative. Can anyone be both?). Surely in history we have examples of such exceptional individuals but how rare are they?
Would it work then to pair open extroverts with orderly introverts? Would they be able to work together or the difference in style would prove too much of a hurdle?
In conclusion my feeling is that big data/machine learning used responsibly can be very helpful in this matter. Because it seems that the system is complicated enough so that traditional approach might never catch an odd ball correlation like the one that creative people are born mostly in summer (this is fake fact, I thought it up as an illustration); whereas the algorithm will catch it even though you still have to look for causation and explanation (if any).
Yhea, and because the academics are so good in critical thinking they allow the SJW to rule.
Has anyone here ever read something about the communist revolution? You know who started the dissent? The children of the intelligentsia. Misguided idealistic (what we would call middle class) kids who wanted to fight for the rights of ANOTHER group, in this case the peasants. Russia was a super religious totalitarian hell hole at that time and sure enough the peasant were suffering. The western world was gaining speed because of the various freedoms which the Russians could only dream of. So the kids protested. Things did not change much. Then they started killing people (for those that think that "kill all white men" can never happen in reality). The powers that be only got tougher and more consolidated. Then the revolution came. Guess what happened with the intelligentsia when the oppressed low brow proletariat took power? Raped, tortured, killed. Enjoy!
Until today the Russians can recognize if one is a descendant of the peasants or the intelligentsia. No love lost there...
And so, the academics that are so high and mighty shrink away from the swastika but embrace the hammer and sickle. What critical thinking is involved in the endless stream of fallacious logic, emotion-based reactions, hysteria and fake news in support the division of the western world that would surely lead to disaster? Do you people know how ridiculous this is to anyone from a former communist state who possesses more than two brain cells?
I've been a leftie since forever but in the last 10 years it happened that I was too busy to pay much attention to politics. Every time a claim came from the left about those terrible imperialist businessmen and politicians I bought it and shook my head in disgust how low the world is sinking. Until I got more time on my hands and went and looked into the claims of the left. The horror! These people have abandoned science and reason along the way and had turned into ideologically possessed hysterics. Freedom of speech is bad if you don't say what I like. Biology is wrong (equity, people are identical rather than equal). History, anthropology, biochemistry, genetics, evolution...nothing matters. The politics on campus is dictated not by the science departments but the humanities. What critical thinking?????
The central tenet, the core of this ideology is that every difference in outcome between people is solely due to oppression and privilege. Is there anyone here who is an idiot enough to believe this claim? What critical thinking?????
Fake news from the left do not exists, you say? How about the now infamous interview of JBP on Channel 4? Has anyone of you, nerds, imagined how low the ideologically possessed can sink? See for yourselves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I know you will be embarrassed for that woman but bear with it - one day this will enter history books as the most illustrative example of the cognitive dissonance in a hysterical ideologue. It was so obvious that JP switched to clinical approach and was treating her as a patient.
Next day 15 lefty news outlets report that Cathie the lobster needed security experts to evaluate the "death threats" by the "army of alt-right internet trolls of Peterson". Only....there were no death threats and someone counted the ratio between the hate messages JBP and the lobster received and it was 30:1 for JBP. It was the lefties that broke the law on numerous occasions on campus to shut free speech. Triggering fire alarms, wearing masks, blasting with vuvuvzelas....and they receive overwhelming support form those critically thinking academics in the humanities!
Europe is in a fight over a legislation called the Istanbul Convention ATM. It's about encouraging sexual dysfunctions in children among many other nefarious things. Pediatricians are against it. Biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and engineers are against it (in my country there was te
Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS-
Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them for his master to clamber free.
HMM... Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. "DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, " he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT-
"No, wait master. Here it comes."
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up an caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
"May I?" said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
"'Some of the sheep, '" Albert read aloud. "Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside'd be better, then."
WHAT AN INTRIGUING PLACE, said Death. SADDLE UP THE HORSE, ALBERT. I FEEL SURE I'M GOING TO BE NEEDED.
Solar? Have you heard of Martian dust storms? Read on:
“Every year there are some moderately big dust storms that pop up on Mars and they cover continent-sized areas and last for weeks at a time,” said Michael Smith, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Beyond Mars’ large annual storms are massive storms that occur more rarely but are much larger and more intense.
“Once every three Mars years (about 5 ½ Earth years), on average, normal storms grow into planet-encircling dust storms, and we usually call those ‘global dust storms’ to distinguish them,” Smith said.
Mars’ dust storms aren’t totally innocuous, however. Individual dust particles on Mars are very small and slightly electrostatic, so they stick to the surfaces they contact like Styrofoam packing peanuts.
“If you’ve seen pictures of Curiosity after driving, it’s just filthy,” Smith said. “The dust coats everything and it’s gritty; it gets into mechanical things that move, like gears.”
The possibility of dust settling on and in machinery is a challenge for engineers designing equipment for Mars.
This dust is an especially big problem for solar panels. Even dust devils of only a few feet across -- which are much smaller than traditional storms -- can move enough dust to cover the equipment and decrease the amount of sunlight hitting the panels. Less sunlight means less energy created.
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“Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) and in fact failed entirely to be inside the expensive box when you opened it, this was expressly, absolutely, implicitly and in no event the fault or responsibility of the manufacturer, that the purchaser should consider himself lucky to be allowed to give his money to the manufacturer, and that any attempt to treat what had just been paid for as the purchaser's own property would result in the attentions of serious men with menacing briefcases and very thin watches.
Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys...”
Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Synopsis: The division is not left/right; that is the wrong way of approaching the situation. Instead it is individualism versus tribalism.
Here is the story:
Stand and face (let’s say) North. Put your hands together and extend them pointing towards N. Now, open them 90 degrees each until they cut 180-degree arc. Your hands just described the spectrum of regular, let us call it sane (enough) politics. Quadrant I (looking top down) is the right wing, quadrant II is the left wing. You might color them if you like. Let’s say the left is red and the right is blue. Now, what about quadrant III and IV? Those are populated with people who have taken either side to the extreme.
And here is an interesting fact – since we have numerous examples throughout the 20th century of both left and right going crazy (cross culture and cross race mind you!), we have very clear record of the tactics they applied. And they are largely the same! Labor camps – check, both the Nazis and the Commies did it. Group identity – check (superior race against everyone else in one case, the proletariat against everyone else in the other). Overreach of governmental meddling in people’s lives – check. Emphasis on “morality”, “patriotism”, “national pride” – check. Cult of personality – check. Stricter control of the populous, massive secret services and surveillance programs, emphasis on “reporting the undesirables” and “catching the enemy within” – check. Vilifying all who do not belong to said groups and do not sing endlessly the party line – check. So, the color of quadrants III and IV is mostly purple. Those people come from different quadrants but they end up in the same place (while hating each other viciously of course and completely not aware that they are the two sides of the same coin).
So, it seems to me that the actual division we must be aware of is not along the line North – South but East – West. At one end – North stands the sovereignty of the individual and the idea that all systems and ideologies are eventually oppressive so no ideology should be allowed to trump individual human rights and dignity. Equality in front of the law (or God if you will), maximum freedom for the individual to follow his/her ambitions, talents, capabilities, etc. and equality of opportunity are the hallmarks of that ideology. On the other side is the group identity and the toxic tribalism. The individual is but a cog in the great machine of the state. The party line is everything. Everyone else is an enemy. In the pursue of our goals anything goes (because we are right!). “The goals of the group and the greater ways are transcendent and (I am the one that defines them) to embrace them is to achieve enlightenment” – chairman Sheng-ij Yang.
And that is why, for instance, at the moment in the so-called intellectual dark web people as remote in their ideology as Richard Dawkins (fireproof atheist; top dog evolutionary biologists), Stephen Fry (gay; bleeding heart liberal and fireproof atheist who argues that the church is not a force for good; renaissance man), Ben Shapiro (conservative Jew who still thinks being gay is a sin) and Jordan Peterson (quite religious in his own way, fully aware of the dangers posed by people from quadrant III and IV) are allies and speak in one voice against the disappearance of freedom of speech, the cessation of a meaningful dialog between the left and right, the forceful and violent de-platform/shutting of/attacking stints by the extremists, the mainstream media fiasco and so on.I saw it with my own eyes and could hardly stop laughing – Shapiro for example was viciously attacked by both the alt-right and the commies who claimed he is one of the “others”. What can be more revealing than that?
Final note: we absolutely need both sides of the argument to go forward. Either extreme breeds destruction and suffering, but the
How do you know you are better than Asia? Assumption? Based on what?
A data point to consider. The popular view in Europe, both among the popolous and the powers that be is that Eastern European contries are not as progressive as the West, including the whole sex equality thing....
It's not true thought. Yes you have my word for it, so whatever but think - people in Europe are that ignorant about their neighbors. Assumptions about Asia? Ha!
Cheaper if you don't factor the damages and costs of pollution. Otherwise the most expensive item in a supermarket would be bottled water...
BTW in many cafes in A'dam you are specifically asked if you want a straw with the implication 'think well if you really need it'. I found out quickly that I don't need it...so why pollute.
I wonder if we can break the back of the marketeers that like to pack 5 gram item in 500 gram fancy colorful wraps...
You would have said the same if you saw us in class 35 years ago behind the wall. It works via self censorship. By the time you are 1st grade you already know to shut up and pretend...
Go to NK and it will look even more peaceful and focused. But it is just a front...
May I also remind all bleading heart sjw's about the cultural revolution so we don't droll over Chinese 'harmony' and 'order' least we invite it in our society. Thanks!
The laws are working fine! Nothing to worry about; I would never do anything that harms a human being!
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Rule of aquisition 286:
Safe spaces are not good for business!
Man, if you used 'bugger' deliberately you win the internet today....
Christianity.....inquisition was set to combat a very widely spread heresy, the Bogomils. Kill them all, God will know his own - the siege was laid precisely because there were heretics behind the walls...
Of course language is often used to perpetuate a stereotype or simply to slander a group. And thus 'buggery' was born to describe the Bogomils as beastly..
It's even possible that understanding the aliens would be easier. At least they would be a product of biological evolution, which brings common ground features we can use to comprehend each other.
Indeed. If memory serves thete was an article about AI plying Go. After it beat all human masters they let it play against itself and later published those games.
The human masters said that the strategies the machine employed were literally 'alien' to the human mind. So a completely different mode of 'thinking'.
And that's for a simple, one task only AI.
On the other hand isn't it exciting to ask questions to such non-human intelligence? We might get points of view which are literally inaccessible to our minds...
Ha, you native English speaking people don't have it scary enough. Many nations say 'Azot(e)' from Greek 'does not support burning' i.e. breathing. Other nations like the Dutch directly call it 'stikstoff' meaning 'suffocating gas'.
What, I breath suffocating gas! We are all doomed!
There is no such debate it's false dichotomy. Also in Scandinavia the social pressure is in the noise these days.
You people are really communists eh? Forcing the populous to conform to your distorted worldview regardless of their desires. Damn I thought it all ended on 10.11.1989. BTW as someone who has lived in the 'equity paradise', I for one will fight you every step of the way, though sometimes I wish you'd win and learn what the revolution does to its children. If not for the millions of innocent people that you'd kill before that I'd just sit and laugh...
Well, if they played SMAC instead of that bs that is Beyond Earth it would have been better. I for one read Zaratustra because I liked the quotes so much. Did not get it at that age of course but it was a start....
A friend of mine showed the Matrix to his boys. They said it was old fashioned and SLOW! Well, when you grow up with Transformers what do you expect?
Will any gen Z person ever see 2001 while conteplating the themes of the film ( you can even have conversations about it while watching)? Not a chance.
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We could go international (until they improve the algorithms). One of the best swears is Serbian (swearing champions of Europe - Serbia, Hungary, Bulgaria), immortalized in the movie Underground where it is used against both the Nazi and the UN "peace keepers" 50 years later - "Mamku im/ti iebem fashistichku". No translation I have seen gives it justice - the official one is "fucking Fascist motherfucker(s)" but it actually is a promise/intention/desire to fuck the mothers of the fascists (swearing on mother is the ultimate offense; only old folks swear on God or disease in our part of the world).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Here - it's what he says just before nutting the UN blue beret (no subs, sorry, you can watch the full version with subs - it is a great movie actually)
All Slavic languages are similar, so the "bad words" are understood by all of us. Some, like "putka" (pussy, cunt) will be recognized by (some) Westerners, like the Spaniards or the French (puta); still, imagine the hilarity in Eastern Europe around the name Vladimir Putin (only the Russians differ slightly here - "pizda" is their word - used in Lord of War for instance). Another recognized one is "hui" which is a dick and of course "eba, ebane" - to fuck.
The Hungarians are a special case. First, their language is of course very different from all (apart from Finish). They swear like crazy! They say "horse dick" with the same ease we say "shit". Hungarians laugh hysterically during the scene in Blade runner when Gaff approaches Deckard at the food joint, he calls him "hey, horse dick!". Olmos was given the task to assemble futuristic, metropolitan blended language (like in Clockwork Orange) so he came up with that :)
The Hungarans are the only ones I am aware off that blended fucking and God in a one swear - the most offensive one there translates literally as "I will fuck your Jesus".
Now, finally I have to announce that I will not be able to use any censored products, since I am genetically disadvantaged (hey, another victim category for the neo-Marxists to protect) - my four grandparents come from four different countries and three of those are the above mentioned champion swearers (the last quarter is Romanian which is not much better). So I can't help it but fuck their fascist mothers....with a horse dick ;)
Suppose that there is a correlation. And? Ban video games because some potential killer might become 10 percent more effective? What if he goes to the gym? That would also make him better killer. Hey, the best strategy actually is to join the army. They train you to kill for free and even give you money! Hmm...dificult discussion this is.
That's the answer. Only from your food habits one can tell all kinds of things about you....from health to finance to political preferences... it might seem tedious and useless to a human to sift through all that boring data but the machine does not care and does it millions of times faster.
100 likes and they know you better than your friends. 300 likes and they know you better than you know yourself. That's proven BTW....
Incredible! There was a saying about a fool and her money..... and that's coming from someone that has spent about 10 000 bucks on movies alone....
TFA was the last straw for me...no more going to the theater.... and no more additions to the collection.
Rewatching ST DS9 ATM. Now that is proper Sci-Fi....
BTW my friends that still watch Hollywood crap said del Toro's movie was absolute garbage but PC....well
What if this is the....uh....guy....girl...whatever that leaked Damore's memo?
Google surely would love to get rid of such employee...
Last year at work I got to do a character test which turned to be surprisingly accurate. The interesting thing was that the HR was trying to convince the management to take the character profiles in mind when assembling teams (and all this had nothing to do with modern HR diversity strategies - they were honestly trying to improve performance). It is quite sensible really - in my own case I had already paired with a colleague who in my opinion brought traits that I lack and vice versa - the test caught that splendidly. So perhaps we can rely on something measurable?
Creativity as far as I know is still a mystery. There are claims of a correlation between it and character traits but it is not so easy. For example the test "big 5" of JBP's lab finds correlation between trait "openness" and creativity. I scored 93 percentile. And I've never done something big and creative although on a small, everyday scale I have received plenty of comments over the years like "now creative, I would never think to do it this way!". But I know myself well enough to realize that something else must matter too, something that prevents me applying that creativity for something important. Am I too anxious and thus afraid to try my ideas? Am I bad at planning and following through? Are there people who have the best of both worlds - creative and at the same time orderly (interestingly high openness predicts liberal political bias, high orderliness - conservative. Can anyone be both?). Surely in history we have examples of such exceptional individuals but how rare are they?
Would it work then to pair open extroverts with orderly introverts? Would they be able to work together or the difference in style would prove too much of a hurdle?
In conclusion my feeling is that big data/machine learning used responsibly can be very helpful in this matter. Because it seems that the system is complicated enough so that traditional approach might never catch an odd ball correlation like the one that creative people are born mostly in summer (this is fake fact, I thought it up as an illustration); whereas the algorithm will catch it even though you still have to look for causation and explanation (if any).
Yhea, and because the academics are so good in critical thinking they allow the SJW to rule.
Has anyone here ever read something about the communist revolution? You know who started the dissent? The children of the intelligentsia. Misguided idealistic (what we would call middle class) kids who wanted to fight for the rights of ANOTHER group, in this case the peasants. Russia was a super religious totalitarian hell hole at that time and sure enough the peasant were suffering. The western world was gaining speed because of the various freedoms which the Russians could only dream of. So the kids protested. Things did not change much. Then they started killing people (for those that think that "kill all white men" can never happen in reality). The powers that be only got tougher and more consolidated. Then the revolution came. Guess what happened with the intelligentsia when the oppressed low brow proletariat took power? Raped, tortured, killed. Enjoy!
Until today the Russians can recognize if one is a descendant of the peasants or the intelligentsia. No love lost there...
And so, the academics that are so high and mighty shrink away from the swastika but embrace the hammer and sickle. What critical thinking is involved in the endless stream of fallacious logic, emotion-based reactions, hysteria and fake news in support the division of the western world that would surely lead to disaster? Do you people know how ridiculous this is to anyone from a former communist state who possesses more than two brain cells?
I've been a leftie since forever but in the last 10 years it happened that I was too busy to pay much attention to politics. Every time a claim came from the left about those terrible imperialist businessmen and politicians I bought it and shook my head in disgust how low the world is sinking. Until I got more time on my hands and went and looked into the claims of the left. The horror! These people have abandoned science and reason along the way and had turned into ideologically possessed hysterics. Freedom of speech is bad if you don't say what I like. Biology is wrong (equity, people are identical rather than equal). History, anthropology, biochemistry, genetics, evolution...nothing matters. The politics on campus is dictated not by the science departments but the humanities. What critical thinking?????
The central tenet, the core of this ideology is that every difference in outcome between people is solely due to oppression and privilege. Is there anyone here who is an idiot enough to believe this claim? What critical thinking?????
Fake news from the left do not exists, you say? How about the now infamous interview of JBP on Channel 4? Has anyone of you, nerds, imagined how low the ideologically possessed can sink? See for yourselves - https://www.youtube.com/watch?... I know you will be embarrassed for that woman but bear with it - one day this will enter history books as the most illustrative example of the cognitive dissonance in a hysterical ideologue. It was so obvious that JP switched to clinical approach and was treating her as a patient.
Next day 15 lefty news outlets report that Cathie the lobster needed security experts to evaluate the "death threats" by the "army of alt-right internet trolls of Peterson". Only....there were no death threats and someone counted the ratio between the hate messages JBP and the lobster received and it was 30:1 for JBP. It was the lefties that broke the law on numerous occasions on campus to shut free speech. Triggering fire alarms, wearing masks, blasting with vuvuvzelas....and they receive overwhelming support form those critically thinking academics in the humanities!
Europe is in a fight over a legislation called the Istanbul Convention ATM. It's about encouraging sexual dysfunctions in children among many other nefarious things. Pediatricians are against it. Biologists, chemists, physicists, mathematicians and engineers are against it (in my country there was te
Seeing the name I immediately thought "Lowry"
- Has anyone seen Mr. Lowry?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Death held out a hand. I WANT, he said, A BOOK ABOUT THE DANGEROUS CREATURES OF FOURECKS-
Albert looked up and dived for cover, receiving only mild bruising because he had the foresight to curl into a ball.
After a while Death, his voice a little muffled, said: ALBERT, I WOULD BE SO GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD GIVE ME A HAND HERE.
Albert scrambled up and pulled at some of the huge volumes, finally dislodging enough of them for his master to clamber free.
HMM... Death picked up a book at random and read the cover. "DANGEROUS MAMMALS, REPTILES, AMPHIBIANS, BIRDS, FISH, JELLYFISH, INSECTS, SPIDERS, CRUSTACEANS, GRASSES, TREES, MOSSES, AND LICHENS OF TERROR INCOGNITA, " he read. His gaze moved down the spine. VOLUME 29C, he added. OH. PART THREE, I SEE.
He glanced up at the listening shelves. POSSIBLY IT WOULD BE SIMPLER IF I ASKED FOR A LIST OF THE HARMLESS CREATURES OF THE AFORESAID CONTINENT?
They waited.
IT WOULD APPEAR THAT-
"No, wait master. Here it comes."
Albert pointed to something white zigzagging lazily through the air. Finally Death reached up an caught the single sheet of paper.
He read it carefully and then turned it over briefly just in case anything was written on the other side.
"May I?" said Albert. Death handed him the paper.
"'Some of the sheep, '" Albert read aloud. "Oh, well. Maybe a week at the seaside'd be better, then."
WHAT AN INTRIGUING PLACE, said Death. SADDLE UP THE HORSE, ALBERT. I FEEL SURE I'M GOING TO BE NEEDED.
Solar? Have you heard of Martian dust storms? Read on:
“Every year there are some moderately big dust storms that pop up on Mars and they cover continent-sized areas and last for weeks at a time,” said Michael Smith, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Beyond Mars’ large annual storms are massive storms that occur more rarely but are much larger and more intense.
“Once every three Mars years (about 5 ½ Earth years), on average, normal storms grow into planet-encircling dust storms, and we usually call those ‘global dust storms’ to distinguish them,” Smith said.
Mars’ dust storms aren’t totally innocuous, however. Individual dust particles on Mars are very small and slightly electrostatic, so they stick to the surfaces they contact like Styrofoam packing peanuts.
“If you’ve seen pictures of Curiosity after driving, it’s just filthy,” Smith said. “The dust coats everything and it’s gritty; it gets into mechanical things that move, like gears.”
The possibility of dust settling on and in machinery is a challenge for engineers designing equipment for Mars.
This dust is an especially big problem for solar panels. Even dust devils of only a few feet across -- which are much smaller than traditional storms -- can move enough dust to cover the equipment and decrease the amount of sunlight hitting the panels. Less sunlight means less energy created.
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/g...