I see you found a newspeak dictionary. I don't care how old it is. Just add all-inclusive definitions so that you can use 'racist' for any argument. Unfortunately dictionaries are complicit in creating and maintaining this meme.
Race is in the genes. All other characteristics are mutable. So far, a person cannot change his/her genes/chromosomes. So true racism is against (or for) something about a person that cannot be altered.
It is not wrong to oppose dilution or changing a country or society based upon cultural/ethnic grounds. This is especially true when there is culture clash. Historically cultures take over other cultures' territories by war. Infiltration is a kind of silent war that will eventually erupt.
...the novel "The Two Faces Of Tomorrow" by James P Hogan. That story, as designed would make the best yet movie (and video game) of the "evil computer -vs- humans" theme and what makes it great is not just the action but the ending.
Yes, it has been done to some extent as a way to calibrate radiocarbon dating. With a half-life of around 5000 years C14 goes away rather quickly on a geologic time scale and the error bars may increase with age. With a large enough statistical sample set, the accuracy can be improved but then one needs to know the exact age of death for trees in a swamp or bog.
I've not heard of any research relating tree-ring C14 to past climate, but it might be worthy of a thesis project. Serendipitously, tree-ring data also says something directly about the climate.
Actually we perhaps do have a pretty good record of cosmic ray activity from the C14 levels in tree rings. This is because it is cosmic rays that convert nitrogen into C14 making the radioactive CO2 that plants (trees) ingest and incorporate into their growth rings. Some trees are hundreds if not over 1000 years old.
When we look at the web as a community (country, state, county, city, neighborhood, family) the answer becomes clear. There is no way to absolutely prevent porn from being seen by minors and non-consenting adults. We do pass laws to help keep the material out of children's sight and out of our faces. And here in the US they work pretty well. So, we should model web rules (laws) analogously. Many existing laws already extend into the domain of the web. Ultimately, however, the final control is up to parents and local authorities.
In this way, a stroll through the web should be like a stroll through any town. Porn shop owners and liquor store owners are controlled by law and required to post signs and stop kids from entering. Like the XXX domain idea, their shops are often limited to specific location requirements. Of course, on the web finding out who are kids is a kind of Turing test but that is beside the point. Even in the non-web world kids will find their way into a parent's porn stash, so it is ultimately the parent's control of children's web access that is in need of assistance. It could be as simple as enforcing content tags (like portion marking in classified documents).
Let us keep the global community from becoming the global ghetto.
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I see you found a newspeak dictionary. I don't care how old it is. Just add all-inclusive definitions so that you can use 'racist' for any argument. Unfortunately dictionaries are complicit in creating and maintaining this meme. Race is in the genes. All other characteristics are mutable. So far, a person cannot change his/her genes/chromosomes. So true racism is against (or for) something about a person that cannot be altered. It is not wrong to oppose dilution or changing a country or society based upon cultural/ethnic grounds. This is especially true when there is culture clash. Historically cultures take over other cultures' territories by war. Infiltration is a kind of silent war that will eventually erupt.
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And so ...
The next Intel chip will be called 'Fargo'.
... the Borg system?
...the novel "The Two Faces Of Tomorrow" by James P Hogan. That story, as designed would make the best yet movie (and video game) of the "evil computer -vs- humans" theme and what makes it great is not just the action but the ending.
'Tis the last of the old Dick Tracy comic strip technologies to be realized.
Yes, it has been done to some extent as a way to calibrate radiocarbon dating. With a half-life of around 5000 years C14 goes away rather quickly on a geologic time scale and the error bars may increase with age. With a large enough statistical sample set, the accuracy can be improved but then one needs to know the exact age of death for trees in a swamp or bog. I've not heard of any research relating tree-ring C14 to past climate, but it might be worthy of a thesis project. Serendipitously, tree-ring data also says something directly about the climate.
Actually we perhaps do have a pretty good record of cosmic ray activity from the C14 levels in tree rings. This is because it is cosmic rays that convert nitrogen into C14 making the radioactive CO2 that plants (trees) ingest and incorporate into their growth rings. Some trees are hundreds if not over 1000 years old.
When we look at the web as a community (country, state, county, city, neighborhood, family) the answer becomes clear. There is no way to absolutely prevent porn from being seen by minors and non-consenting adults. We do pass laws to help keep the material out of children's sight and out of our faces. And here in the US they work pretty well. So, we should model web rules (laws) analogously. Many existing laws already extend into the domain of the web. Ultimately, however, the final control is up to parents and local authorities. In this way, a stroll through the web should be like a stroll through any town. Porn shop owners and liquor store owners are controlled by law and required to post signs and stop kids from entering. Like the XXX domain idea, their shops are often limited to specific location requirements. Of course, on the web finding out who are kids is a kind of Turing test but that is beside the point. Even in the non-web world kids will find their way into a parent's porn stash, so it is ultimately the parent's control of children's web access that is in need of assistance. It could be as simple as enforcing content tags (like portion marking in classified documents). Let us keep the global community from becoming the global ghetto.
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The real question is: what does the second amendment mean after translation to Spanish?