Well, according to my trusty "Apple" dictionary, non sequitur" does mean "a statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement." So one could, for example, very well point out an accepted truth that plants use Carbon Dioxide in Photosynthesis to produce Oxygen, when, for example, talking about orbital mechanics, be no less "wrong," but no more relevant.
...and, of course, on more human timescales and in quite common adaptation to local conditions of climate and terrain, we have this thing called "breeding" or "animal husbandry." Again, not a particularly new idea, notwithstanding how breathlessly pronounced in sounding one's political clarion call.
Isn't this what used to be called natural selection, evolution, if you will, and isn't this how living things have adapted throughout the planet's history of continuous "climate change"? I call complete and utter (pardon the pun) bovine excrement.
Christian zealots. Muslim zealots. Atheists zealots. Maybe it's the "zealot" part that the major problem, since I'm quite sure that nobody has all the answers, yet zealots of all stripes presume to enforce their particular delusions of understanding.
The solution, of course, is "norming." Create a special math in which designated disadvantaged classes might better succeed. Then legislate federal mandates so that "normative math" is standard curricula for federally funded schools, and for government use, for example in budget preparation and statistical analysis for social program design and management. (I'm not serious; however, I predict that something similar is bound to be introduced in a legislature near you...)
No. Obviously not. I used to get this same sort of extreme counterpoint when I used to talk to my kids when they were little. I'd discuss some broad concept, then I'd get back an example outlier, something like, "but what if it was there was a Tyrannosaurus Rex blocking your way, then what would you do!" So, I'd often tell them something like, "go brush your teeth....it's bedtime."
Canada is a democracy. They make their own laws and govern themselves. It is none of my business as an American what they decide to do inside their own borders any more than it's my business what happens in the privacy of my neighbor own home as long as it stays inside their home. Privacy, mmmmkay?
The "typically low frequency radio spectrum bands (e.g. 900MHz and 1800MHz etc.)" of which the submitter speaks, are solidly in the Ultra High Frequency band, which ranges from 300–3000 MHz. He many have meant to say "low-power," which is very true but different altogether.
Just curious. Does TFA, when ascribing contributions to "unknown," really mean "anonymous"? I can't imagine such a significant contribution by any truly "unknown." But why would a corporation or other non-governmental institution wish to be anonymous? On the other hand, I can imagine why certain government entities might. Rand(thoughts).
Of course "they have the [power] to do to us anything we [don't] stop them from doing." That's a universal human and historical truth, and subject of Benjamin Franklin's answer to a passerby's question at the close of Constitutional Convention in 1787 with the veiled warning: "a republic, if you can keep it.' It's also the reason for the Bill of Rights which can only have meaning as long as there is vigilant scrutiny and determined enforcement. My only quibble with Heller is that fundamentally only individuals can have rights; governments, or any collectivist formulation, have only have persuasive or coersive power.
Best practice is to always create and use a non-admiistrator account for routine use, and an administrator's account only for **administration**. Also, never let someone else use your computer, period.
Axiom 1: The emperor, on occasion, has no cloths.
Corollary 1: Emperors' political appointees are reluctant to bring this condition to the emperor's attention at each instance of occurrence due to their dependency on the emperor's good graces.
Root cause: Human beings are imperfect, even the best and brightest among them; and even were they to approach perfection on any subject at any random juncture, neither conditions nor information are ever likely also sufficiently perfect to flawlessly formulate and execute their best laid plans.
Commentary: Thus it has always been; thus it will always be.
Implication: Be prudently wary of large and extremely complex laws, strategies, and "5 year economic (etc.) plans". Also, be extremely wary of the conceits that motivates them. Neither governments nor any other institutions conceived of man have ever been, nor will ever be, perfect. Therefore, they should be reasonably limited in scope and reach through vigorous public monitoring and judiciously enforced checks and balances within. That's what the U.S. Constitution tries to do. Recommend that we forget those principles, as we surely do from time to time at during every generation, at our grave peril. That said, every kid has to touch the burner at least once.
Assume that what you say or do in public is now, has ever been, and will always be public. That's not a new condition. Avoid doing or saying anything in public you'd be embarrassed for your Mom to find out about. Stay the hell off of "social media" sites; if you must (some employers strong arm for Linked-In), keep your footprint minimal, you activity low, your privacy settings maxed, and your ego in check. Immediately egress and abandon any "social," and every other site, that probes for information that makes you uncomfortable. Minimal internet presence is not only OK, but preferable to glaring and suspicion raising absence, because, be advised, methods for countering detection and targeting, including systemic traffic analysis, significantly include blending in with routine traffic. Although everything on the web is traceable and searchable, resources always have a pain threshold and imply a noise floor under which normal resources will not be routinely expended to engage without provocation or extraordinary need. Nothing can inoculate one from random occurrences of bad luck, malicious actors, or general misfortune; but, wise and moderate behavior reduces the odds. "Nail that sticks out gets hammered in." - Anon attributed as Japanese proverb
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Well, according to my trusty "Apple" dictionary, non sequitur" does mean "a statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement." So one could, for example, very well point out an accepted truth that plants use Carbon Dioxide in Photosynthesis to produce Oxygen, when, for example, talking about orbital mechanics, be no less "wrong," but no more relevant.
Soylent Green is....People!!!!!
Lots of money too in schemes like "carbon trading" and subsidies for "renewable energies," a la Solyndra. Just pointing out the obvious.
...and, of course, on more human timescales and in quite common adaptation to local conditions of climate and terrain, we have this thing called "breeding" or "animal husbandry." Again, not a particularly new idea, notwithstanding how breathlessly pronounced in sounding one's political clarion call.
Isn't this what used to be called natural selection, evolution, if you will, and isn't this how living things have adapted throughout the planet's history of continuous "climate change"? I call complete and utter (pardon the pun) bovine excrement.
"nazi zion WMD on credit free land freeloader religious cabalism"???? Is this from a random word generator?
...now take please your meds...
What do avocados have to do with linux? Avocados have pits, for goodness sakes, not kernels. Makes no sense.
One of the many joys of Lysenkoism in Global Warming science...
Maybe because human flaws are normally distributed, religion notwithstanding?
Christian zealots. Muslim zealots. Atheists zealots. Maybe it's the "zealot" part that the major problem, since I'm quite sure that nobody has all the answers, yet zealots of all stripes presume to enforce their particular delusions of understanding.
Yep. That one's true, by the war.
Mod + 5 "Freakin' Hilarious!"
Which, by the way says at the bottom of page 1...wait for it..."There are no FIPS Approved nondeterministic random number generators."
spot on...specifically FIPS Pub 140-2 Annex C (draft) "Approved Random Number Generators" which can be found at http://csrc.nist.gov/publicati...
The solution, of course, is "norming." Create a special math in which designated disadvantaged classes might better succeed. Then legislate federal mandates so that "normative math" is standard curricula for federally funded schools, and for government use, for example in budget preparation and statistical analysis for social program design and management. (I'm not serious; however, I predict that something similar is bound to be introduced in a legislature near you...)
No. Obviously not. I used to get this same sort of extreme counterpoint when I used to talk to my kids when they were little. I'd discuss some broad concept, then I'd get back an example outlier, something like, "but what if it was there was a Tyrannosaurus Rex blocking your way, then what would you do!" So, I'd often tell them something like, "go brush your teeth....it's bedtime."
Canada is a democracy. They make their own laws and govern themselves. It is none of my business as an American what they decide to do inside their own borders any more than it's my business what happens in the privacy of my neighbor own home as long as it stays inside their home. Privacy, mmmmkay?
The "typically low frequency radio spectrum bands (e.g. 900MHz and 1800MHz etc.)" of which the submitter speaks, are solidly in the Ultra High Frequency band, which ranges from 300–3000 MHz. He many have meant to say "low-power," which is very true but different altogether.
Just curious. Does TFA, when ascribing contributions to "unknown," really mean "anonymous"? I can't imagine such a significant contribution by any truly "unknown." But why would a corporation or other non-governmental institution wish to be anonymous? On the other hand, I can imagine why certain government entities might. Rand(thoughts).
Yeah, and I'm I'm probably on the same list as you are for the same reason. Looking forward to meeting you at Re-education Camp!
Of course "they have the [power] to do to us anything we [don't] stop them from doing." That's a universal human and historical truth, and subject of Benjamin Franklin's answer to a passerby's question at the close of Constitutional Convention in 1787 with the veiled warning: "a republic, if you can keep it.' It's also the reason for the Bill of Rights which can only have meaning as long as there is vigilant scrutiny and determined enforcement. My only quibble with Heller is that fundamentally only individuals can have rights; governments, or any collectivist formulation, have only have persuasive or coersive power.
Best practice is to always create and use a non-admiistrator account for routine use, and an administrator's account only for **administration**. Also, never let someone else use your computer, period.
Axiom 1: The emperor, on occasion, has no cloths. Corollary 1: Emperors' political appointees are reluctant to bring this condition to the emperor's attention at each instance of occurrence due to their dependency on the emperor's good graces. Root cause: Human beings are imperfect, even the best and brightest among them; and even were they to approach perfection on any subject at any random juncture, neither conditions nor information are ever likely also sufficiently perfect to flawlessly formulate and execute their best laid plans. Commentary: Thus it has always been; thus it will always be. Implication: Be prudently wary of large and extremely complex laws, strategies, and "5 year economic (etc.) plans". Also, be extremely wary of the conceits that motivates them. Neither governments nor any other institutions conceived of man have ever been, nor will ever be, perfect. Therefore, they should be reasonably limited in scope and reach through vigorous public monitoring and judiciously enforced checks and balances within. That's what the U.S. Constitution tries to do. Recommend that we forget those principles, as we surely do from time to time at during every generation, at our grave peril. That said, every kid has to touch the burner at least once.
Assume that what you say or do in public is now, has ever been, and will always be public. That's not a new condition. Avoid doing or saying anything in public you'd be embarrassed for your Mom to find out about. Stay the hell off of "social media" sites; if you must (some employers strong arm for Linked-In), keep your footprint minimal, you activity low, your privacy settings maxed, and your ego in check. Immediately egress and abandon any "social," and every other site, that probes for information that makes you uncomfortable. Minimal internet presence is not only OK, but preferable to glaring and suspicion raising absence, because, be advised, methods for countering detection and targeting, including systemic traffic analysis, significantly include blending in with routine traffic. Although everything on the web is traceable and searchable, resources always have a pain threshold and imply a noise floor under which normal resources will not be routinely expended to engage without provocation or extraordinary need. Nothing can inoculate one from random occurrences of bad luck, malicious actors, or general misfortune; but, wise and moderate behavior reduces the odds. "Nail that sticks out gets hammered in." - Anon attributed as Japanese proverb