Which is why you don't have any friends... But seriously - why is it self-righteous. If a friend was getting hooked on drugs would you intervene? If he was drinking himself to death would you intervene? If he was suicidal would you intervene? In all these cases you are making judgements that are "self-righteous". But you are a shit friend if you do not do anything.
Likewise, if someone starts abandoning all his friends (others have pointed out that this may not be the case, but for the sake of the original argument) and goes recluse because something happened to him I would certainly intervene.
Precisely who the hell are you to make that call? You're certainly not him.
Well spotted.
I'm all for living life the way you want but sometimes people need help rather than being left alone - despite the fact that they insist this to be the case. If this happened to anyone I knew and cared about I would certainly make that call.
He lives in a small apartment with his mother and doesn't talk to anyone. This is not a good life by any measure. He didn't behave like this before either - he went recluse as a response to the alleged behaviour of others in the mathematical community.
Actually if you visit foreign countries you can see why the stereotypes arose. They are not a guide for treating individuals but are interesting observation of average behaviour.
I though you were referring to additional scientific meanings rather than common English meanings. Also - who the hell discusses the various meanings of sync in English class?
Why do people say "the n word" as if its mere incantation is too much to bear? I'm all for people being polite - but if you are referring to a word outside of an insult then there is no harm done by saying the word as you are not actually trying to insult anyone. This way, I think, you are simply giving it more power.
I know it's easy/popular to say that all religious/spiritual people are idiots or just delusional, but it's disrespectful, untrue, and generally mean-spirited. It's also easy to say that all atheists or non-religious people are heathens or sinners, but that is also disrespectful, untrue, and generally mean-spirited.
That's all well except that unbelievers (incl. those of other religions) by definition of most religions are heathers and sinners, and religious folk are delusional because they believe in things that are not real. I'm all for holding hands and living in peace but that doesn't mean you should pretend to be blind to what is going on.
Most religions posit the earth as the centre of events in the universe. The creation stories (AFAIK) don't tell of other places and intelligent life being created at the same time - so it would be a bit troubling that they left important parts out of the narrative. However as the other poster mentioned - most would just roll with it and start a war by trying to convert them:|
This is silly - SETI have contributed a great amount to science - just do a google scholar search for SETI. The actual search is not an scientific experiment - I don't know what made you think it was - its more akin to a scientific survey. You go in, and find things that are of interest and then you study them. Just like hunting for extra-solar planets, or deep sea dives or any number of other scientifically beneficial activities. All of these don't test premises but gather primary data for further study. So lets think more and rage less.
Is there really much continuous development and content addition going on in paid MMOs? I only really have experience in WOW - and they only release new content on expansion packs which you have to fork out for. As far as I can see the monthly payment is just for server maintenance and to fill the money pool at blizzard.
I doubt that is the case - its probably a coincidence that those two things happened at the same time. Especially as you don't need to restart to change your IP settings.
As far as I know (I have been following the situation there closely but obviously I'm not on the ground) is that they have access and been using things like tor - but that this is not the best solution. I haven't heard of a home-grown solution but this is possible. The haystack program was design specifically with the Iranians in mind, and the surveillance strategies of their govt - I know the authors are well versed in the situation there in regards to the internet and they felt this program was necessary so I assume its functionality was not yet available.
It would seem logical that they would have distributed the program through back channels already but I have not heard it being used (of-course they would not advertise it - law or not). In any case this at least allows them to openly distribute it without additional problems.
This is not about IM or gmail or some other shit like that - this is about anonymity software like haystack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack_%28software%29) that has been designed to bypass filters and protect people from government surveillance that has been sitting and waiting to be released because of export restrictions that would make its release a crime. The authors have been loudly calling for this amendment for a while and I am glad that they finally got around to it. So instead of dissing the govt, you should be thanking them for doing the right thing, or at least righting a previous wrong.
Nobody serious is going to invest time in your claims - so you first off have to collect evidence yourself. For your particular case I would recommend that you have a video camera nearby that you can record your dreams / feelings when you get them - which you can then compare to the actual event. You will need to have some way of proving the time of recording - a good way to do this is to have a TV running in the background - you may think of better ways. Then once you have accumulated enough evidence (2 to 3 solid incidents) to convince serious scientists to invest time they will think of something to test it further.
In his case - he should write down what his dreams were and then when significant events occur he can compare. If the results are there then he can go a step further and organise for someone independent to act as scribe. Then he can publish his results and others will try and replicate it.
That's just excuses - write down every dream you have - you have them at most once a day so it doesn't take that long. Long term studies on drug research routinely take 40 years plus so that is just bull.
Then why have you not contacted scientists and asked them to have a look at you? Or even better why don't you conduct studies yourself - they are not difficult. If you truly believe what you say then it is your duty to your fellow man to advance our common knowledge. If what you say is true it will revolutionise our understanding of the universe.
For the next year count all the times when you did this and nothing happened and when you did this and the phone rang. If results persist do a double blind study and if still have results submit paper and become famous.
Everybody is happy to tell anecdotes but very few people are willing to take the time to seriously study their own claims. Even tho if what they believe is true the would become unbelievably rich and famous.
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Which is why you don't have any friends... But seriously - why is it self-righteous. If a friend was getting hooked on drugs would you intervene? If he was drinking himself to death would you intervene? If he was suicidal would you intervene? In all these cases you are making judgements that are "self-righteous". But you are a shit friend if you do not do anything.
Likewise, if someone starts abandoning all his friends (others have pointed out that this may not be the case, but for the sake of the original argument) and goes recluse because something happened to him I would certainly intervene.
Precisely who the hell are you to make that call? You're certainly not him.
Well spotted.
I'm all for living life the way you want but sometimes people need help rather than being left alone - despite the fact that they insist this to be the case. If this happened to anyone I knew and cared about I would certainly make that call.
He lives in a small apartment with his mother and doesn't talk to anyone. This is not a good life by any measure. He didn't behave like this before either - he went recluse as a response to the alleged behaviour of others in the mathematical community.
Which is why the US has never been able to enslave or discriminate against minorities at the will of the majority...
Actually if you visit foreign countries you can see why the stereotypes arose. They are not a guide for treating individuals but are interesting observation of average behaviour.
What about ROC? it has been ruling the island since 45, and it considers itself china, so its been under Chinese control for a while.
I though you were referring to additional scientific meanings rather than common English meanings. Also - who the hell discusses the various meanings of sync in English class?
Well then enlighten us hancho - don't just vaguely suggest an argument exists.
Why do people say "the n word" as if its mere incantation is too much to bear? I'm all for people being polite - but if you are referring to a word outside of an insult then there is no harm done by saying the word as you are not actually trying to insult anyone. This way, I think, you are simply giving it more power.
I know it's easy/popular to say that all religious/spiritual people are idiots or just delusional, but it's disrespectful, untrue, and generally mean-spirited. It's also easy to say that all atheists or non-religious people are heathens or sinners, but that is also disrespectful, untrue, and generally mean-spirited.
That's all well except that unbelievers (incl. those of other religions) by definition of most religions are heathers and sinners, and religious folk are delusional because they believe in things that are not real. I'm all for holding hands and living in peace but that doesn't mean you should pretend to be blind to what is going on.
Most religions posit the earth as the centre of events in the universe. The creation stories (AFAIK) don't tell of other places and intelligent life being created at the same time - so it would be a bit troubling that they left important parts out of the narrative. However as the other poster mentioned - most would just roll with it and start a war by trying to convert them :|
This is silly - SETI have contributed a great amount to science - just do a google scholar search for SETI. The actual search is not an scientific experiment - I don't know what made you think it was - its more akin to a scientific survey. You go in, and find things that are of interest and then you study them. Just like hunting for extra-solar planets, or deep sea dives or any number of other scientifically beneficial activities. All of these don't test premises but gather primary data for further study. So lets think more and rage less.
+1 - there is a statute of limitations on internet jokes. If its on every threat - its probably not funny. Lets come up with something original.
Yes... that would not be annoying at all.
Is there really much continuous development and content addition going on in paid MMOs? I only really have experience in WOW - and they only release new content on expansion packs which you have to fork out for. As far as I can see the monthly payment is just for server maintenance and to fill the money pool at blizzard.
What's interesting is that there are a couple of sentences where babelfish is actually better than google and the rest is way off.
I doubt that is the case - its probably a coincidence that those two things happened at the same time. Especially as you don't need to restart to change your IP settings.
As far as I know (I have been following the situation there closely but obviously I'm not on the ground) is that they have access and been using things like tor - but that this is not the best solution. I haven't heard of a home-grown solution but this is possible. The haystack program was design specifically with the Iranians in mind, and the surveillance strategies of their govt - I know the authors are well versed in the situation there in regards to the internet and they felt this program was necessary so I assume its functionality was not yet available.
It would seem logical that they would have distributed the program through back channels already but I have not heard it being used (of-course they would not advertise it - law or not). In any case this at least allows them to openly distribute it without additional problems.
This is not about IM or gmail or some other shit like that - this is about anonymity software like haystack (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haystack_%28software%29) that has been designed to bypass filters and protect people from government surveillance that has been sitting and waiting to be released because of export restrictions that would make its release a crime. The authors have been loudly calling for this amendment for a while and I am glad that they finally got around to it. So instead of dissing the govt, you should be thanking them for doing the right thing, or at least righting a previous wrong.
On the hamas leader see: http://www.michaeltotten.com/2010/02/more-like-this-please.php
Nobody serious is going to invest time in your claims - so you first off have to collect evidence yourself. For your particular case I would recommend that you have a video camera nearby that you can record your dreams / feelings when you get them - which you can then compare to the actual event. You will need to have some way of proving the time of recording - a good way to do this is to have a TV running in the background - you may think of better ways. Then once you have accumulated enough evidence (2 to 3 solid incidents) to convince serious scientists to invest time they will think of something to test it further.
In his case - he should write down what his dreams were and then when significant events occur he can compare. If the results are there then he can go a step further and organise for someone independent to act as scribe. Then he can publish his results and others will try and replicate it.
That's just excuses - write down every dream you have - you have them at most once a day so it doesn't take that long. Long term studies on drug research routinely take 40 years plus so that is just bull.
Then why have you not contacted scientists and asked them to have a look at you? Or even better why don't you conduct studies yourself - they are not difficult. If you truly believe what you say then it is your duty to your fellow man to advance our common knowledge. If what you say is true it will revolutionise our understanding of the universe.
For the next year count all the times when you did this and nothing happened and when you did this and the phone rang. If results persist do a double blind study and if still have results submit paper and become famous.
Everybody is happy to tell anecdotes but very few people are willing to take the time to seriously study their own claims. Even tho if what they believe is true the would become unbelievably rich and famous.