By the way, since he's not interviewing every single member of congress, the point is to probably get across that these people who are voting for the war won't have to face it's realities in a personal way.
And that is true. Fact is, there is only one child of a congressperson who served in either of the two current wars.
Common misinformation on both sides, cleared up by people on both sides in several TV interviews I've seen.
Major commercial flights were resumed by the time the Bin Laden's were flown out, but private flights were not allowed. Whether the charters used in the Bin Laden evacuation should have been flying in this case is open to discussion. But it does represent making a special exception for them.
The film, (though it may contain other inaccuracies and misleading segements) does not claim otherwise. There is no factual inaccuracies in it's reporting of the Bin Laden flights.
Sure, maybe "The Japanese" didn't do anything... but Toyota and Honda are still making more tightly designed and QC'd cars than pretty much anything over here... no?
Maybe now they'll be able to make cars that don't suck ass.
Sorry, I'm not trying to troll here, but it's amazing they're doing advanced research like this and still every American made car (read: GM, Ford, Chrysler) I use feels like they haven't learned the basics of design or quality control.
Just this past weekend I rented a Chevy Impala from Alamo. The car was brand new, with less than 100 miiles on it. Aside from the interior detailing looking and feeling cheaper than any similarly priced Asian or European car, it actually had a number of faults, including a trunk that wouldn't stay shut unless you slammed it, and a terribly laggy response from the throttle.
And I've tried higher end American made cars as well. It just seems like buck for buck you can get a better machine from Europe or Asia.
Nanotech or no, I would like to see the American car manufacturers clean up their act. I love my country, but I am frankly embarassed that we're still trailing a full two decades after the Japanese schooled us in automobile manufacturing.
The complexity of all these different particles will collapse into something much simpler when we look at it all from a different angle. Since I can't think of any other way to discover this "different angle", I am in favor of the physicists continuing with the current research methods -- finding more and more new and bizarre particles until it becomes obvious what we're actually looking at.
String theory, where all particles are just different vibration frequencies of otherwise identical loops of "string", is rather appealing. But it seems we can't quite wrap our math around it yet.
Of course the universe is under no obligation to be simple or elegant, but it just often seems to be the way -- a random complex thing becomes simple and obvious when viewed in the appropriate context.
And if you can find evidence of older occassions, I'll change my view.
Ah, the ostrich technique. Good luck with that.
But with God, all things are possible.
I grew up in a family that believed this. My grandfather was founder and pastor of the church, and he was a great man. But if you really believe that a human can claim to do "all things" with the help God, you are terribly naive.
I think it's because books and movies are fairly representational and dualistic; i.e. left brain formatted -- which lends itself to analysis. Music is probably the most abstract artform that has achieved mainstream acceptance. Except for lyrics (certainly not the core of why we listen to music) it can't realistically be called representational. It is very right brain formatted -- i.e. emotional, spatial, temporal, things that generally defy description.
Or something like that. What do I know... I'm only a musician:)
The rules of priesthood have existed for thousands of years. The pedophilia only existed a few decades.
If you believe this you are a bit naive. The pedophilia only has been reported and recorded for a few decades.
you're more likely to be abused by a camp councilor or Protestant minister than you are a Catholic priest.
I'd like to see your sources for that. Do they take into account the fact that one of the worlds largest and most powerful orgnaizations has an interest in covering up the misdeeds of the priests while no such mechanism exists for quieting the crimes of camp councilors or protestant ministers?
I'm not saying that all Catholic priests are prone to this. But you can see in many cases when a man is denied his god given urge for sexual companionship some unsavory things can happen...
Completely absurd? So you think that it was a negligable portion of the priests that took part in the molestation?
I don't like bashing people's beliefs. But the rules of priesthood will always encourage this type of behavior. And why in God's name would we want to do that?
I'm a big fan of RAID 10. With the cheap price of space these days, you can basically have the best of both worlds: faster perforamance and more dependable than a single drive.
Though RAID 5 is the most popular I've found the write penalty to be a problem. And rebuilds are slow. Anyways, check out this page about different RAID types. I found it most helpful.
The problem with this comparison is the fact that Catholics never have advocated pedophilia.
You're right -- they never advocated it. But they put a set of guidelines in place that practically guarantees such behavior will occur in a non-negligable portion of their priests.
Now if they can just make a decent cross-platform runtime. Or let me compile it into a binary so I don't have to depend on whatever they've got or send them the whole runtime myself.
Or something like that. I really enjoyed my personal java project, but when I tried to do anything more advanced I just ran into such cross platform garbage that I couldn't see straight. I ended up using OpenGL instead.
I still have some long term hope for Java, though.
True, in it's current form it's merely a cool demo. But I imagine one could design an LCD that projected a different image depending on the angle you viewed it from. Kind of like those ribbed plastics (can it, beavis) that show different parts of the image depending on the angle... and thus alow simple animation and 3-d looking objects through small movements.
Of course, the image would also have to be grabbed from different angles... so we're talking a load of optics and processing and projecting. But I imagine it could be done in the next 25 years if someone wanted it badly enough.
Um, isn't this true for any non-toy problem in every language? I mean, even C, which is very a very small language by today's standards -- I may understand things on the line level a little easier but expand that out to a couple lines and there are once again 10 ways to do anything.
I think Perl operators take big bites: they do more and thus encapsulate more "different approches". Wheras in most languages there is a small set of operators but the combinations which you have to string them together to get anything done is longer and more complex -- thus you're back to having many conflicting ways of accomplishing the same thing.
...but nearly every guy I know would ask "what the hell does that mean" before getting too worried about it. However I've noted that a fair number of my intelligent female friends are quicker to act like they know what something means when they don't.
It's not that women are less knowledgable, but they're less likely to admit it, and risk looking stupid. Sad thing is that it usually backfires as there's few things stupider looking than being highly confident in one's ignorance.
I figure women do this is because of all the pressure for an intelligent woman to prove she's not ignorant. But really the smartest people are quick to ask questions and admit when they don't know something. How else would they learn so much?
Oh for Christ's sake, go back to the dark ages and burn some witches.
The event in question hardly qualified as porn. Every child who saw it has already gotten over it, except those whose parents haven't let the issue go.
The US has one of the most uptight and restrictive social concepts of sex of any western civilized nation, thanks to people like you. But we have the highest teen pregnancy rate. Also as we've become less uptight over the past several decades, our teen pregnancy rate has gone down.
If you think pissing in a water supply is similar in impact or violation level to exposing a breast, you're insane. And if your comment was merely an attempt to indicate this issue is a slipperly slope, you're just wrong. Cultures with more lax attitudes about sex haven't collapsed morally and in fact usually have less sexual crime and related problems.
I'm not surprised by this. ADC seemed like one of those things where Apple tried to make an improvement without thinking it all the way through. I thought it sounded cool at first -- one less cable from the monitor -- but quickly relized it actually complicated most configurations and limited choice.
Good riddance -- now I can use a normal, fairly inexpensive connector from a powerbook to an Apple display. And I can even hook it up to my PC if I want when I'm done.
Apple wants to make things simple -- but they often underestimate the simplicity of compatibility and stability.
I cheer every time one of these insane patents is granted. There is a breaking point for all this, and every dumb patent brings us an inch closer to the mainstream calling it all into question. The dumber the better.
I just hope we don't destroy the economy beforehand.
Excellent post, although I'd replace "criminals and prostitutes" with something less objectively objectionable -- "try to act like they're all ghetto" perhaps?
If the world had that sort of mentality as a whole, war and riots would never cease.
My friend, I think you've hit the nail on the head. They never do seem to cease.
Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to "push the envenlope."
I am wondering -- is there any evidence anywhere indicating that the sight of a female breast at any age is in the remotest sense damaging to the psyche?
I am litterally floored by the reaction to this over the past several months. As a US born citizen, I know this country is f*d up beyond all belief when it comes to sexuality, but I really thought we might have let this slide after a few weeks of outrage. I am truly astounded that this event is still brought up as ammunition for anything.
Even the most prudish, uptight, puritanical among you: can you honestly claim that there are people who are going to live a worse life for this? That someone was hurt in a tangible way? Can you explain this to me in terms that a terrible hethen like myself might understand?
If not, then please live and let live for God's sake.
Which is all anyone needs, of course. But as long as I can remember there's always a large set of young men who have to have The Absolutely Biggest Fastest Bestest whatever if that whatever can be compared. From penises to computers to cars, stereos, and big screen TV's, some guys need to feel like the king.
I'm not much for this myself, so I don't really get it. I don't pass any harsh judgement on it -- though it is a bit amusing.
I am curious -- has anyone ever seen any hard-core porn done entirely with 3D computer animation? I'm kind of surprised this hasn't come about yet (no pun intended).
I used to do 3D animation (Lightwave 3.0!) and I never tried -- which is odd because I've played with porn in nearly every other medium I've worked in. I guess it's because it would be pretty hard (no pun intended again) to get it looking good, and it would be pretty creepy and nasty if it didn't.
If anyone has seen such stuff, I'd be curious to check it out. No goatse.cx please;)
Because you hopefully have better things to do than to rerip your whole CD collection for an improvement so small you can't possibly notice it while listenting through consumer headphones with your computer on in the background?
But I shouldn't talk. I'm actually considering the same thing since I don't have anything better to do:)
Just pause a moment and really think about why death is a problem, for you.
Because I enjoy life.
I don't "fear" death, I resent it. It's going to take the fun away and I see no reason (other than the technical challenges) why I shouldn't prefer to live indefinitely.
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By the way, since he's not interviewing every single member of congress, the point is to probably get across that these people who are voting for the war won't have to face it's realities in a personal way.
And that is true. Fact is, there is only one child of a congressperson who served in either of the two current wars.
Cheers.
Common misinformation on both sides, cleared up by people on both sides in several TV interviews I've seen.
Major commercial flights were resumed by the time the Bin Laden's were flown out, but private flights were not allowed. Whether the charters used in the Bin Laden evacuation should have been flying in this case is open to discussion. But it does represent making a special exception for them.
The film, (though it may contain other inaccuracies and misleading segements) does not claim otherwise. There is no factual inaccuracies in it's reporting of the Bin Laden flights.
Cheers.
That can not, CAN NOT be the whole story.
Why in the world not?
Sure, maybe "The Japanese" didn't do anything... but Toyota and Honda are still making more tightly designed and QC'd cars than pretty much anything over here... no?
Maybe now they'll be able to make cars that don't suck ass.
Sorry, I'm not trying to troll here, but it's amazing they're doing advanced research like this and still every American made car (read: GM, Ford, Chrysler) I use feels like they haven't learned the basics of design or quality control.
Just this past weekend I rented a Chevy Impala from Alamo. The car was brand new, with less than 100 miiles on it. Aside from the interior detailing looking and feeling cheaper than any similarly priced Asian or European car, it actually had a number of faults, including a trunk that wouldn't stay shut unless you slammed it, and a terribly laggy response from the throttle.
And I've tried higher end American made cars as well. It just seems like buck for buck you can get a better machine from Europe or Asia.
Nanotech or no, I would like to see the American car manufacturers clean up their act. I love my country, but I am frankly embarassed that we're still trailing a full two decades after the Japanese schooled us in automobile manufacturing.
Cheers.
The complexity of all these different particles will collapse into something much simpler when we look at it all from a different angle. Since I can't think of any other way to discover this "different angle", I am in favor of the physicists continuing with the current research methods -- finding more and more new and bizarre particles until it becomes obvious what we're actually looking at.
String theory, where all particles are just different vibration frequencies of otherwise identical loops of "string", is rather appealing. But it seems we can't quite wrap our math around it yet.
Of course the universe is under no obligation to be simple or elegant, but it just often seems to be the way -- a random complex thing becomes simple and obvious when viewed in the appropriate context.
Cheers.
And if you can find evidence of older occassions, I'll change my view.
Ah, the ostrich technique. Good luck with that.
But with God, all things are possible.
I grew up in a family that believed this. My grandfather was founder and pastor of the church, and he was a great man. But if you really believe that a human can claim to do "all things" with the help God, you are terribly naive.
Everyone falls.
Again, good luck.
I think it's because books and movies are fairly representational and dualistic; i.e. left brain formatted -- which lends itself to analysis. Music is probably the most abstract artform that has achieved mainstream acceptance. Except for lyrics (certainly not the core of why we listen to music) it can't realistically be called representational. It is very right brain formatted -- i.e. emotional, spatial, temporal, things that generally defy description.
:)
Or something like that. What do I know... I'm only a musician
Cheers.
The rules of priesthood have existed for thousands of years. The pedophilia only existed a few decades.
If you believe this you are a bit naive. The pedophilia only has been reported and recorded for a few decades.
you're more likely to be abused by a camp councilor or Protestant minister than you are a Catholic priest.
I'd like to see your sources for that. Do they take into account the fact that one of the worlds largest and most powerful orgnaizations has an interest in covering up the misdeeds of the priests while no such mechanism exists for quieting the crimes of camp councilors or protestant ministers?
I'm not saying that all Catholic priests are prone to this. But you can see in many cases when a man is denied his god given urge for sexual companionship some unsavory things can happen...
Cheers.
Completely absurd? So you think that it was a negligable portion of the priests that took part in the molestation?
I don't like bashing people's beliefs. But the rules of priesthood will always encourage this type of behavior. And why in God's name would we want to do that?
Cheers.
I'm a big fan of RAID 10. With the cheap price of space these days, you can basically have the best of both worlds: faster perforamance and more dependable than a single drive.
Though RAID 5 is the most popular I've found the write penalty to be a problem. And rebuilds are slow. Anyways, check out this page about different RAID types. I found it most helpful.
Cheers.
The problem with this comparison is the fact that Catholics never have advocated pedophilia.
You're right -- they never advocated it. But they put a set of guidelines in place that practically guarantees such behavior will occur in a non-negligable portion of their priests.
Cheers.
Now if they can just make a decent cross-platform runtime. Or let me compile it into a binary so I don't have to depend on whatever they've got or send them the whole runtime myself.
Or something like that. I really enjoyed my personal java project, but when I tried to do anything more advanced I just ran into such cross platform garbage that I couldn't see straight. I ended up using OpenGL instead.
I still have some long term hope for Java, though.
Cheers.
True, in it's current form it's merely a cool demo. But I imagine one could design an LCD that projected a different image depending on the angle you viewed it from. Kind of like those ribbed plastics (can it, beavis) that show different parts of the image depending on the angle... and thus alow simple animation and 3-d looking objects through small movements.
Of course, the image would also have to be grabbed from different angles... so we're talking a load of optics and processing and projecting. But I imagine it could be done in the next 25 years if someone wanted it badly enough.
Cheers.
So there's 10 ways to do something.
Um, isn't this true for any non-toy problem in every language? I mean, even C, which is very a very small language by today's standards -- I may understand things on the line level a little easier but expand that out to a couple lines and there are once again 10 ways to do anything.
I think Perl operators take big bites: they do more and thus encapsulate more "different approches". Wheras in most languages there is a small set of operators but the combinations which you have to string them together to get anything done is longer and more complex -- thus you're back to having many conflicting ways of accomplishing the same thing.
...but nearly every guy I know would ask "what the hell does that mean" before getting too worried about it. However I've noted that a fair number of my intelligent female friends are quicker to act like they know what something means when they don't.
It's not that women are less knowledgable, but they're less likely to admit it, and risk looking stupid. Sad thing is that it usually backfires as there's few things stupider looking than being highly confident in one's ignorance.
I figure women do this is because of all the pressure for an intelligent woman to prove she's not ignorant. But really the smartest people are quick to ask questions and admit when they don't know something. How else would they learn so much?
Kinda sad that it works out that way.
Cheers.
Oh for Christ's sake, go back to the dark ages and burn some witches.
The event in question hardly qualified as porn. Every child who saw it has already gotten over it, except those whose parents haven't let the issue go.
The US has one of the most uptight and restrictive social concepts of sex of any western civilized nation, thanks to people like you. But we have the highest teen pregnancy rate. Also as we've become less uptight over the past several decades, our teen pregnancy rate has gone down.
If you think pissing in a water supply is similar in impact or violation level to exposing a breast, you're insane. And if your comment was merely an attempt to indicate this issue is a slipperly slope, you're just wrong. Cultures with more lax attitudes about sex haven't collapsed morally and in fact usually have less sexual crime and related problems.
Good luck in life. Hope you get laid some day.
no more ADC.
I'm not surprised by this. ADC seemed like one of those things where Apple tried to make an improvement without thinking it all the way through. I thought it sounded cool at first -- one less cable from the monitor -- but quickly relized it actually complicated most configurations and limited choice.
Good riddance -- now I can use a normal, fairly inexpensive connector from a powerbook to an Apple display. And I can even hook it up to my PC if I want when I'm done.
Apple wants to make things simple -- but they often underestimate the simplicity of compatibility and stability.
Cheers.
I cheer every time one of these insane patents is granted. There is a breaking point for all this, and every dumb patent brings us an inch closer to the mainstream calling it all into question. The dumber the better.
I just hope we don't destroy the economy beforehand.
Cheers.
Excellent post, although I'd replace "criminals and prostitutes" with something less objectively objectionable -- "try to act like they're all ghetto" perhaps?
If the world had that sort of mentality as a whole, war and riots would never cease.
My friend, I think you've hit the nail on the head. They never do seem to cease.
Cheers.
Things like Janet Jackson at the super bowl don't make me feel sorry for the guilty parties at all. National tv with children watching and people feel the need to "push the envenlope."
I am wondering -- is there any evidence anywhere indicating that the sight of a female breast at any age is in the remotest sense damaging to the psyche?
I am litterally floored by the reaction to this over the past several months. As a US born citizen, I know this country is f*d up beyond all belief when it comes to sexuality, but I really thought we might have let this slide after a few weeks of outrage. I am truly astounded that this event is still brought up as ammunition for anything.
Even the most prudish, uptight, puritanical among you: can you honestly claim that there are people who are going to live a worse life for this? That someone was hurt in a tangible way? Can you explain this to me in terms that a terrible hethen like myself might understand?
If not, then please live and let live for God's sake.
Cheers.
and I can play UT2k4 and others on it just fine
Which is all anyone needs, of course. But as long as I can remember there's always a large set of young men who have to have The Absolutely Biggest Fastest Bestest whatever if that whatever can be compared. From penises to computers to cars, stereos, and big screen TV's, some guys need to feel like the king.
I'm not much for this myself, so I don't really get it. I don't pass any harsh judgement on it -- though it is a bit amusing.
Cheers.
I am curious -- has anyone ever seen any hard-core porn done entirely with 3D computer animation? I'm kind of surprised this hasn't come about yet (no pun intended).
;)
I used to do 3D animation (Lightwave 3.0!) and I never tried -- which is odd because I've played with porn in nearly every other medium I've worked in. I guess it's because it would be pretty hard (no pun intended again) to get it looking good, and it would be pretty creepy and nasty if it didn't.
If anyone has seen such stuff, I'd be curious to check it out. No goatse.cx please
Cheers.
Because you hopefully have better things to do than to rerip your whole CD collection for an improvement so small you can't possibly notice it while listenting through consumer headphones with your computer on in the background?
:)
But I shouldn't talk. I'm actually considering the same thing since I don't have anything better to do
Cheers.
Just pause a moment and really think about why death is a problem, for you.
Because I enjoy life.
I don't "fear" death, I resent it. It's going to take the fun away and I see no reason (other than the technical challenges) why I shouldn't prefer to live indefinitely.
Cheers.