I don't think it's as fundamental as a intellectual difference between Europeans and Americans it's just the dominant paradigm and it's domination is from being adopted early like M$ really when the choice was between MS-Dos, IBM-Dos and DR-Dos the best didn't win. The paradigm shifted to Windows and here we are coping with the result.
The best doesn't rise to the surface the most bouyant does and scum floats too.
Not that I'm criticising either of you but I think your debate is false because you are both really saying the same thing - choice is good but I'll stick with my way thanks. .oO0Oo.
A battery hen is a hen that is kept in a shed in a 3foot cubed cage with two other hens along with hundreds of other cages.
info from leaflets? some is. Mostly as decisions made from things witnessed first hand from working on / visiting farms to see for myself.
If you can adequately justify the dairy industry over the soya milk industry based on the degree of suffering then I'd be interested to hear it.
I embarked on my economic choices during the ethiopian famine back in 85. As I read up on the way in which humans waste so many natural resources to produce one set of foods I decided maybe I could do my small part to reduce my consumption. Meat & dairy went our of my diet and I feel much better for it.
I hope I help the ecosystem by leaving more water in it than if I lived on milk and beef.
My comments here are often trite and inflammatory and usually as a knee-jerk to some pro-hunting posts.
I can see that you may have studied this subject and it's a shame you don't draw similar conclusions. .oO0Oo.
I was reading New Scientist yesterday and one third of the two page article was mere speculation on some unlkely scenario. You know like "new storage media found... details of how it works... and then the dull this could mean that in 10 years time we'll all be wearing anti-gravity shoes or something"
If you actually think of it mathmetically everything has the ability to be broken down into steps (algorithms) and then assembled (programs). If you ACTUALLY think about it then your assertion is false. Maths is based on assumptions (axioms) which can't be broken down. As your brain specialises (maybe) on pattern matching then everything becomes a pattern and algorithm. All you describe is a Turing machine which is good for solving a subset of the available problems. .oO0Oo.
With iD opening up the source to Quake 1 it introduced an interesting conundrum - you can re-write the client to cheat. Many people have proposed solutions including checksumming the client etc. but there always seems to be an arms race type scenario to defeat such schemes.
Security through obscurity isn't exactly perfect but it seems to be a better solution than making the software Free. iD were going to sue somebody that made a derived closed client from GPL'd code.
Have you put any thought time into this because plenty of great minds have failed to solve it. How about yours?
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My slice on this one is that technology has reduced massively the amount of time spent doing work.
Unfortunately instead of distributing this "leisure time" evenly amongst the population it has tended to polarise.
In heavily technology focussed countries ( I take the UK as my example) the manufacturing base and agriculture that employed most people has reduced the number of employees. Thus saving humanity loads of time - that of the manual workers laid off. Unfortunately those that manage the technology now have more work to do. So instead of providing more "leisure time" for all it has oversaturated in some people at the cost of others.
Humanity needs to reconsider this distribution of time. In monetary terms the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer but time seems to distribute in the opposite direction for the many.
We need to re-distribute the workload not the wealth!
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hehe thanks
.oO0Oo.
I'm sure it would've made a great show too to have Ted there
I was just beginning to get food poisoning when I wrote that one.
Very tangy coleslaw - do no repeat
not obvious really
.oO0Oo.
europeans drive more manual shift cars than autos
why?
because that's what manufacturers make
I don't think it's as fundamental as a intellectual difference between Europeans and Americans it's just the dominant paradigm and it's domination is from being adopted early like M$ really when the choice was between MS-Dos, IBM-Dos and DR-Dos the best didn't win. The paradigm shifted to Windows and here we are coping with the result.
The best doesn't rise to the surface the most bouyant does and scum floats too.
Not that I'm criticising either of you but I think your debate is false because you are both really saying the same thing - choice is good but I'll stick with my way thanks.
find file dialog
.oO0Oo.
tabbed dialog boxes
KDE is a fine project, v.wortht I'm not knocking it but it did make me groan when I started using it for some of the stuff.
Interface Hall of Shame :
http://www.iarchitect.com/shame.htm
how about
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loading....
Vote Bush
.....
etc..
$100 woohoo
.oO0Oo.
I stole mine from WH Smith's
i'm rich, stinking rich!!!
Same with Basil Fawlty
.oO0Oo.
An odious man but you just see the despair in his eyes and see the despair in yourself
The only comedy worth watching is filled with pathos.
Ted Bundy knows that one married to Peg and all
and you have to collect rings
.oO0Oo.
your power ups include :
trainers
rings
go faster
midget type and your girlfriend has been kidnapped by a giant gorilla
.oO0Oo.
you have to avoid the barrels he throws at you and then escapes every time you get near him ad nauseum
maybe throw in a cart race
A battery hen is a hen that is kept in a shed in a 3foot cubed cage with two other hens along with hundreds of other cages.
.oO0Oo.
info from leaflets? some is. Mostly as decisions made from things witnessed first hand from working on / visiting farms to see for myself.
If you can adequately justify the dairy industry over the soya milk industry based on the degree of suffering then I'd be interested to hear it.
I embarked on my economic choices during the ethiopian famine back in 85. As I read up on the way in which humans waste so many natural resources to produce one set of foods I decided maybe I could do my small part to reduce my consumption. Meat & dairy went our of my diet and I feel much better for it.
I hope I help the ecosystem by leaving more water in it than if I lived on milk and beef.
My comments here are often trite and inflammatory and usually as a knee-jerk to some pro-hunting posts.
I can see that you may have studied this subject and it's a shame you don't draw similar conclusions.
MI5 employed convicted IRA terrorists build the building for them.
.oO0Oo.
They had to blow up some of the walls to make sure the builders didn't leave them any presents.
as usual substituting parters for www in the url works just fine :
c ircuits/articles/27sims.html
.oO0Oo.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/tech/00/04/
yeah , it's a crock innit
... details of how it works ... and then the dull this could mean that in 10 years time we'll all be wearing anti-gravity shoes or something"
.oO0Oo.
I was reading New Scientist yesterday and one third of the two page article was mere speculation on some unlkely scenario. You know like "new storage media found
makes me barf
from the 11th floor on to the roof of the TV lounge while James Bond was on.
.oO0Oo.
Went through the roff and nearly killed some people.
That was a very stupid idea - glad we never got caught!
how does eating battery hens help the eco-system?
.oO0Oo.
how does clearing the rainforest to produce beef help the eco-system?
how does killing most of the whales help the eco-system?
how does drinking cow's milk help the eco-system?
there's vitually no wild eco-system left in my country.
.oO0Oo.
the production of dairy cattle is hardly natural
you might like to learn something too
Come one, give one logical argument that isn't based on emotion that shows that plants are better to eat than animals.
.oO0Oo.
give me one reason why I shouldn't kill you that's based on logic rather than emotion.
I'm proud of my emotions.
many plants rely on being eaten to thrive
once upon a time killing black people wasn't murder
.oO0Oo.
want to wind back the clock?
There is nothing wrong with responsible hunting. Of course, that's strictly an opinion (backed by scientific fact).
.oO0Oo.
wtf are you on about!
Nothing wrong -> er, it's murder
Responsible hunting -> oxymoron
scientific fact -> you trippin
murderous desire to kill things with weapons -> get over them.
You are sentient.
You can rise above it.
Students or deer - what's the difference?
So, are you a violent video gamer that eats Tofu and uses Ecstasy recreationally?
.oO0Oo.
Shit, I am.
What with that and the Chronic by the time I'm forty I won't be able to remember anything!
This memory thing is all bullshit anyway IMHO. What it really is is a shift in focus.
It's all FUD to keep you going to work and contributing to the GDP.
Fuck 'em all.
Do your own thing.
A bolt to the brain causes cows more memory loss than I'll have until the day I forget to look before I leap.
bah,
:-?
.oO0Oo.
I'd better throw my maths A level away then.
Does this strengthen my assertion that algorithms for everything are impossible or weaken it
I still know I'm right though.
If you actually think of it mathmetically everything has the ability to be broken down into steps (algorithms) and then assembled (programs).
.oO0Oo.
If you ACTUALLY think about it then your assertion is false.
Maths is based on assumptions (axioms) which can't be broken down.
As your brain specialises (maybe) on pattern matching then everything becomes a pattern and algorithm.
All you describe is a Turing machine which is good for solving a subset of the available problems.
http://partners.nytimes.com/library/financial/colu mns/042000econ-scene.html
.oO0Oo.
or for the trustin g
With iD opening up the source to Quake 1 it introduced an interesting conundrum - you can re-write the client to cheat.
.oO0Oo.
Many people have proposed solutions including checksumming the client etc. but there always seems to be an arms race type scenario to defeat such schemes.
Security through obscurity isn't exactly perfect but it seems to be a better solution than making the software Free. iD were going to sue somebody that made a derived closed client from GPL'd code.
Have you put any thought time into this because plenty of great minds have failed to solve it. How about yours?
is my fave
.oO0Oo.
My slice on this one is that technology has reduced massively the amount of time spent doing work.
.oO0Oo.
Unfortunately instead of distributing this "leisure time" evenly amongst the population it has tended to polarise.
In heavily technology focussed countries ( I take the UK as my example) the manufacturing base and agriculture that employed most people has reduced the number of employees. Thus saving humanity loads of time - that of the manual workers laid off. Unfortunately those that manage the technology now have more work to do. So instead of providing more "leisure time" for all it has oversaturated in some people at the cost of others.
Humanity needs to reconsider this distribution of time. In monetary terms the poor are getting poorer and the rich are getting richer but time seems to distribute in the opposite direction for the many.
We need to re-distribute the workload not the wealth!