What about all those dreams you can't remember, can they really have that great of an effect on physical response?
Dreams train the neural net.
Just like the dozenth time I practice an Ian Bairnson lick gets forgotten as a specific event, lost among the other dozens of tries, so go most dreams. But the tiny incremental changes accumulate.
You can train yourself to remember more dreams, and to have as much control as desired.
Meditating in a dream is like being a teep in hyperspace.
However, there is a neighborhood association in north Austin that has been trying to block a Wal-Mart from being built near them for close to two years now. What's odd about that effort is that the area Wal-Mart wants to build in is currently occupied by a dilapidated mall that is mostly empty and rarely sees much traffic. It is an Austin-style confluence of old labor union Democrats and even older racist Democrats. They do not want Wal-Mart's "Mexican" employees driving through their lily-white neighborhood. Good G-d, some of them might even move their families there! A Mexican family near Shoal Creek, people will start using words like "posse" and "lynch."
This was explained to me by one of my non-racist state employee Democrat friends. The labor union thing I got, since these people proudly display bumper stickers. But that there would still exist so many unreconstructed Dixie Democrats, a hundred and fifty years after they lost the war, shocked my libertarian brain, so he named names to remind me that I knew these people, too.
Got to love the Democrat party. Always standing up for the little guys, unless they work at Wal-Mart!
If something goes wrong helo a repair crew out and fix it. Because one helo hop costs as much as a full-time crew for a transoceanic trip?
Also, helicopters do not have the range of their lesser, fixed-wing cousins. So the disabled freighter would need to drift within helicopter range of shore facilities.
Freighters are manned because they have to be. People who know more about freight shipping than you and I combined have worked out amazing ways to shave cost and crew.
GP said,
The Govt has ALWAYS maintained the ability to do this for international calls. Then an idiot thought he had a point with,
what part of "mostly domestic" do you not understand? Domestic means here not there, and us not them. The submission said,
According to the article, it was access to the company's most localized communications switches, which primarily carry domestic calls.
The local switches primarily carry domestic calls. They also carry the international calls which were monitored.
You can be sure the asshole(s) [the hardcopy I read was by two] who wrote the story knew the difference and included the irrelevancy about "primarily carry[ing] domestic calls" to rake the muck.
Which is what this whole issue is about. The government monitors international calls, and every story is written as if the government was monitoring domestic calls.
It is damned unfortunate that anybody would fall for such yellow journalism.
Imagine if every story about Sen. Barack Hussein Obama included irrelevencies as,
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, who shares a name with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, whose minister is a racist whackjob...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, who represents the corrupt districts of the Daley dynasty...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, whose last name is almost identical to 'Osama,'...."
... so every story about inspecting data that crosses America's border is written. Bury the word "international," and play up anything that can "link" the story to the reader.
So no shit, local switches carry local traffic. They also carry the local legs of international traffic.
BTW, I do know the telephone systems, "inside and out."
Seriously, why not just do the moon mission, then pick up the landing bags as the ISS on the way home. Better yet, why not have a specialized vehicle just for orbit-to-moon-and-back, and transfer to a special-use re-entry vehicle at the ISS? Because the Moon is not in ISS's orbital inclination. We would have to move the Moon to a more favorable orbit.
Then there were the indirect losses as air travel slumped after 9/11.
A lot of work went into returning the Concorde to airworthiness after the FOD crash, like better-sealing fuel tanks and shred-resistant tires (maybe even spelled "tyres") IIRC.
Just search for "Concorde Refit."
So chalk up one more death on 9/11: supersonic passenger travel.
What does Congress have against funding for exploration of Mars? What's the purpose for that? This congress wants to make sure no Republican President gets credit for it.
Please get your facts straight. That's funny.
About half of the "lovely freedom fighters" are sent home already, and none of them ever got charged with anything. Obviously at least half of them were never "lovely freedom fighters". Whoever they were, they surely aren't THEY beheading innocent people and videotaping them. Please explain how detaining people not connected to those crimes helps fighting the criminals. Here's the fact Club Gitmo bashers need to learn: we do not need to take prisoners.
The only reason Club Gitmo exists is because we are such damn great people.
We could shoot these people in the field. No muss no fuss. These things happen in war. Innocent people die.
Instead, at great expense, we take them to a Caribbean island and duly process them.
We have to go through all this B.S. because the enemy does not wear uniforms. They take pains to look like civilians. And when we make a tiny mistake through excess of caution, by collecting a civilian - that is our fault? We're the big baddies because we took care not to shoot first and ask questions later?
Good to know whose side you're on. I predict that after the next successful terrorist attack on the US mainland, it will be very unhealthy to profess such support for the enemy.
I think you're well on the way to understanding the problems.
However, there is more to this than just superstition. What's really on display is America's horrible public educational system. From its immoral funding through property taxes, to the fact that all kids are held back so that the few who become professional football players can be at maximum mass when they get to the pros, it's intolerable crap.
So biology is taught by people who don't know the subject and may not even be science teachers but athletics coaches. There is absolutely no quality control on teachers, thanks to their national union the "National Education Association." (Kids, if you see that evil little NEA sticker in a classroom, get out. Change to another teacher, drop the class, drop out of school, or run like hell - whatever it takes, get out of that classroom! If all your teachers are NEA, get a library card and use it. Don't kill them, even though it's the right thing to do. If you shoot a teacher, it goes on your permanent record!)
Then the public school victims get to public university where their science classes are taught by Islamic fundamentalist grad students.
The result is that we have generations of "educated" people who don't know the basics of science. "Theory" means "guess," and boy-howdy how 'bout them Longherns?
To be sure, there are some damn good science teachers in public schools - I had two - but most of the kids are so brain-damaged by the NEA these few good teachers can hardly fix it all. Maybe private schools do better, for the families who can afford to pay for both the public and private school systems.
But as for the public school victims, the few who understand science had to teach themselves.
The rest, those with no interest in science, were never required to learn any and had no opportunity to learn any.
That is one of the most ridiculous things that I've ever read on slashdot. The most ridiculous part was the "Score:5, Insightful" because it shows how the leftist mob "thinks."
It's good that things can be both "pathetic" and "ridiculous." It's bullshit on so many orthogonal axes a new kind of math needs to be invented.
the word of the Bible and faith in the Christian God .....
These people are called Neo-Conservatives Oh bullshit. Neoconservativism grew out of Jewish liberals (in the "European" meaning of "liberal") who could no longer go along with the socialism of the Democrat party, so they became "conservatives" (which, in today's American English, means "non-socialist").
Indeed, "neocon" became a euphemism for "Jew" during the 2004 election, so a reporter could sneer about "neocon" influence in the White House, when that reporter would never dare sneer about "Jewish" influence in the White House.
Christian fundamentalists are old-fashioned conservatives. They are the real deal, no "neo" needed.
Why the fuck are we building bigger and better and more expensive bombs These are better, which means they will use the smaller ones. Small enough for counter-terror ops, maybe even the explosive-free kinetic rock bombs. A Bone can get one where it's needed in a hurry. Okay, it can get quite a few where they are needed, without decelerating for each drop. Saves gas. Saves lives. Good thing.
But there were people here before 12kya, learning the "Clovis" point from the French, inventing chewable crack cocaine by themselves (using calcium carbonate), and generally having a good time.
Folks have been here so long it is hard to calibrate their radiocarbon dates.
Genes can be killed off. We have artifacts older than genes. I guess the Old Ones got killed off. Was Kennewick Man (portrayed by Patrick Stewart) an Old One?
Wow Bush et. all could not have done a worse job of responding to asymmetrical warfare. Horseshit. There could be tens of thousands of dead soldiers. That there are only a few thousand shows that President Bush and his administration have run the war nearly perfectly.
Please, people, learn some goddamn history! Back when the population of the world was but a fraction of what it is today, tens of thousands, would die in one day. The war death rate is practically the same as the peace death rate. Even Bill Clinton lost 9000 soldiers on his watch, graphed vs. Iraq.
In any sane historical perspective, President Bush has conducted two almost perfect wars. If a Democrat had (ever!) done as well, he would be lauded as a military genius.
I just can't believe USA people put up with spending 21% of their national budget on the military. Yes, it should be a higher percentage, achieved by getting rid of the unconstitutional spending on individuals' specific welfare - $1.527 *trillion*. Unfortunately, that $1.527 *trillion* buys a lot of votes.
And one good way to make sure that NASA is as well-funded as the military is to roll NASA into the military.
But, since the military is only a small part of the Federal budget, maybe we should roll NASA into the Social Security administration. Then NASA will have more money than the military.
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Run the coal plants with insufficient oxygen and you will get plenty of carbon monoxide.
The problem is that "journalists" are idiots.
What about all those dreams you can't remember, can they really have that great of an effect on physical response?
Dreams train the neural net.
Just like the dozenth time I practice an Ian Bairnson lick gets forgotten as a specific event, lost among the other dozens of tries, so go most dreams. But the tiny incremental changes accumulate.
You can train yourself to remember more dreams, and to have as much control as desired.
Meditating in a dream is like being a teep in hyperspace.
This was explained to me by one of my non-racist state employee Democrat friends. The labor union thing I got, since these people proudly display bumper stickers. But that there would still exist so many unreconstructed Dixie Democrats, a hundred and fifty years after they lost the war, shocked my libertarian brain, so he named names to remind me that I knew these people, too.
Got to love the Democrat party. Always standing up for the little guys, unless they work at Wal-Mart!
Also, helicopters do not have the range of their lesser, fixed-wing cousins. So the disabled freighter would need to drift within helicopter range of shore facilities.
Freighters are manned because they have to be. People who know more about freight shipping than you and I combined have worked out amazing ways to shave cost and crew.
It is Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi
Part of a series. Followed by, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi, and Takinasqatsi.
The "green" solution emits far more CO2 than a coal plant would have to produce that electricity.
The local switches primarily carry domestic calls. They also carry the international calls which were monitored.
You can be sure the asshole(s) [the hardcopy I read was by two] who wrote the story knew the difference and included the irrelevancy about "primarily carry[ing] domestic calls" to rake the muck.
Which is what this whole issue is about. The government monitors international calls, and every story is written as if the government was monitoring domestic calls.
It is damned unfortunate that anybody would fall for such yellow journalism.
Imagine if every story about Sen. Barack Hussein Obama included irrelevencies as,
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, who shares a name with former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, whose minister is a racist whackjob...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, who represents the corrupt districts of the Daley dynasty...."
"Senator Barack Hussein Obama, whose last name is almost identical to 'Osama,'...."
So no shit, local switches carry local traffic. They also carry the local legs of international traffic.
BTW, I do know the telephone systems, "inside and out."
Around 40 of the Concorde's regular passengers (-writes for CBS Marketwatch), and those who could give permission for subordinates to travel by Concorde, were killed on 9/11.
Then there were the indirect losses as air travel slumped after 9/11.
A lot of work went into returning the Concorde to airworthiness after the FOD crash, like better-sealing fuel tanks and shred-resistant tires (maybe even spelled "tyres") IIRC.
Just search for "Concorde Refit."
So chalk up one more death on 9/11: supersonic passenger travel.
Please explain how detaining people not connected to those crimes helps fighting the criminals. Here's the fact Club Gitmo bashers need to learn: we do not need to take prisoners.
The only reason Club Gitmo exists is because we are such damn great people.
We could shoot these people in the field. No muss no fuss. These things happen in war. Innocent people die.
Instead, at great expense, we take them to a Caribbean island and duly process them.
We have to go through all this B.S. because the enemy does not wear uniforms. They take pains to look like civilians. And when we make a tiny mistake through excess of caution, by collecting a civilian - that is our fault? We're the big baddies because we took care not to shoot first and ask questions later?
Good to know whose side you're on. I predict that after the next successful terrorist attack on the US mainland, it will be very unhealthy to profess such support for the enemy.
I think you're well on the way to understanding the problems.
However, there is more to this than just superstition. What's really on display is America's horrible public educational system. From its immoral funding through property taxes, to the fact that all kids are held back so that the few who become professional football players can be at maximum mass when they get to the pros, it's intolerable crap.
So biology is taught by people who don't know the subject and may not even be science teachers but athletics coaches. There is absolutely no quality control on teachers, thanks to their national union the "National Education Association." (Kids, if you see that evil little NEA sticker in a classroom, get out. Change to another teacher, drop the class, drop out of school, or run like hell - whatever it takes, get out of that classroom! If all your teachers are NEA, get a library card and use it. Don't kill them, even though it's the right thing to do. If you shoot a teacher, it goes on your permanent record!)
Then the public school victims get to public university where their science classes are taught by Islamic fundamentalist grad students.
The result is that we have generations of "educated" people who don't know the basics of science. "Theory" means "guess," and boy-howdy how 'bout them Longherns?
To be sure, there are some damn good science teachers in public schools - I had two - but most of the kids are so brain-damaged by the NEA these few good teachers can hardly fix it all. Maybe private schools do better, for the families who can afford to pay for both the public and private school systems.
But as for the public school victims, the few who understand science had to teach themselves.
The rest, those with no interest in science, were never required to learn any and had no opportunity to learn any.
It's good that things can be both "pathetic" and "ridiculous." It's bullshit on so many orthogonal axes a new kind of math needs to be invented.
Indeed, "neocon" became a euphemism for "Jew" during the 2004 election, so a reporter could sneer about "neocon" influence in the White House, when that reporter would never dare sneer about "Jewish" influence in the White House.
Christian fundamentalists are old-fashioned conservatives. They are the real deal, no "neo" needed.
Obviously, Shakespeare was exaggerating. We do not need to kill all the lawyers.
But jailing the EFFluent for the duration of This Long War does seem like a good start.
But there were people here before 12kya, learning the "Clovis" point from the French, inventing chewable crack cocaine by themselves (using calcium carbonate), and generally having a good time.
Folks have been here so long it is hard to calibrate their radiocarbon dates.
Genes can be killed off. We have artifacts older than genes. I guess the Old Ones got killed off. Was Kennewick Man (portrayed by Patrick Stewart) an Old One?
Anyone with specialist knowledge, please comment.
Many unpleasant things are not torture.
The United Nations is unpleasant. Does the UN's existence constitute torture?
Please, people, learn some goddamn history! Back when the population of the world was but a fraction of what it is today, tens of thousands, would die in one day. The war death rate is practically the same as the peace death rate. Even Bill Clinton lost 9000 soldiers on his watch, graphed vs. Iraq.
In any sane historical perspective, President Bush has conducted two almost perfect wars. If a Democrat had (ever!) done as well, he would be lauded as a military genius.
And one good way to make sure that NASA is as well-funded as the military is to roll NASA into the military.
But, since the military is only a small part of the Federal budget, maybe we should roll NASA into the Social Security administration. Then NASA will have more money than the military.
Predictable. Inevitable. Despicable.
Not logical.
What follows that word in your post is, predictably inevitably and despicably, complete bullshit.
Would you want me to get "logical" in the good ol' Qaeda style on your sorry ass?