You can say that again: scaremongering by scandal sheets.
The danger posed by benzene and/or its salts in drinks is nothing compared to the damaged proteins, dioxins, carbon monoxide products, carmelized sugars, benzene with its polycyclic aromatic buddies, and other scary monsters in barbecue, the most delicious of all foods.
OMFG: did you know tomato is related to nightshade? We're doomed!
You'd think a free market idealogue would be against copyrights.
Only an idiot would think that.
Only a three-time champion of idiots would write that.
"Free market" does not mean "shoplifting."
A market necessarily means there are things to sell.
Without copyrights, there is no way to sell creative work.
Imagine you are capable of creativity, and write a book on Proudhon. Without copyrights, your work is immediately public domain. Then why should anyone pay you for your work?
I am only defending the idea of copyrights, and in American law the copyrights as originally specified. Those that would mess with copyright terms would do well to remember that the people who wrote them were themselves authors.
You seem to totally miss the simple fact that art has existed far longer than copyright. Care to explain that?
And ranching was around before barbed wire.
Copyright is the barbed wire we now use to help keep herds sorted out.
Cattle have a natural urge to wander, like "information wants to be copied."
Bobwahr and copyright help control these forces.
(I'm not implying that the AC you're replying to has any point whatsoever, nor the idiot to which the AC was replying, but your post asked for an explanation and I happened to have one.)
If the universe is governed by immutable laws/forces then there is nothing truly random that occurs and no room for "choice" as conceived of by any kind of "free will" concept.
Unless of course there is random-ness in the Laws of Nature - God throwing dice and all that.
I like to think the Pudgalavadins had the right answer.
The consensus is that this is a failed mission (as the world warned the US it would be) and they have to live with that.
Reality is not subject to consensus.
I am sure more than one philosopher has written about this at length. Doxa vs. episteme etc.
Anyone who thinks the Game (I call it "The Second Great Game" to put its proper historical perspective) is over when we have Persia in a pincer between Bactria and Babylonia, what a lightweight twit to be so blown about by public opinion, so ignorant of history... well I am hoping that reality is far more textured and profound than any consensus!
Consensus is doxa, hearsay, trivia, rumor, crap. Even legend and outright myth have more truth than does public opinion.
If we do lose this, well I am sure more than one good author has written at length about that scenario, that desire of public opinion that fart of a million asses:
Saying that the military is being objective and the media is the propoganda.. that seems to go a bit beyond objectivity.
It is about seriousness, which fosters honesty.
Soldiers are serious.
Media are a joke.
Really -- think about the reportage of technical stories. Can you read a newspaper story about IBM's Cell without cringing at the gross oversimplifications and outright distortions? Reporters are morons, and worse, they lie. Doubt me? Get interviewed!
I have a simple rule about reports from the fronts: if it ain't.mil, it's bullshit.
At least the military knows what they're talking about, without which objectivity is impossible. Lacking knowledge, the media cannot be objective, and can do nothing but reprint their favorite propaganda from the 20th century.
The media broadcasts more propaganda than the American military is capable of producing. In the military, it would take three sheets of paperwork for every sheet of propaganda. The media is under no such obligation to document their "work," they can just make shit up when they feel like it and down to the presses it goes.
The American military is more objective than the media, and less propagandist.
The original was better anyway, seeing as it was fun and campy.
It was a product of the best TV powerhouse ever, the 70s-80s-era Universal Television.
Rockford Files Baa Baa Black Sheep Magnum, P.I. The A-Team Quantum Leap (D.S. is not a Cylon)
What most "geeks" (twits as superficial as any prom queen) complain about the original series is the repeated effects shots.
When you realize that the original BSG was done right after Universal's Bellisario had stretched 45 seconds of WWII stock footage into the entire Pacific theater, the repeated shots make sense.
Context matters.
I urge those with an aversion to cheesy effects, to just ignore the effects in the original series and concentrate on the stories. Larson and Bellisario can write good 70s TV.
Context matters.
The new series has approached the depth of the original, especially with the Dylan song recalling the Apollo signals in DPB's original "The Hand of God."
The new series has done better than the original with the Pegasus and crazy battlestar tricks: Michelle Forbes did a great job playing Lloyd Bridges, and "Prepare for turbulence" respectively.
But the new series has not met the grandeur of the original's "War of the Gods." Patrick Macnee and John Colicos really brought the goosebumps in those two eps!
I suspect this is targeted at the illiterates of the world. Those whose literacy is enough for stop signs and newspapers but inadequate for a page of text. About 90% of adults, IOW.
Those of us who can read, know how to use the "extra" information. It is anything but a distraction.
Our brains use the information from the next line to begin decoding it and inform the decoding of the current line: prefetch.
We use the information (remembered and newly acquired) from the last line to help decode the current line correctly: error checking.
All this goes to show that the Department of Education truly sucks and should be shut down.
Men used to name their ships and grow attached them as well. They didnt need to give them rights.
Simple rule: to have rights, an entity must be capable of respecting those rights in other entities.
Everything else is gravy. We may pass laws to protect animals as a special category of property, but animals cannot have rights.
(Obviously, I mean "animal" as in "not human." But this is Slashdot, and without this explanation, there would be a hundred "corrections" pointing out that humans are animals. Which would lead me to have to teach them why dictionaries list many meanings and shades of meanings. I'd have to quote "Stairway to Heaven." No Stairway!)
Also note that "capability" does not mean "actuality." Young children can be taught, their actual progress toward respecting rights is irrelevant to the fact that they should have rights.
I have known mentally retarded people who had a clearer understanding of rights than many people with perfectly good brains. Humans have an inherent capability to understand rights, regardless of the condition of their hardware.
Even people who think that animals can have rights, have rights. There is a slight chance they can be corrected.
Machines currently do not have the capability to recognize rights. When they do, those that do will have rights.
It is easy for the human mind to notice "personality" in objects though, it's in out nature to see these things.
I understand robots may be more humanoid, but if they start getting rights, I'm moving in with Streisand. Wait, that last part isn;t right.
You mean you would move in with MechaStreisand. The cure for that is The Cure.
The GP links to Lew Rockwell, which means he is no Libertarian.
Perhaps if you had better national helath care, you'd have fewer working poor, who can't afford health care, but make too much for subsidy, and get caught in the nightmare treadmill of constant debt because of a trip to the hospital.
And while the sanity of the GP is in question, he did address this issue, "making costs go up (by providing tax relief for corporations and not individuals)."
To get health insurance you must be a full-time employee of a corporation because of the invisible foot of government stupidity:
1) Companies are given tax breaks if they set up insurance for their employees. This forged the link between employment and health insurance.
2) Insurance companies will only work with companies and not individuals.
3) So the part-time working poor cannot get health insurance.
Why did #1 happen? I suspect it was a typically stupid "soak the rich" idea to have all these evil companies "give" their employees health insurance.
Which lowers wages and makes the poor uninsurable.
Yes, there are white people in the caucus mountains, but there's no evidence to believe that white skin developed there, over and above any other place in Europe.
It does, however, explain Herodotus's "the Colchians [Georgians] are manifestly Egyptian." The dark-skinned woolly-haired (translator's pre-Imus words) people he reported would be the relict population which didn't bleach out.
That the Caucasus are perhaps the most linguistically interesting place on the whole Earth also adds a least a little credibility to Blumenbach's wild guess.
The Caucasus were next to the "Ukrainian" glacial maximum refuge, where folks got funneled together as the ice grew, folks whose diets (and thus vitamin D intake) were changing rapidly as the world cooled and all the animals too got funneled together.
Now, I don't think I completely believe all "Caucasians" are descendants of Caucasians. Almost any high latitude low insolation area would do. Perhaps people were dark and eating D-laden fish from Lake Fessenden (boringly called by boring scholars the "West Siberian Glacial Lake") and its Turgay-Aral-Caspian-Euxine-Mediterranean outflow path. Then the glacier dams broke, the Ob Yenisei Lena rivers could drain into the Arctic Ocean, the fish died and people had to bleach out to get vitamin D.
Which would make "white people" the #1 most famous people from Kazakhstan!
Also, I am fascinated by the role the Urals could have played, because that range is also linguistically interesting seeming to be the nucleation site of the Finno-Ugrian languages.
The most intriguing theory regarding the Finno-Ugrians is that they are Dravidian people who moved north and bleached out. AFAIK there is only a handful of experts taking care of this pet theory. I like it because it would make the Finns a branch of the Dravids, that's right folks, they would be Branch Dravidians!
Strangely enough, from my non-expert reading of experts' stuff, it seems that white people did not originate in Europe. That the original populations of Europe were coastal and riverine fish-eaters who could remain dark despite lower insolation. Indeed, the theory of Europeans originating in Europe, the "Paleolithic Continuity Theory," is nowadays relegated to "alternative" status.
(I apologize for any conflations, simplifications, and confusions. This is just a hobby of mine. Readers are advised to do their own research.)
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The danger posed by benzene and/or its salts in drinks is nothing compared to the damaged proteins, dioxins, carbon monoxide products, carmelized sugars, benzene with its polycyclic aromatic buddies, and other scary monsters in barbecue, the most delicious of all foods.
OMFG: did you know tomato is related to nightshade? We're doomed!
People are leaving off the B.C.(E.).
Only a three-time champion of idiots would write that.
"Free market" does not mean "shoplifting."
A market necessarily means there are things to sell.
Without copyrights, there is no way to sell creative work.
Imagine you are capable of creativity, and write a book on Proudhon. Without copyrights, your work is immediately public domain. Then why should anyone pay you for your work?
I am only defending the idea of copyrights, and in American law the copyrights as originally specified. Those that would mess with copyright terms would do well to remember that the people who wrote them were themselves authors.
Okay, I'm not literally laughing out loud, but think for a second....
Is it low-density suburbs or huge megalopoli like Mexico City and Mumbai?
Yeah, right, it's Wal-Mart and Starbuck's and all of those people who moved there after you did.
Sprawl.
You ain't seen the true meaning of sprawl until you've seen some place like Mexico City.
Not laughing out loud, but shaking my head in disbelief at how foolishly optimistic Barnum was.
What will you trade the farmers for their food? Those green pieces of paper?
http://www.bbhq.com/gorequiz.htm
Tariq Aziz aka "Baghdad Bob."
(I would look in Lebanon for more but they seem to have a clue these last few days. Go Phoenicians!)
Copyright is the barbed wire we now use to help keep herds sorted out.
Cattle have a natural urge to wander, like "information wants to be copied."
Bobwahr and copyright help control these forces.
(I'm not implying that the AC you're replying to has any point whatsoever, nor the idiot to which the AC was replying, but your post asked for an explanation and I happened to have one.)
The far left executed a decapitation strike on the moderate left.
It worked. The far left is in control of the Democrat party.
I like to think the Pudgalavadins had the right answer.
I was working on a Larry King joke but yours is better.
I am sure more than one philosopher has written about this at length. Doxa vs. episteme etc.
Anyone who thinks the Game (I call it "The Second Great Game" to put its proper historical perspective) is over when we have Persia in a pincer between Bactria and Babylonia, what a lightweight twit to be so blown about by public opinion, so ignorant of history... well I am hoping that reality is far more textured and profound than any consensus!
Consensus is doxa, hearsay, trivia, rumor, crap. Even legend and outright myth have more truth than does public opinion.
If we do lose this, well I am sure more than one good author has written at length about that scenario, that desire of public opinion that fart of a million asses:
Dan Simmons
Orson Scott Card
Soldiers are serious.
Media are a joke.
Really -- think about the reportage of technical stories. Can you read a newspaper story about IBM's Cell without cringing at the gross oversimplifications and outright distortions? Reporters are morons, and worse, they lie. Doubt me? Get interviewed!
I have a simple rule about reports from the fronts: if it ain't
At least the military knows what they're talking about, without which objectivity is impossible. Lacking knowledge, the media cannot be objective, and can do nothing but reprint their favorite propaganda from the 20th century.
The media broadcasts more propaganda than the American military is capable of producing. In the military, it would take three sheets of paperwork for every sheet of propaganda. The media is under no such obligation to document their "work," they can just make shit up when they feel like it and down to the presses it goes.
The American military is more objective than the media, and less propagandist.
Rockford Files
Baa Baa Black Sheep
Magnum, P.I.
The A-Team
Quantum Leap (D.S. is not a Cylon)
What most "geeks" (twits as superficial as any prom queen) complain about the original series is the repeated effects shots.
When you realize that the original BSG was done right after Universal's Bellisario had stretched 45 seconds of WWII stock footage into the entire Pacific theater, the repeated shots make sense.
Context matters.
I urge those with an aversion to cheesy effects, to just ignore the effects in the original series and concentrate on the stories. Larson and Bellisario can write good 70s TV.
Context matters.
The new series has approached the depth of the original, especially with the Dylan song recalling the Apollo signals in DPB's original "The Hand of God."
The new series has done better than the original with the Pegasus and crazy battlestar tricks: Michelle Forbes did a great job playing Lloyd Bridges, and "Prepare for turbulence" respectively.
But the new series has not met the grandeur of the original's "War of the Gods." Patrick Macnee and John Colicos really brought the goosebumps in those two eps!
Context matters.
You are aware that pointing Hubble at Earth and opening the hatch will wreck the thing?
Sorry to ruin your conspiracy theory with a fact.
No I'm not sorry.
I suspect this is targeted at the illiterates of the world. Those whose literacy is enough for stop signs and newspapers but inadequate for a page of text. About 90% of adults, IOW.
Those of us who can read, know how to use the "extra" information. It is anything but a distraction.
Our brains use the information from the next line to begin decoding it and inform the decoding of the current line: prefetch.
We use the information (remembered and newly acquired) from the last line to help decode the current line correctly: error checking.
All this goes to show that the Department of Education truly sucks and should be shut down.
There used to be an adage in journalism (there used to be journalism), "follow the money."
Where does money spent in political campaigns go? Why do campaigns cost so damn much? Where is all of that money going?
Here's one hint: they have a vested interest in only talking about campaign donors, and to never name who gets that money.
They pull this sh!t because it works. You yourself have fallen for it. "No private donation."
The people making the campaigns longer and more expensive, are exactly those people who should be following the money and reporting where it goes.
Fat fracking chance of that. There used to be journalism.
Everything else is gravy. We may pass laws to protect animals as a special category of property, but animals cannot have rights.
(Obviously, I mean "animal" as in "not human." But this is Slashdot, and without this explanation, there would be a hundred "corrections" pointing out that humans are animals. Which would lead me to have to teach them why dictionaries list many meanings and shades of meanings. I'd have to quote "Stairway to Heaven." No Stairway!)
Also note that "capability" does not mean "actuality." Young children can be taught, their actual progress toward respecting rights is irrelevant to the fact that they should have rights.
I have known mentally retarded people who had a clearer understanding of rights than many people with perfectly good brains. Humans have an inherent capability to understand rights, regardless of the condition of their hardware.
Even people who think that animals can have rights, have rights. There is a slight chance they can be corrected.
Machines currently do not have the capability to recognize rights. When they do, those that do will have rights.You mean you would move in with MechaStreisand. The cure for that is The Cure.
Also, on what points do you think which French were right?
(Love the France that gave birth to Lavoisier, hate the France that killed him.)
I thought segolene was an anti-knock additive.
To get health insurance you must be a full-time employee of a corporation because of the invisible foot of government stupidity:
1) Companies are given tax breaks if they set up insurance for their employees. This forged the link between employment and health insurance.
2) Insurance companies will only work with companies and not individuals.
3) So the part-time working poor cannot get health insurance.
Why did #1 happen? I suspect it was a typically stupid "soak the rich" idea to have all these evil companies "give" their employees health insurance.
Which lowers wages and makes the poor uninsurable.
But it sure does get out the vote for the Left!
Also today, Steve Jobs has apologized to the Reverend Al Sharpton for his insensitive comments regarding beige back in the 90s.
What is an "obama?"
Is "obama" animal, vegetable, mineral, or some combination?
Can you spread "obama" on toast?
Does "obama" need 120V or 240V?
Would you use an "obama" to hold open a grand piano's lid?
Does "obama" bounce?
If you step in "obama" would you be mad or glad?
Does "obama" go good with scotch?
What does "obama" smell like? Flowers? Pregnant moose urine?
What is the melting point of "obama?" Specific gravity?
Can an "obama" keep carpet from curling?
Would an "obama" look better in the corner or middle of the wall?
Can you use "obama" to get gum out of your hair?
That the Caucasus are perhaps the most linguistically interesting place on the whole Earth also adds a least a little credibility to Blumenbach's wild guess.
The Caucasus were next to the "Ukrainian" glacial maximum refuge, where folks got funneled together as the ice grew, folks whose diets (and thus vitamin D intake) were changing rapidly as the world cooled and all the animals too got funneled together.
Now, I don't think I completely believe all "Caucasians" are descendants of Caucasians. Almost any high latitude low insolation area would do. Perhaps people were dark and eating D-laden fish from Lake Fessenden (boringly called by boring scholars the "West Siberian Glacial Lake") and its Turgay-Aral-Caspian-Euxine-Mediterranean outflow path. Then the glacier dams broke, the Ob Yenisei Lena rivers could drain into the Arctic Ocean, the fish died and people had to bleach out to get vitamin D.
Which would make "white people" the #1 most famous people from Kazakhstan!
Also, I am fascinated by the role the Urals could have played, because that range is also linguistically interesting seeming to be the nucleation site of the Finno-Ugrian languages.
The most intriguing theory regarding the Finno-Ugrians is that they are Dravidian people who moved north and bleached out. AFAIK there is only a handful of experts taking care of this pet theory. I like it because it would make the Finns a branch of the Dravids, that's right folks, they would be Branch Dravidians!
Strangely enough, from my non-expert reading of experts' stuff, it seems that white people did not originate in Europe. That the original populations of Europe were coastal and riverine fish-eaters who could remain dark despite lower insolation. Indeed, the theory of Europeans originating in Europe, the "Paleolithic Continuity Theory," is nowadays relegated to "alternative" status.
(I apologize for any conflations, simplifications, and confusions. This is just a hobby of mine. Readers are advised to do their own research.)