Well, it is a more concentrated form of protein, which leaves you more time from gathering roots and berries, to like, build stuff, like pyramids, dams, hospitals , a civilization and the like.
My girlfriend had a veggie book, that claimed that eating meat was against human instinct; "who would ever think of eating a nice, cuddly squirrel?"
I countered with a quote from Benjamin Franklin, "hunger never saw bad bread'.
Veggieism is an ethical, rather than a physiological evolution. If you decide to be a veggie, make sure that you take many vitamin supplements. Otherwise, you will devolve what your hairy assed ancestors discovered . . . eating meat is good for you, and efficient.
A while back, some folks in France recommended that vacationers should drive after midnight to avoid the August vacation traffic crunch. The result? Tons of folks drove at 03:00 on toll roads . . . however, only one toll booth was open, as usual, for nights. So there were major traffic jams for hours.
So I ask you, Professor John Nash, what should I do out of a Game Theory analysis? If everyone is told, to drive at a certain time, is it better for me, if drive at that time? Prisoners' Dilemma, on the roads.
The economist John Maynard Keynes was once asked, if he thought that the stock market would go up or down. He answered: "It's not important what I think. I invest on what I think, what the most people think."
Larry Ellison is an avid sailor and seems to have plenty of money. He'd dump a lot of junk from the ship, and then charge folks a fee for just looking at the ship. A Premium fee will allow folks to actually board the ship. Steering the ship, is right out: Larry is always at the helm.
How can an aircraft carrier not win the America's Cup race?
First mate: "Um, Captain, that Norwegian catamaran is getting ahead of us."
Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2012, has said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be hunted down in the way armed forces are targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
But luckily, Julian Assange watched her reality show, and decided to keep his hairy ass out of Alaska . . .
Hell, I can't really remember . . . are the tactical shotguns for shooting bears or salmon . . . I guess it don't matter . . .
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. . . Sarah Palin : "I'm against any legislation from a legislator whose name I can't pronounce. And you, North Korea, and South Korea get your names sorted out, and stop confusing us! Oh, and I am also looking at you, Dakotas!"
"Wait, Carolina, too? And why would someone find West Virgina, like kinda west of Virginia? I'll get back to you on this."
At least Sarah Palin can pride herself with not having any dirt flung at her from all those WikiLeaks.
Apple needs livers! Soylent iPhones are made of human livers!
I finally bought my girlfriend an iPhone 4, because I could buy it officially unlocked. It did annoy me that I had to install iTunes to get it activated, though.
On the positive side it is a very impressive chunk of technology, and it is fun to play with. Both of us are left handed, and we have not experienced any problems with dropped calls, which are apparently more common with left handers.
Although I am not an Apple fanboy, I can understand how the Apple Inquisition's three main weapons, are: fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Jobs . . . their *four*...no... *Amongst* their weapons . . .
IPv5 was the experimental ST2 protocol ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1819.html ). It was sort of a connection oriented IP designed for multimedia stuff. Nobody seemed to want that either. RSVP was a protocol designed to reserve bandwidth on the Internet, but ran on good old IPv4. That tanked as well.
The European Telecom research agency, ETSI, is working on yet another attempt to provide resource reservation through the Internet for VOIP. We'll see how that one goes.
Imagine armies of folks emerging from the New York subways, all dressed up in Steve Jobs black turtlenecks and glasses. Even children, as well! They all head toward the NYC Apple Store. Half the onlookers are shocked, the other half laugh their asses off.
Is a telephone provider responsible for drug dealers, pimps and other assorted crooks, who run their business over the providers' telephone lines?
The telephone provider runs a line to your house. What takes place on the other side of the line, inside your house, they have no control over. The same is true for an ISP. They provide an Internet connection to your home. What you hook up to it, is your responsibility . . . and liability.
So when is the civilian version of this coming out? It seems that this weapon would be most effective at getting those damn kids off my lawn. Oh, but remember to shout, "Get off my lawn!" first, before shooting. It's more sporting to get them on the fly.
One of my first managers was joking with us, and stated, "Only here, does some little guy like me have the opportunity to run a 10 million Deutsche Mark project aground!"
How do the SAP folks responsible feel about causing $1.3 billion in damages? Has anyone's head rolled for this?
I could only dream of being able to do this, "Oh, hi, boss . . . there's a little small matter that we need to talk about. I made a tiny boo boo, and it is going to cost the company $1.3 billion."
I know you're being facetious to underline your point
Well, it's nice to see that someone noticed that.
but the best intel we've ever gotten has been from when we treated prisoners and 'persons of interest' professionally and did nothing more than talk with them. [Citation needed] but it's not that hard to find. Look up how we got information from German officers during the Second World War.
There is a documentary about The Ritchie Boys ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Boys ). They were Jewish Germans who were in the intelligence branch of the US army, who served as translators and interrogators.
One of their "shticks" was to dress one up as an American officer, and the other as a Russian Officer. The American one would start the interrogation with the German officer. Then when the German officer refused to answer questions, the "Russian" one would burst into the room, and demand to have the prisoner. The American would chase the Russian out, and told the prisoner, "look, if you don't cooperate, I will have to give you over to the Russian.
It's the classic good cop / bad cop routine, but was highly effective. And it used no physical force.
My doctor has a friend who is a psychiatrist, and discussed with me once the effectiveness of "Sleep Deprivation." The psychiatrist said that when you deprive people of sleep, their mind starts going crazy: the person is awake, but is actually dreaming. They'll tell you all kinds of nonsense, and start telling the interrogator anything he wants to hear.
A lot of intelligence in World War II was gathered by simply bugging the prisoners' quarters. When they thought that nobody was listening, they divulged vital information. One specific case was the German navigation beam "Knickebein" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickebein ). Secret recordings of German POW pilots led the British intelligence to discover that their bombing aid was hidden in a radio in the bombers, which was much more sensitive than it had to be.
Conclusion? Try to use your brain, instead of brute force.
Or Purple Nurples (aka Titty Twisters)? How about Indian Burns? Or Swirlies, which are sort of a waterboarding-light?
Oh, maybe we can just moon them until they confess. Or how about "kick me" signs taped to their backs.
That would lead those terrorists to conclude, "We thought Americans were the Great Satans. Now their behavior leads us to believe that they are just out of their tiny little minds."
"Oh, yeah Achmed? Prepare yourself for a Wet Willie!
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If scientists can breed humans with mice, creating mice-men, this idea has potential. I think Monty Python even did a skit on this, where perverts dressed up as mice, and went to parties, where they "squeaked" and passed cheese around.
Definitely an idea that is worthy of a Hollywood B film.
If the mice bread experiments go wrong, we can always pop them into the toaster.
I read a book titled "Mortal Questions", by a philosophy professor named Thomas Nagel. In one of the chapters, he argued part of living is also dying. So to die is to "complete the totality of your existence."
In my own experience, my father was old and sick, and he realized that it was time for him to go. Of course, my sister and I didn't want to accept it, but now when we talk about it, we realize how courageous and humble he was.
When the father of my mother-in-law died, my father-in-law said that it was probably a good thing, because he was old and suffering. He lost a foot in World War II, which caused medical complications throughout his life. My mother-in-law threw a tantrum, and screamed "No one wants to die!"
It's a difficult question, to ask folks if they accept death. Some would answer, When you gotta go, you gotta go!" Others do want to live forever.
I was always impressed when I visited the homes of people from Vietnam. They had a little corner in the room with pictures of ancestors that had died, with incense sticks around.
After our father died, my sister put a lot of work into scanning old slides taken by my father, with his beloved Leica, and burning them on a CD for his grandchildren. If the memory of you is passed on through generations, you do live forever.
If you were a spy, living illegally in a foreign country.
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I think I remember that in one of the Captain Kirk Star Treks, that the computer got repaired, and refitted with a sultry female voice. He was annoyed, and got it fixed back to the non-emotional female robot voice.
Your choice: listen to the sexy computer, or go off to fight the Klingons.. . ?
"Under the current program, we estimate that each Irish family of four will be liable for 200,000 euros in public debt by 2015."
Ouch.
The economist John Maynard Keynes said something like, "If I owe the bank 200 pounds, I have a problem. If I owe the bank 200,000 pounds, the bank has a problem."
In the case of Ireland, it seems that the banks seemed to have transformed their private debt, into public debt, to be paid for by their citizens.
I watched a German documentary this morning about how the Euro was bad (German is not my mother tongue, but I am fluent and could understand everything). Some of the stuff in that was political dynamite: I don't think that politicians in Europe understand the powder keg that they are sitting on.
From the The Economist article,
The most concerned onlooker is Germany, which sees its credit lying behind the entire euro area. As ever, Europe’s biggest tabloid, Bild, captured the mood this week, asking “First the Greeks, then the Irish, thenwill we end up having to pay for everyone in Europe?
Oh, let's piss off the Germans . ..grand idea . . . in Europe, that always ends in tears.
How much of the rest of the "news"? What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.
Didn't some newspaper editor once say, "If a dog bites a man, that is not news. If a man bites a dog, that is news. If a man doesn't bite a dog . . . invent a story which says he did."
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Well, it is a more concentrated form of protein, which leaves you more time from gathering roots and berries, to like, build stuff, like pyramids, dams, hospitals , a civilization and the like.
This guy had a good take at it all: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Bronowski
My girlfriend had a veggie book, that claimed that eating meat was against human instinct; "who would ever think of eating a nice, cuddly squirrel?"
I countered with a quote from Benjamin Franklin, "hunger never saw bad bread'.
Veggieism is an ethical, rather than a physiological evolution. If you decide to be a veggie, make sure that you take many vitamin supplements. Otherwise, you will devolve what your hairy assed ancestors discovered . . . eating meat is good for you, and efficient.
A while back, some folks in France recommended that vacationers should drive after midnight to avoid the August vacation traffic crunch. The result? Tons of folks drove at 03:00 on toll roads . . . however, only one toll booth was open, as usual, for nights. So there were major traffic jams for hours.
So I ask you, Professor John Nash, what should I do out of a Game Theory analysis? If everyone is told, to drive at a certain time, is it better for me, if drive at that time? Prisoners' Dilemma, on the roads.
The economist John Maynard Keynes was once asked, if he thought that the stock market would go up or down. He answered: "It's not important what I think. I invest on what I think, what the most people think."
Larry Ellison is an avid sailor and seems to have plenty of money. He'd dump a lot of junk from the ship, and then charge folks a fee for just looking at the ship. A Premium fee will allow folks to actually board the ship. Steering the ship, is right out: Larry is always at the helm.
How can an aircraft carrier not win the America's Cup race?
First mate: "Um, Captain, that Norwegian catamaran is getting ahead of us."
Captain: "Launch an assault team. Fire at will."
Ah, Starry Night
( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starry_night )
I only had two . . .
Ha! All cinnamon processes are puny in comparison to my "Incense and Peppermints" process!
From my patent application:
Good sense, innocence, cripplin' and kind.
Dead kings, many things I can't define.
Oh Cajun spice, sweats and blushers your mind.
Incense and peppermints, the color of thyme.
This patent will be more important than the Segway!
Sarah Palin, who is widely tipped as a possible Republican candidate for president in 2012, has said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange should be hunted down in the way armed forces are targeting the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.
But luckily, Julian Assange watched her reality show, and decided to keep his hairy ass out of Alaska . . .
Hell, I can't really remember . . . are the tactical shotguns for shooting bears or salmon . . . I guess it don't matter . . .
FCC chairman Julius Genachowski. . . Sarah Palin : "I'm against any legislation from a legislator whose name I can't pronounce. And you, North Korea, and South Korea get your names sorted out, and stop confusing us! Oh, and I am also looking at you, Dakotas!"
"Wait, Carolina, too? And why would someone find West Virgina, like kinda west of Virginia? I'll get back to you on this."
At least Sarah Palin can pride herself with not having any dirt flung at her from all those WikiLeaks.
Are the bits named Win, Place, and Show?
No, they are named, Moe, Larry, and Curly.
"Oh, a wise bit, eh?"
"Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk!"
I'm surprised they didn't require blood.
Apple needs livers! Soylent iPhones are made of human livers!
I finally bought my girlfriend an iPhone 4, because I could buy it officially unlocked. It did annoy me that I had to install iTunes to get it activated, though.
On the positive side it is a very impressive chunk of technology, and it is fun to play with. Both of us are left handed, and we have not experienced any problems with dropped calls, which are apparently more common with left handers.
Although I am not an Apple fanboy, I can understand how the Apple Inquisition's three main weapons, are: fear, surprise and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Jobs . . . their *four*...no... *Amongst* their weapons . . .
IPv5 was the experimental ST2 protocol ( http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1819.html ). It was sort of a connection oriented IP designed for multimedia stuff. Nobody seemed to want that either. RSVP was a protocol designed to reserve bandwidth on the Internet, but ran on good old IPv4. That tanked as well.
The European Telecom research agency, ETSI, is working on yet another attempt to provide resource reservation through the Internet for VOIP. We'll see how that one goes.
Steve Jobs look-alike day!
http://improveverywhere.com/
Imagine armies of folks emerging from the New York subways, all dressed up in Steve Jobs black turtlenecks and glasses. Even children, as well! They all head toward the NYC Apple Store. Half the onlookers are shocked, the other half laugh their asses off.
Is a telephone provider responsible for drug dealers, pimps and other assorted crooks, who run their business over the providers' telephone lines?
The telephone provider runs a line to your house. What takes place on the other side of the line, inside your house, they have no control over. The same is true for an ISP. They provide an Internet connection to your home. What you hook up to it, is your responsibility . . . and liability.
So when is the civilian version of this coming out? It seems that this weapon would be most effective at getting those damn kids off my lawn. Oh, but remember to shout, "Get off my lawn!" first, before shooting. It's more sporting to get them on the fly.
One of my first managers was joking with us, and stated, "Only here, does some little guy like me have the opportunity to run a 10 million Deutsche Mark project aground!"
How do the SAP folks responsible feel about causing $1.3 billion in damages? Has anyone's head rolled for this?
I could only dream of being able to do this, "Oh, hi, boss . . . there's a little small matter that we need to talk about. I made a tiny boo boo, and it is going to cost the company $1.3 billion."
Yo.
as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened.
The someone to OpenOffice, "Use the fork, Luke. Use the fork."
They always go in threes. First LN, now IK. Who's #3?
Are you volunteering? Sorry, dude, my badge says #6.
I know you're being facetious to underline your point
Well, it's nice to see that someone noticed that.
but the best intel we've ever gotten has been from when we treated prisoners and 'persons of interest' professionally and did nothing more than talk with them. [Citation needed] but it's not that hard to find. Look up how we got information from German officers during the Second World War.
There is a documentary about The Ritchie Boys ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritchie_Boys ). They were Jewish Germans who were in the intelligence branch of the US army, who served as translators and interrogators. One of their "shticks" was to dress one up as an American officer, and the other as a Russian Officer. The American one would start the interrogation with the German officer. Then when the German officer refused to answer questions, the "Russian" one would burst into the room, and demand to have the prisoner. The American would chase the Russian out, and told the prisoner, "look, if you don't cooperate, I will have to give you over to the Russian.
It's the classic good cop / bad cop routine, but was highly effective. And it used no physical force.
My doctor has a friend who is a psychiatrist, and discussed with me once the effectiveness of "Sleep Deprivation." The psychiatrist said that when you deprive people of sleep, their mind starts going crazy: the person is awake, but is actually dreaming. They'll tell you all kinds of nonsense, and start telling the interrogator anything he wants to hear.
A lot of intelligence in World War II was gathered by simply bugging the prisoners' quarters. When they thought that nobody was listening, they divulged vital information. One specific case was the German navigation beam "Knickebein" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickebein ). Secret recordings of German POW pilots led the British intelligence to discover that their bombing aid was hidden in a radio in the bombers, which was much more sensitive than it had to be.
Conclusion? Try to use your brain, instead of brute force.
Water-boarding is inhumane and a form of torture.
Or Purple Nurples (aka Titty Twisters)? How about Indian Burns? Or Swirlies, which are sort of a waterboarding-light?
Oh, maybe we can just moon them until they confess. Or how about "kick me" signs taped to their backs.
That would lead those terrorists to conclude, "We thought Americans were the Great Satans. Now their behavior leads us to believe that they are just out of their tiny little minds."
"Oh, yeah Achmed? Prepare yourself for a Wet Willie!
If scientists can breed humans with mice, creating mice-men, this idea has potential. I think Monty Python even did a skit on this, where perverts dressed up as mice, and went to parties, where they "squeaked" and passed cheese around.
Definitely an idea that is worthy of a Hollywood B film.
If the mice bread experiments go wrong, we can always pop them into the toaster.
I read a book titled "Mortal Questions", by a philosophy professor named Thomas Nagel. In one of the chapters, he argued part of living is also dying. So to die is to "complete the totality of your existence."
In my own experience, my father was old and sick, and he realized that it was time for him to go. Of course, my sister and I didn't want to accept it, but now when we talk about it, we realize how courageous and humble he was.
When the father of my mother-in-law died, my father-in-law said that it was probably a good thing, because he was old and suffering. He lost a foot in World War II, which caused medical complications throughout his life. My mother-in-law threw a tantrum, and screamed "No one wants to die!"
It's a difficult question, to ask folks if they accept death. Some would answer, When you gotta go, you gotta go!" Others do want to live forever.
I was always impressed when I visited the homes of people from Vietnam. They had a little corner in the room with pictures of ancestors that had died, with incense sticks around.
After our father died, my sister put a lot of work into scanning old slides taken by my father, with his beloved Leica, and burning them on a CD for his grandchildren. If the memory of you is passed on through generations, you do live forever.
"whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"
I think you've finally solved the mystery of the 'numbers stations'
If you have the right "one time pad" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_time_pad ), listening to a numbers station ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station ) could save your life. "Yo. Bad news, your cover has been blown . . . "
If you were a spy, living illegally in a foreign country.
I think I remember that in one of the Captain Kirk Star Treks, that the computer got repaired, and refitted with a sultry female voice. He was annoyed, and got it fixed back to the non-emotional female robot voice.
Your choice: listen to the sexy computer, or go off to fight the Klingons .. . ?
"Under the current program, we estimate that each Irish family of four will be liable for 200,000 euros in public debt by 2015."
Ouch.
The economist John Maynard Keynes said something like, "If I owe the bank 200 pounds, I have a problem. If I owe the bank 200,000 pounds, the bank has a problem."
In the case of Ireland, it seems that the banks seemed to have transformed their private debt, into public debt, to be paid for by their citizens.
http://www.economist.com/node/17577107
I watched a German documentary this morning about how the Euro was bad (German is not my mother tongue, but I am fluent and could understand everything). Some of the stuff in that was political dynamite: I don't think that politicians in Europe understand the powder keg that they are sitting on.
From the The Economist article,
The most concerned onlooker is Germany, which sees its credit lying behind the entire euro area. As ever, Europe’s biggest tabloid, Bild, captured the mood this week, asking “First the Greeks, then the Irish, thenwill we end up having to pay for everyone in Europe?
Oh, let's piss off the Germans . . .grand idea . . . in Europe, that always ends in tears.
How much of the rest of the "news"? What an incredible racket to have a business that peddles lies every day, without consequences.
Didn't some newspaper editor once say, "If a dog bites a man, that is not news. If a man bites a dog, that is news. If a man doesn't bite a dog . . . invent a story which says he did."