Which is why I wrote "Seems like a 'man in the moon' phenomenon."
Ahhhh, OK, so the semantics there were not clear to me. This reminds me of when the PE teachers used to say, "don't carry the ball like a loaf of bread" and I had no idea what they were trying to tell me, and I was too embarrassed to ask.
OK, but if I go to the *left* of the moon, I see some dark blue brush strokes, just above the star. See that? It's one of the World Trade towers, the one that had the antenna. You have to turn your head to the right to see that one. It's falling over. The Moon--a symbol of Islam, knocked if over. Plainly Van Gogh foresaw 9/11... NOT!
I can see the WTC because I decided to look for other random crap in the brush strokes. The data set is large, and combined with an imagination and a decent set of procedures (zoom, tilt, etc.) you can conjure up just about anything you like.
I can sort of turn that yellow brush stroke into a dragon... if I really, really, try; but the WTC thing is clearer to me.
Now let's see if we can find something a little less radical. Here's the challenge--find a telephone in the brush strokes. That was what I tried first, but as I panned left the WTC was more obvious.
Once again, it's all just looking at clouds. Some people are going to see stuff that others don't.
OK, did some more googling. Actually I'm a bit surprised at the breakdown with cigarettes coming in at 1%.
There are pie charts like this from various states, and the highest percentage for cigarettes was 5%. Different regions have different characteristis. For example, it's much less likely for lightning to start a fire in Virginia because the vegetation is wetter.
I don't feel like googling the laws; but I bet you can get criminal penalties for a cigarette-caused fire in the US too. It seems like you could certainly get sued into oblivion if they can prove it's your fault.
Try as I might, I see no dragon. Doing a Google image search for "van gogh" dragon and "starry night" turns up zilch. Post an image with an outline of the dragon, please. Is the hole supposed to be the nose or an eye?
I think maybe you're just tripping up over your brain's natural tendency to see patterns. It's like seeing things in clouds.
Here is a brief history right from the source. I was aware that oak savannah (sp.?) in the Bay Area was a Native-created habitat; but wasn't sure how widespread Native burning was. According to some sources; quite wide spread. Of course I'm sure Natives had campfires go out of control sometimes. OTOH, they didn't have strips of asphalt everywhere delivering hot gasoline engines driven by people with little fire-starters at their lips, which they fling from the windows of said gasoline-powered vehicles. You'd think everybody in CA would know better; but I've stomped out my share of burning butts around here. It was on city streets where they wouldn't start a fire; but you know those bad habits get taken right up into the hills, along the byways...
Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand they release CO2, but they also release particulates and *where* those things end up in the atmosphere matters, because that impacts how fast they are reabsorbed and/or break down. Oh, you mean it's not an effect of global warming? Less sure about that.
One thing is certain--we have only been managing the forests for about 100 years. Native Americans didn't have planes dropping retardant and massive crews with chainsaws cutting breaks. The "dark day" that occured over New England in the early 1800s is thought to be from a fire in what is now Canada and/or the northern US.
If wildfires are increasing, my first suspect is the decades of fuel we stored when the states had enough money to put out every spark. Now we don't have the money, but we have all that fuel stored.
Still just a distraction from STOCKINT. Follow the money. The first time I considered such massive surveillance, front-running market events was what came to mind. This is just like anything else in politics. Get people thinking about sex to distract them from the real crimes.
Never. It's an arms race. Your neighbor levers up, so you gotta lever up. Like all arms races, the only winners are the arms dealers. Wait for it... Educational-Industrial complex. You knew that was coming.
Also, they're part of Obama's core constituency. He has to pay lip service to the idea of reducing costs; but his political incentive is to do otherwise. This speech will be forgotten as soon as the news cycle rotates. The colleges will continue to get the money and vote Democrat.
Identity verification should be a core function of a national government
No it shouldn't. Ideally, the government shouldn't even know who I am, although historically we've accepted that military-age men are on a register. If we decide that *anybody* is providing us a service, then I want those services to have their own ID systems. Why? Because if my Slashdot ID is compromised I look like an idiot on Slashdot. If the bank where I keep a small account for local bills is compromised, I have a hassle with that account until it's sorted out. If my ONE FUCKING NATIONAL ID is compromised, I'm a non-person everywhere. I can't pay bills out of the small account, so I start racking up late fees. I can't register my car, so I get tickets, and I can't pay them, and I get late fees. By the time it's all said and done, I'll be paying some lawyer $10,000 to prove that I really am me, and that I shouldn't really have to pay $543,243 in late fees. And what's worse, I'll look like an idiot on Slashdot.
4 5 6 7 9
This is what it's come 2
All the time
Numbers, numbers in my eyes
Digits pointing to the skies
Flying into buildings
4 Justification
Numbered people
Numbered nations
Dodging the demons
On number stations
There is a good chance he had prostate cancer and didn't know it. Most men will get slow growing prostate cancer. The saying has become, "you are more likely to die with it than from it".
Also, his immune system probably killed some cancer cells. As the other poster said, he was at the far end of the curve where everything that prevents cancer worked right.
I've always assumed they were using it for financial corruption. Who cares about what empty suit is sitting in office when you can score the quarterly reports a few hours early? Yeah, yeah Senator so-n-so. They pay both parties. Who cares. It's the FINANCIAL DATA. Because, you know... that's where the money is.
Now that I think about it, the question of concealing the clone is moot. I know virtually nothing about animal registries, but I'm willing to wager that registered animal's records include the parents. If it's a clone, it has only one parent. If they work around that by claiming that the clone has two parents (the parents of the original animal) that would likely create several animals born within an unnatural timeframe. I don't know how common it is to use surrogates with livestock. If they do, is that normally recorded in the registry? Either they record the clone, or they cast aspersions upon other members who crossed and used a surrogate. It seems like they would almost *have* to label the clones to avoid conflicts among members, even if they didn't want to. It's getting late... maybe I'm missing something.
If this registry were Microsoft, I wonder how the tone of the comments would change. Apparently, they have a monopoly on the registry. That opens them up for regulation. The cloned horses are legal, but their owners can't register them without creating a whole new register and trying to compete, which is too steep a hurdle because... it's a monopoly. So. As long as the registry is allowed to mark the horses as clones, I don't see a problem with this ruling. That way, the clone owners get to register their animals, and people who don't want clones in a bloodline can look it up and exclude it.
My computer isn't set up to pay the bills. It isn't set up to pay the penalties for not paying the bills either. I was too busy programming an interface to my asset protection plan. It's beautiful. You should see it. Rounded corners and everything, and the interest on my overseas accounts is lined up in formatted columns and everything. It doesn't do medical billing outlays though. So sorry. I'm sure you'll understand.
But freedom is useless if crime and terror hit a certain level.
Really? To what level must they rise? I wager we have lost more people to influenza in the past 10 years than terrorism. Perhaps we need cameras in the bathrooms to make sure employees are really washing their... hmm.... better not give them any ideas...
Slashdot Mirror
Patch XP past its EOL, and charge $30/yr for the patch subscriptions. I'll buy it.
What I will NEVER do is use a locked-down phone platform as my primary device.
Which is why I wrote "Seems like a 'man in the moon' phenomenon."
Ahhhh, OK, so the semantics there were not clear to me. This reminds me of when the PE teachers used to say, "don't carry the ball like a loaf of bread" and I had no idea what they were trying to tell me, and I was too embarrassed to ask.
OK, but if I go to the *left* of the moon, I see some dark blue brush strokes, just above the star. See that? It's one of the World Trade towers, the one that had the antenna. You have to turn your head to the right to see that one. It's falling over. The Moon--a symbol of Islam, knocked if over. Plainly Van Gogh foresaw 9/11... NOT!
I can see the WTC because I decided to look for other random crap in the brush strokes. The data set is large, and combined with an imagination and a decent set of procedures (zoom, tilt, etc.) you can conjure up just about anything you like.
I can sort of turn that yellow brush stroke into a dragon... if I really, really, try; but the WTC thing is clearer to me.
Now let's see if we can find something a little less radical. Here's the challenge--find a telephone in the brush strokes. That was what I tried first, but as I panned left the WTC was more obvious.
Once again, it's all just looking at clouds. Some people are going to see stuff that others don't.
OK, did some more googling. Actually I'm a bit surprised at the breakdown with cigarettes coming in at 1%.
There are pie charts like this from various states, and the highest percentage for cigarettes was 5%. Different regions have different characteristis. For example, it's much less likely for lightning to start a fire in Virginia because the vegetation is wetter.
I don't feel like googling the laws; but I bet you can get criminal penalties for a cigarette-caused fire in the US too. It seems like you could certainly get sued into oblivion if they can prove it's your fault.
Try as I might, I see no dragon. Doing a Google image search for "van gogh" dragon and "starry night" turns up zilch. Post an image with an outline of the dragon, please. Is the hole supposed to be the nose or an eye?
I think maybe you're just tripping up over your brain's natural tendency to see patterns. It's like seeing things in clouds.
Here is a brief history right from the source. I was aware that oak savannah (sp.?) in the Bay Area was a Native-created habitat; but wasn't sure how widespread Native burning was. According to some sources; quite wide spread. Of course I'm sure Natives had campfires go out of control sometimes. OTOH, they didn't have strips of asphalt everywhere delivering hot gasoline engines driven by people with little fire-starters at their lips, which they fling from the windows of said gasoline-powered vehicles. You'd think everybody in CA would know better; but I've stomped out my share of burning butts around here. It was on city streets where they wouldn't start a fire; but you know those bad habits get taken right up into the hills, along the byways...
Maybe, maybe not. On the one hand they release CO2, but they also release particulates and *where* those things end up in the atmosphere matters, because that impacts how fast they are reabsorbed and/or break down. Oh, you mean it's not an effect of global warming? Less sure about that.
One thing is certain--we have only been managing the forests for about 100 years. Native Americans didn't have planes dropping retardant and massive crews with chainsaws cutting breaks. The "dark day" that occured over New England in the early 1800s is thought to be from a fire in what is now Canada and/or the northern US.
If wildfires are increasing, my first suspect is the decades of fuel we stored when the states had enough money to put out every spark. Now we don't have the money, but we have all that fuel stored.
Still just a distraction from STOCKINT. Follow the money. The first time I considered such massive surveillance, front-running market events was what came to mind. This is just like anything else in politics. Get people thinking about sex to distract them from the real crimes.
Never. It's an arms race. Your neighbor levers up, so you gotta lever up. Like all arms races, the only winners are the arms dealers. Wait for it... Educational-Industrial complex. You knew that was coming.
Also, they're part of Obama's core constituency. He has to pay lip service to the idea of reducing costs; but his political incentive is to do otherwise. This speech will be forgotten as soon as the news cycle rotates. The colleges will continue to get the money and vote Democrat.
Imagine you're a douche bag
It's easy if you try.
No cells to grow us.
Just self-promoting guys...
Identity verification should be a core function of a national government
No it shouldn't. Ideally, the government shouldn't even know who I am, although historically we've accepted that military-age men are on a register. If we decide that *anybody* is providing us a service, then I want those services to have their own ID systems. Why? Because if my Slashdot ID is compromised I look like an idiot on Slashdot. If the bank where I keep a small account for local bills is compromised, I have a hassle with that account until it's sorted out. If my ONE FUCKING NATIONAL ID is compromised, I'm a non-person everywhere. I can't pay bills out of the small account, so I start racking up late fees. I can't register my car, so I get tickets, and I can't pay them, and I get late fees. By the time it's all said and done, I'll be paying some lawyer $10,000 to prove that I really am me, and that I shouldn't really have to pay $543,243 in late fees. And what's worse, I'll look like an idiot on Slashdot.
The aforementioned tweet.
No. He pretty much nailed it. I would have said essentially the same thing; but I think I tweeted something along those lines a while ago like...
"Everybody is linked to everybody else. We don't need LinkedIn to know that".
4 5 6 7 9
This is what it's come 2
All the time
Numbers, numbers in my eyes
Digits pointing to the skies
Flying into buildings
4 Justification
Numbered people
Numbered nations
Dodging the demons
On number stations
Among many other things, death entails a complete lack of power.
You wake up in the garage at 2 AM.
"Car, was it interesting?"
(in Siri-like voice) "Yes. It. Was. Interesting".
"Car, why does it smell like 10W 40 in here?"
"I do not know. What. You are talking. About".
Maybe you didn't realize it; but you've given us a rather succinct re-telling of the Mexican fisherman story
There is a good chance he had prostate cancer and didn't know it. Most men will get slow growing prostate cancer. The saying has become, "you are more likely to die with it than from it".
Also, his immune system probably killed some cancer cells. As the other poster said, he was at the far end of the curve where everything that prevents cancer worked right.
I've always assumed they were using it for financial corruption. Who cares about what empty suit is sitting in office when you can score the quarterly reports a few hours early? Yeah, yeah Senator so-n-so. They pay both parties. Who cares. It's the FINANCIAL DATA. Because, you know... that's where the money is.
Is anybody else disappointed that TFA doesn't have slow-motion video of an actual grasshopper (the insect) flying sideways? That'd be pretty cool.
This will be the axis around which the world... um... hey, can I get back to you on this?
Now that I think about it, the question of concealing the clone is moot. I know virtually nothing about animal registries, but I'm willing to wager that registered animal's records include the parents. If it's a clone, it has only one parent. If they work around that by claiming that the clone has two parents (the parents of the original animal) that would likely create several animals born within an unnatural timeframe. I don't know how common it is to use surrogates with livestock. If they do, is that normally recorded in the registry? Either they record the clone, or they cast aspersions upon other members who crossed and used a surrogate. It seems like they would almost *have* to label the clones to avoid conflicts among members, even if they didn't want to. It's getting late... maybe I'm missing something.
If this registry were Microsoft, I wonder how the tone of the comments would change. Apparently, they have a monopoly on the registry. That opens them up for regulation. The cloned horses are legal, but their owners can't register them without creating a whole new register and trying to compete, which is too steep a hurdle because... it's a monopoly. So. As long as the registry is allowed to mark the horses as clones, I don't see a problem with this ruling. That way, the clone owners get to register their animals, and people who don't want clones in a bloodline can look it up and exclude it.
My computer isn't set up to pay the bills. It isn't set up to pay the penalties for not paying the bills either. I was too busy programming an interface to my asset protection plan. It's beautiful. You should see it. Rounded corners and everything, and the interest on my overseas accounts is lined up in formatted columns and everything. It doesn't do medical billing outlays though. So sorry. I'm sure you'll understand.
But freedom is useless if crime and terror hit a certain level.
Really? To what level must they rise? I wager we have lost more people to influenza in the past 10 years than terrorism. Perhaps we need cameras in the bathrooms to make sure employees are really washing their... hmm.... better not give them any ideas...