The BBC: "The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union."
What does the BBC mean by "slow down". Why should anyone *want* to join a farce such as the EU, and then even worse, the Euro? As if joining the EU was inevitable.
What the BBC could have said, "The majority of the Icelandic population wants to remain free from the EU, and the Euro."
While belief in God(s) or any perfect imaginary friend can provide a sense of hope and a sense of purpose, it's still just a placebo effect. Ignorance is often bliss. I think solving the actual, real causes of illnesses should be preferred. Sorting out and making sense of feelings, thoughts, and physical situations.
Sending any depressed or hopeless person to church or mosque, or leaving them to their own superstitions, to prevent suicide is a very cruel mistreatment.
Atheism and science are far from perfect, much remains to be discovered and understood. Yet compared to religions, at least science *tries* to fix problems.
La Forge: The Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours. Scotty: Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way. But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want. La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour. Scotty: How long will it really take? La Forge: An hour! Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya? La Forge: Well, of course I did. Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
All currencies have a subjective value for each individual at each point in time. Unlike an objective value as say, 1 meter, or 1 gram.
When i'm willing to trade 1 BTC for 1 USD or 1 g Gold that's my choice, and if anyone else agrees during that time we can trade.
I'm having a zen-like moment where i'm thinking as a ferengi and a hippie at the same time... Money is a game that we're all forced to play, and naturally there are many that looses. Then comes the problem that the rich can rig the game so that they win no matter how stupid they are.
Just hand it over to any teenager - they usually destroy most things that comes anywhere near them. To guarantee swift and total destruction make sure to tell them to *please* be careful with it. And that it is fragile and expensive.
During my Privoxy experimental years i tried life without sending any HTTP User Agent header. It mostly worked fine. Some pages looked wierd. And a few pages refused, and barfed errors; "Danger! Danger! Server is confused. Evil user for sure."
The only way to end these endless UA detection games is to NOT play.
There will be some rough sailing for some years. But once we've crossed that problem, the benefits makes it worth it.
How many agnostics are there in the world? Considering that younger children are, like most animals, agnostic from birth. And when humans grows up they either discover that religion is bull and becomes atheists. Or joins a religion.
wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+children+are+there+in+the+world Humans age 0-15: 1855 Million, 2009 estimate.
The younger they are - the more likely agnostic. And many adults are agnostic. Hmmm...
Can we change Serial Numbers then? I'm been looking for a simple command-line program for this. Just for the fun to see if it's even possible, or if it's set in stone in hardware... im curius.
Symbolism and placebo effects can have some usefulness. Earth Hour is a last desperate attempt at getting people to at least try to save something. Just to see what it's like. After that, more people can start saving all-year round.
Hopefully people starts to realize that saving isn't that uncomfortable and that it's for their own good.
The advertisers basically calls the shots on Facebook. I think there's a gradual cashing out going on, and the beginning of FB has already begun. Not that i'm complaining.
There's plenty of tracking methods remaining. Here's a few, https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie While NoScript stops most tracking methods - it's not user-friendly enough.
Shuttleworth's response translated: Ubuntu is spyware by default.
It's disturbing that Mark Shuttleworth fails to realize how privacy works. The right move would be to give users clear optional choices that honestly explains the tradeoff: Do you want to support Ubuntu by allowing us to spy on you: Yes or No.
And then comes they fun of SEO - trying to pass over as much Rank value to the next site... Hoping to use 301, or rel=canonical. Hence why i dip my toes shallow in sites with unknown lifespans.
As infected computers are often infected multiple times. Perhaps future viruses should just wipe the drive and install a clean Linux, and then run their malware job from there. Sure, it's more complicated but think of the rewards: better uptimes, faster performance, and great protection from competing viruses.
Slashdot Mirror
About being a little more Star Trek,
Picard: The economics of the future are somewhat different.
You see, money doesn't exist in the 24th century.
Lily Sloane: No money. You mean, you don't get paid?
Picard: The acquisition of wealth is no longer the driving force of our lives.
We work to better ourselves and the rest of humanity.
- Star Trek: First Contact
Somehow i think the notion of 'no money' sits uncomfortable with advertisement companies, such as Google.
The BBC: "The two leading parties, which will now enter coalition negotiations, are also seen as
Eurosceptic, and their poll success could slow down Iceland's efforts to become a member of the European Union."
What does the BBC mean by "slow down". Why should anyone *want* to join a farce such as the EU,
and then even worse, the Euro? As if joining the EU was inevitable.
What the BBC could have said,
"The majority of the Icelandic population wants to remain free from the EU, and the Euro."
While belief in God(s) or any perfect imaginary friend can provide a sense of hope and a sense of purpose, it's still just a placebo effect. Ignorance is often bliss. I think solving the actual, real causes of illnesses should be preferred. Sorting out and making sense of feelings, thoughts, and physical situations.
Sending any depressed or hopeless person to church or mosque, or leaving them to their own superstitions, to prevent suicide is a very cruel mistreatment.
Atheism and science are far from perfect, much remains to be discovered and understood. Yet compared to religions, at least science *tries* to fix problems.
Just put Google Glasses on a Drone and fly it after Schmidt 24/7.
La Forge: The Captain wants this spectrographic analysis done by 1300 hours.
Scotty: Starfleet captains are like children. They want everything right now and they want it their way.
But the secret is to give them only what they need, not what they want.
La Forge: Yeah, well, I told the Captain I'd have this analysis done in an hour.
Scotty: How long will it really take?
La Forge: An hour!
Scotty: Oh, you didn't tell him how long it would *really* take, did ya?
La Forge: Well, of course I did.
Scotty: Oh, laddie. You've got a lot to learn if you want people to think of you as a miracle worker.
- TNG 6x04
Jar-Jar is the worst. At least they *bleep* everything C3PO says.
The Maibatsu Thunder!
"On the tall road of life, you have to pay to prove you can."
https://youtube.com/results?q=gta+maibatsu+thunder
Btw, the wave–particle question is solved. It's now a field.
Sean Carroll,
https://youtu.be/sSLGaUQRWHg
All currencies have a subjective value for each individual at each point in time. Unlike an objective value as say, 1 meter, or 1 gram.
When i'm willing to trade 1 BTC for 1 USD or 1 g Gold that's my choice, and if anyone else agrees during that time we can trade.
I'm having a zen-like moment where i'm thinking as a ferengi and a hippie at the same time... Money is a game that we're all forced to play, and naturally there are many that looses. Then comes the problem that the rich can rig the game so that they win no matter how stupid they are.
Yeah. And add built-in ability to download torrents. And rename it to Opera!
Just hand it over to any teenager - they usually destroy most things that comes anywhere near them.
To guarantee swift and total destruction make sure to tell them to *please* be careful with it.
And that it is fragile and expensive.
Well, the boring 300 Gbit/s is a whopping thrilling 1080000 Gbit/h.
During my Privoxy experimental years i tried life without sending any HTTP User Agent header.
It mostly worked fine. Some pages looked wierd. And a few pages refused, and barfed errors;
"Danger! Danger! Server is confused. Evil user for sure."
The only way to end these endless UA detection games is to NOT play.
There will be some rough sailing for some years. But once we've crossed that problem,
the benefits makes it worth it.
How many agnostics are there in the world?
Considering that younger children are, like most animals, agnostic from birth. And when humans
grows up they either discover that religion is bull and becomes atheists. Or joins a religion.
wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+many+children+are+there+in+the+world
Humans age 0-15: 1855 Million, 2009 estimate.
The younger they are - the more likely agnostic. And many adults are agnostic.
Hmmm...
Can we change Serial Numbers then? I'm been looking for a simple command-line program for this.
Just for the fun to see if it's even possible, or if it's set in stone in hardware... im curius.
"Help me internet - you're my only hope"
Symbolism and placebo effects can have some usefulness.
Earth Hour is a last desperate attempt at getting people to at least try to save something.
Just to see what it's like. After that, more people can start saving all-year round.
Hopefully people starts to realize that saving isn't that uncomfortable and that it's for their own good.
The advertisers basically calls the shots on Facebook. I think there's a gradual cashing out going on, and the beginning of FB has already begun. Not that i'm complaining.
What's next, Hindenburg replica?
There's plenty of tracking methods remaining. Here's a few,
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Evercookie
While NoScript stops most tracking methods - it's not user-friendly enough.
Please Anonymous, be constructive rather than destructive.
Shuttleworth's response translated: Ubuntu is spyware by default.
It's disturbing that Mark Shuttleworth fails to realize how privacy works.
The right move would be to give users clear optional choices that honestly explains the tradeoff:
Do you want to support Ubuntu by allowing us to spy on you:
Yes or No.
And then comes they fun of SEO - trying to pass over as much Rank value to the next site... Hoping to use 301, or rel=canonical. Hence why i dip my toes shallow in sites with unknown lifespans.
I mostly just follow the web standards and let the browser developers worry about support.
As infected computers are often infected multiple times. Perhaps future viruses should
just wipe the drive and install a clean Linux, and then run their malware job from there.
Sure, it's more complicated but think of the rewards: better uptimes, faster performance,
and great protection from competing viruses.
(Hint: i'm being sarcastic, or cynical.)
What about adding a module that spins - to simulate gravity.
But i guess it has to be carefully balanced to avoid wobbling. Maybe this can be compensated somehow with liquids?