No, a Common mutagen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutagen) are Alkaloid plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaloid) which include Cocaine. I'm sure there are more but that's what I was able to figure out after a quick google.
I apologize for the late reply, I was very busy and just read my mails today.
So to your point, regarding Americans' 'inability to imagine a non-American English speaker', of course they don't generally assume that, it wouldn't make any sense for them to do so in context.
It would make a lot of sense to a 3rd grader who has just learned that ENGlish is spoken in ENGland and that American was a originally a colony of said country. Unless of course you are suggesting that isolationism is a reason to be uneducated.
Secondly, what other countries seem to interpret as arrogance appears to be some sort of reverse projected narcissism: "OMG you are so self-centered, you never notice me!"...and if you don't get the irony in that statement, well, then you're hopelessly humorless.
To suggest that lack of regard equals arrogance is naive, presumptuous, and ultimately self-defeating.
Yes, I do see irony in that statement, however not the one you intended. It takes immense arrogance to see a person pointing out your arrogance as a case of reverse projected narcissism. Self-Defeating eh?
To then use THAT as a motivation to generically HATE someone, based on nothing more than their country of origin? I'd call that a self-justifying conceit - dare I call it arrogance? - itself.
Get over yourself - nobody automagically is entitled to that level of importance; not Americans individually, and certainly not you.
I never said I hated Americans, I live in Japan as a European person. I simply intended to point out a flawed assumption in the parents post, namely that even those people which hate Americans must all be Americans.
There just seems to be a subculture of Americans, of which Slashdot has more than normal, that love to hate on America.
Do you want to know why so many people hate Americans? It's because Americans are so full of themselves that they can't imagine a non-American English speaker.
Assassins Creed Lineage, I know it's only 30 minutes long but it's AWESOME!
It's free too, you can even find a good quality official channel on youtube.
Of course you might not like/understand it if you haven't played the game.
Creating the program/script is not the difficult part. You see, the extra D in front of DOS stands for distributed, meaning more than one computer attacks at once, making it a lot more efficient. It takes a lot of skill to organize the people or create a bot net of good size.
Of course your metaphor still holds tight, but remember, a thousand peasants throwing rocks hurts a lot more.
You people do not understand the Japanese Culture and I'm shocked at how racist you behave!
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@pegr >>Japan, one of the most racist and nationalistic societies left on the planet
I doubt that! In Japan even a different hair colour is not something they make fun about or detest, in fact they actually think it's beautiful and they often dye their own hair to look blond.
>>There is no consideration of fairness, only service to the greater good, as defined by the politics of the day
Have you ever lived there recently? They pick up trash if it gets left in the train by someone else. I haven't seen that anywhere else.Yes it is for the greater good to care about your environment and community, but is there anything wrong with that? NO! In fact the greater _good_ is surprisingly, GOOD!
>>It is bad and/or weird.
Oh it's weird? There's racism for you!
@Unoriginal_Nickname
>>no laws about racial persecution
They don't need them, that's why there are none.
>>products and services that are unobtainable unless you are a Japanese citizen, born in Japan, pure-blooded Japanese, never lived outside of Japan and also fortunate enough for none of your ancestors to have butchered an animal or buried a dead body
This can be compare to the European tradition of burning "witches". They are traditions from the middle age and just because you are ignorant doesn't mean they are still practised today.
@Repossessed
>>They did outlaw discrimination based on blood type though! That they even needed that law is pretty terrifying though.
No it's not. Almost every Japanese person know their blood type and for them it's like a skin colour. It's different, not terrifying.
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And to top of this roundhouse kick, Why do you think the Japanese have superior technology even though they where cut of from the rest of the world for a long time of their history?
Is it because they're superior? Hmm?
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Yes, I currently reside in Japan. No, I'm not Japanese.
I recently watched a video where this was predicted. I did a Google Search to find it again just for you guys:
YouTube - Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence
Anyway, the author had an interesting theory to why this happened in his simulation. He thought that once the peak of the DNA complexity was reached, evolution started removing the unnecessary parts. Weather this is called evolution or devolution is debateable.
Or you could simply buy a PSP 1000 (phat) for half the price and get a proper CFW on it, not just an eggsploit which disappears whenever you perform a hard-reset.
I think buying a new PSP is a waste of money, especially when Sony was so nice as to make everything 100% backwards compatible. The only advantages of the PSP 3000 towards the 1000 is it weighs less, comes in all kinds of ugly colors, and has a terribly cheap microphone embeded in it.
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No, a Common mutagen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutagen) are Alkaloid plants (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaloid) which include Cocaine. I'm sure there are more but that's what I was able to figure out after a quick google.
So to your point, regarding Americans' 'inability to imagine a non-American English speaker', of course they don't generally assume that, it wouldn't make any sense for them to do so in context.
It would make a lot of sense to a 3rd grader who has just learned that ENGlish is spoken in ENGland and that American was a originally a colony of said country. Unless of course you are suggesting that isolationism is a reason to be uneducated.
Secondly, what other countries seem to interpret as arrogance appears to be some sort of reverse projected narcissism: "OMG you are so self-centered, you never notice me!"...and if you don't get the irony in that statement, well, then you're hopelessly humorless.
To suggest that lack of regard equals arrogance is naive, presumptuous, and ultimately self-defeating.
Yes, I do see irony in that statement, however not the one you intended. It takes immense arrogance to see a person pointing out your arrogance as a case of reverse projected narcissism. Self-Defeating eh?
To then use THAT as a motivation to generically HATE someone, based on nothing more than their country of origin? I'd call that a self-justifying conceit - dare I call it arrogance? - itself.
Get over yourself - nobody automagically is entitled to that level of importance; not Americans individually, and certainly not you.
I never said I hated Americans, I live in Japan as a European person. I simply intended to point out a flawed assumption in the parents post, namely that even those people which hate Americans must all be Americans.
It's probably the best way to attract large streams of users.
What are these large streams of users you are speaking about?
There just seems to be a subculture of Americans, of which Slashdot has more than normal, that love to hate on America.
Do you want to know why so many people hate Americans? It's because Americans are so full of themselves that they can't imagine a non-American English speaker.
http://www.xkcd.com/736/
Assassins Creed Lineage, I know it's only 30 minutes long but it's AWESOME! It's free too, you can even find a good quality official channel on youtube. Of course you might not like/understand it if you haven't played the game.
Watching someone die due to the "side" effects of watching someone play a video game of baseball - buy popcorn
Made in China
RTFA It says tiny cube and space, It's most definitely talking about the Ark!
You know that unlike in america, we store the bullets in a public town center only accessible in times of war
What have you Done!
http://xkcd.com/591/
Now the darknetz are doomed !11!!!!1!
but, but, There is NO Cake!
Also known as Mature Bullying
Creating the program/script is not the difficult part. You see, the extra D in front of DOS stands for distributed, meaning more than one computer attacks at once, making it a lot more efficient. It takes a lot of skill to organize the people or create a bot net of good size.
Of course your metaphor still holds tight, but remember, a thousand peasants throwing rocks hurts a lot more.
Real Linux Users build their own computers!
Predicted Reply:
"We used to compute with 5 ton stones and dead penguins, now get of my lawn!"
We had those here (Japan) for 5 years now, they're quite popular in rural areas or for shopping but otherwise everyone takes the train.
They forgot to mention this one:
http://campaign.live.jp/bing/
It's in Japanese but if you type something in the text box and press the search button next to it you'll figure out why it's so peculiar.
It's a laughable attempt to get Bing popular, so go ahead and laugh =D
I can disprove the 30GB upload cap;
When Ubuntu 8.04 was released I was one of the first to download it and I helped seed. The speeds never dropped and I uploaded around 120GB.
Japan = Fiber Optics = No Limits = Jealous Readers
I for one Welcome our New Slashdot Overlords!
Sony has a huge chance! The Custom Firmware Community is gigantic and if Sony finally starts to harness it they will probably even beat the I-Phone.
You people do not understand the Japanese Culture and I'm shocked at how racist you behave!
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@pegr
>>Japan, one of the most racist and nationalistic societies left on the planet
I doubt that! In Japan even a different hair colour is not something they make fun about or detest, in fact they actually think it's beautiful and they often dye their own hair to look blond.
>>There is no consideration of fairness, only service to the greater good, as defined by the politics of the day
Have you ever lived there recently? They pick up trash if it gets left in the train by someone else. I haven't seen that anywhere else.Yes it is for the greater good to care about your environment and community, but is there anything wrong with that? NO! In fact the greater _good_ is surprisingly, GOOD!
>>It is bad and/or weird.
Oh it's weird? There's racism for you!
@Unoriginal_Nickname
>>no laws about racial persecution
They don't need them, that's why there are none.
>>products and services that are unobtainable unless you are a Japanese citizen, born in Japan, pure-blooded Japanese, never lived outside of Japan and also fortunate enough for none of your ancestors to have butchered an animal or buried a dead body
This can be compare to the European tradition of burning "witches". They are traditions from the middle age and just because you are ignorant doesn't mean they are still practised today.
@Repossessed
>>They did outlaw discrimination based on blood type though! That they even needed that law is pretty terrifying though.
No it's not. Almost every Japanese person know their blood type and for them it's like a skin colour. It's different, not terrifying.
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And to top of this roundhouse kick,
Why do you think the Japanese have superior technology even though they where cut of from the rest of the world for a long time of their history?
Is it because they're superior? Hmm?
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Yes, I currently reside in Japan.
No, I'm not Japanese.
The IT Crowd was my very first thought!
It's sad though to see this VERY VERY satani *cough* satireistic movie become reality.
And doesn't the government get at least a little mad? Last time I checked their prison system wasn't supposed to be depicted like that...
I recently watched a video where this was predicted.
I did a Google Search to find it again just for you guys:
YouTube - Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence
Anyway, the author had an interesting theory to why this happened in his simulation. He thought that once the peak of the DNA complexity was reached, evolution started removing the unnecessary parts. Weather this is called evolution or devolution is debateable.
It takes certain talent to imagine a boon in inflatable cars...
Or you could simply buy a PSP 1000 (phat) for half the price and get a proper CFW on it, not just an eggsploit which disappears whenever you perform a hard-reset.
I think buying a new PSP is a waste of money, especially when Sony was so nice as to make everything 100% backwards compatible. The only advantages of the PSP 3000 towards the 1000 is it weighs less, comes in all kinds of ugly colors, and has a terribly cheap microphone embeded in it.