I'm not defending those that call Obama extreme terms. I'm asking what exactly defines someone as "Center."
The political compass seems to be a bit... biased. Or at least opinionated/non-neutral "One of Palin's evangelical supporters reminded us that Obama's background was as a mere community organiser. Well yes, but so was Jesus, while Pontius Pilate was a governor." They don't mention that the Obama side said the same things about Palin - no experience, etc.
Also, I don't quite see how Obama/Biden are closer to Libertarian than all the rest of the mainstream candidates. I understand how you could tip the scales on Left/Right enough so that someone is right of Center, but I don't understand how they are more Libertarian. That could just be ignorance on my part, of course. Feel free to enlighten.:)
I think it's probably because you're confusing "libertarianism" with the policies of the US Libertarian party, so perhaps it would make more sense if you replaced the word libertarianism with anarchism. Bearing in mind that the chart is based on what they said rather than what they were going to do, its easy to see why Obama is a bit more anarchistic than McCain:) . It's basically a Nolan chart rotated ninety degrees.
The libertarian college student is smoking pot and measuring his dick with a ruler.
The last three US presidents were recreational drug users at college. So, taking this into account, can we infer from your comment that the next president will be a libertarian?
I'm undecided about that. When it comes to this kind of information, at this time, public is probably safer than would-be anonymous.
If anything happens to Assange, the entire world knows where to look. Even the Mossad can't make public figures disappear without leaving a trail. Whereas a would-be anonymous leaking organization can be easily disappeared or infiltrated.
The problem with being anonymous is that you never actually are.
OS X - built-in Preview app Linux - Evince, several others M-Windows - Foxit, Sumatra
The alternatives are so much better than Adobe Acrobat Reader that I think we can now say that the alternatives are the market and Acrobat Reader is the poor alternative.
Add Chromium to that mix too; it now supports PDF, and is available for all of those platforms.
For instance, imagine you're given a set of parts with simulated physics and physical+logical interconnects. I figure with real robots there would be a lot of welding and metal-piece-shaping involved, but imagine if somehow all that was virtual/programmable, and the whole thing moved according to your programming (lower leg goes up to xx degrees, has such and such torque/force/movement curve)..... we could have competitions to see who can program the fastest running bot!
BOT DANCE COMPETITIONS!
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP ROBOT!
Hmmm... I may sound like I own a Wii:), but IMHO you don't want to make it too complex, just a simple macro based system, or perhaps an event based flow chart. There also needs to be some sort of penalty for overly complex orders.
hmm what if you had to code during the game (no way to save/restore programs), and you're also limited there by a resource? So you can't implement that 5000 lines of code AI, because you only have 10 seconds for it, and you only have collected enough energy for 5 lines of code.
Yeah that sounds sweet, you could also just make it so the more complex the units code is the longer it would take to train. You could also unlock new functions as you progress, and have a spy unit to steal enemies various code.
The real answer is requiring companies to ask permission and bar them from trying to compel people to give them the permission. It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
I would say the drugs test is far more invasive, but still allowable, as long as there is no compulsion to take the job, economic included.
I have a 2yr old and he thinks Train set is Sentient. So I don't really think this is any kind of breakthrough.
I remember feeling guilt about picking an unblemished apple over a bruised one. I must have developed my empathy skills fairly quickly though; only a few months later I was already trying to create a new species of flightless insects.
It seems that the membership of certainorganisations are still in the infantile stages though.
Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.
Most European countries use the comma for the decimal point, and the full stop for the digit grouping, whereas English speaking countries do it the other way around. Case closed.
If they can't learn anything that's not applicable, they either have mental problems, or were raised to value ignorance. If they have mental problems they need additional help - and you can't fix the parents. Many of them are idiots. The education system does need many changes, but being individually tailored to each student is not how. One important thing for them to learn is that not everybody teaches the same way. They can change.
The problem when I was at school was that we spent 90% percent of the time memorizing and regurgitating texts or doing repetitive examples, and about 10% percent of the time doing research and learning new things. I found the boredom of spending a week analysing the subtleties and subtexts of "pearl harbour" to be unbearable. I would have found, for example, studying the Paston letters to be fascinating, and I'm sure many in the class would have been the same. In my case it wasn't so much that I had difficulties learning "things that weren't applicable", but keeping interested when we were either studying such low-brow stuff or doing such a large amount of unchallenging textbook examples; well that and I think I'm a bit ADD.
Well if I found a strange device that looked like that I wouldn't take any chances. I'd probably head straight for the lake and throw it in. All this fear mongering by the media really makes me scared of bombs, see...
Put it under some politicians car, see how they like it.
We already have some of the strongest pesticide regulations in the world. Its not clear to me how pesticides play a role in this scenario.In an unrelated pesticide story larger US cities are currently reporting much higher incidences of bedbug infestation, largely blamed on the banning of DDT in 1972.
Bedbugs are fairly harmless, especially when compared to DDT; and there are other more suitable pesticides available. On the other hand I can understand using it against Mosquito's/Malaria. The various DDT bans do seem silly when the even more toxic organophosphates are in relatively unrestricted use.
For extra flamebait, it's been suggested that around 10% of the French fatalities at Verdun in WW1 were "friendly fire". Traditionally the military has been more dangerous to its own side than the enemy; until modern medicine and transport, more soldiers got killed (by disease, climate, training and brutality) outside active warfare than in it. Cue realistic war games in which syphilis and typhoid are far more dangerous than enemy action.
I think they could probably put in a typhoid mini-game
The game play would be based around keeping up your fluid and electrolyte intake, whilst trying avoid shitting yourself to close to allies or water supplies.
I used to vote along the 'realistic' least evil lines, but over the last decade I've come to regard voters in democracies as complicit in, and responsible for the policies of the ones we vote for. And so I cannot vote for any party whose actions I find unconscionable; I'd carry the stain of responsibility, no matter how small a part, for their actions on my conscience.
I might not get a candidate that wins these days, but at least I'm not getting betrayed by mine or made part of their crimes.
I have come to realise this too; luckily I have only voted once, so I haven't done to much damage with my tactical voting. The most intriguing thing to me is that the party I tactically tried to vote against, well they one the election, and in my eyes they are doing a better job than the previously incumbent party that I voted for.
There isn't really a party that matches my political views, but there are two that are "close enough" I suppose, both at opposite ends of the left-right spectrum.
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I'm not defending those that call Obama extreme terms. I'm asking what exactly defines someone as "Center."
The political compass seems to be a bit ... biased. Or at least opinionated/non-neutral "One of Palin's evangelical supporters reminded us that Obama's background was as a mere community organiser. Well yes, but so was Jesus, while Pontius Pilate was a governor." They don't mention that the Obama side said the same things about Palin - no experience, etc.
Also, I don't quite see how Obama/Biden are closer to Libertarian than all the rest of the mainstream candidates. I understand how you could tip the scales on Left/Right enough so that someone is right of Center, but I don't understand how they are more Libertarian. That could just be ignorance on my part, of course. Feel free to enlighten. :)
I think it's probably because you're confusing "libertarianism" with the policies of the US Libertarian party, so perhaps it would make more sense if you replaced the word libertarianism with anarchism. Bearing in mind that the chart is based on what they said rather than what they were going to do, its easy to see why Obama is a bit more anarchistic than McCain :) . It's basically a Nolan chart rotated ninety degrees.
The libertarian college student is smoking pot and measuring his dick with a ruler.
The last three US presidents were recreational drug users at college. So, taking this into account, can we infer from your comment that the next president will be a libertarian?
I'm undecided about that. When it comes to this kind of information, at this time, public is probably safer than would-be anonymous.
If anything happens to Assange, the entire world knows where to look. Even the Mossad can't make public figures disappear without leaving a trail. Whereas a would-be anonymous leaking organization can be easily disappeared or infiltrated.
The problem with being anonymous is that you never actually are.
Mossad suck, they can't even steal passports and get away with it :)
OS X - built-in Preview app
Linux - Evince, several others
M-Windows - Foxit, Sumatra
The alternatives are so much better than Adobe Acrobat Reader that I think we can now say that the alternatives are the market and Acrobat Reader is the poor alternative.
Add Chromium to that mix too; it now supports PDF, and is available for all of those platforms.
But perhaps UpYoursOffice might be better because that sounds more like European-bastardized English and less Japanese than FuckYouOffice.
What about just UpYourOrifice, that has a good ring to it.
That was me BTW.
For instance, imagine you're given a set of parts with simulated physics and physical+logical interconnects. .... we could have competitions to see who can program the fastest running bot!
I figure with real robots there would be a lot of welding and metal-piece-shaping involved, but imagine if somehow all that was virtual/programmable, and the whole thing moved according to your programming (lower leg goes up to xx degrees, has such and such torque/force/movement curve).
BOT DANCE COMPETITIONS!
AMERICA'S NEXT TOP ROBOT!
Hmmm... I may sound like I own a Wii :), but IMHO you don't want to make it too complex, just a simple macro based system, or perhaps an event based flow chart. There also needs to be some sort of penalty for overly complex orders.
hmm what if you had to code during the game (no way to save/restore programs), and you're also limited there by a resource? So you can't implement that 5000 lines of code AI, because you only have 10 seconds for it, and you only have collected enough energy for 5 lines of code.
Yeah that sounds sweet, you could also just make it so the more complex the units code is the longer it would take to train. You could also unlock new functions as you progress, and have a spy unit to steal enemies various code.
The real answer is requiring companies to ask permission and bar them from trying to compel people to give them the permission. It's one thing to require a drug test and background check for a job, but it's quite another to include in that background check data scraping off the net.
I would say the drugs test is far more invasive, but still allowable, as long as there is no compulsion to take the job, economic included.
But birds have cones that can see far greater. Some birds can see as low as 375 nm. This lets them see ultraviolet.
Actually the retina is capable of "seeing" UV, but it gets filtered out by the lens to protect it.
Impressionist painter Monet could see UV after a rather crude cataract operation, that why his colours went so Psychedelic.
That second link is NSFW. Unless you use Lynx.
I have a 2yr old and he thinks Train set is Sentient. So I don't really think this is any kind of breakthrough.
I remember feeling guilt about picking an unblemished apple over a bruised one. I must have developed my empathy skills fairly quickly though; only a few months later I was already trying to create a new species of flightless insects.
It seems that the membership of certain organisations are still in the infantile stages though.
10.000
Do we need that kind of precision? I could maybe understand 10.0 if you wanted to imply no half users (10.5). But what would constitute 10.001 anyway? Someone with a mole they wanted to remove? Or would they be 9.999 if they clipped their fingernails? In general I would think ISP's would only care about whole users. Just my American opinion.
Most European countries use the comma for the decimal point, and the full stop for the digit grouping, whereas English speaking countries do it the other way around. Case closed.
Did you know TI's educational division only accounted for 4% of their 2007 revenue?
They had a revenue of $13.83 billion in 2007;
$13,830,000,000 * 0.04 = $553,200,000 > "a killing"
If they can't learn anything that's not applicable, they either have mental problems, or were raised to value ignorance. If they have mental problems they need additional help - and you can't fix the parents. Many of them are idiots. The education system does need many changes, but being individually tailored to each student is not how. One important thing for them to learn is that not everybody teaches the same way. They can change.
The problem when I was at school was that we spent 90% percent of the time memorizing and regurgitating texts or doing repetitive examples, and about 10% percent of the time doing research and learning new things. I found the boredom of spending a week analysing the subtleties and subtexts of "pearl harbour" to be unbearable. I would have found, for example, studying the Paston letters to be fascinating, and I'm sure many in the class would have been the same. In my case it wasn't so much that I had difficulties learning "things that weren't applicable", but keeping interested when we were either studying such low-brow stuff or doing such a large amount of unchallenging textbook examples; well that and I think I'm a bit ADD.
Well if I found a strange device that looked like that I wouldn't take any chances. I'd probably head straight for the lake and throw it in. All this fear mongering by the media really makes me scared of bombs, see...
Put it under some politicians car, see how they like it.
don't tell me it's bender from the future who's got a human exo skin to loo human :)
Simulation of bowl movements is not necessary to hide within a human culture, in almost all cases these bodily functions are performed discreetly.
These guy's have built a pair that don't need crutches to support them, they look a little bulkier, but more stable.
We already have some of the strongest pesticide regulations in the world. Its not clear to me how pesticides play a role in this scenario.In an unrelated pesticide story larger US cities are currently reporting much higher incidences of bedbug infestation, largely blamed on the banning of DDT in 1972.
Bedbugs are fairly harmless, especially when compared to DDT; and there are other more suitable pesticides available. On the other hand I can understand using it against Mosquito's/Malaria. The various DDT bans do seem silly when the even more toxic organophosphates are in relatively unrestricted use.
Don't forget to wipe the security cameras.
You think they can't just find out when the pre-paid debit card was activated/used and look at the store videos?
It's very hard to do a taxable transaction these days without it ending up on video somewhere.
Wear a Burqa; unless of course you're in France.
Email your least favourite politicians and judges child porn, that'll solve that problem.
Maybe his girlfriend was 17?
Well it wouldn't be child porn then, would it?
Maybe she was fifteen, I guess that's a little dodgy, but not going to prison dodgy.
I to hate to buy my goods at stores which also sell animal-derived products.
I'll tell you what, I'm declaring this a double meat day in honor of you.
I'm going to have 2 venison steaks instead of one.
I don't feel the need to be AC.
Yeah, and I'm going to torture snails and humiliate frogs!
For extra flamebait, it's been suggested that around 10% of the French fatalities at Verdun in WW1 were "friendly fire". Traditionally the military has been more dangerous to its own side than the enemy; until modern medicine and transport, more soldiers got killed (by disease, climate, training and brutality) outside active warfare than in it. Cue realistic war games in which syphilis and typhoid are far more dangerous than enemy action.
I think they could probably put in a typhoid mini-game
The game play would be based around keeping up your fluid and electrolyte intake, whilst trying avoid shitting yourself to close to allies or water supplies.
yeah, doesn't he know that linux users base their sense of worth and value around how much cock they can suck?
Can you think of a better metric?
I used to vote along the 'realistic' least evil lines, but over the last decade I've come to regard voters in democracies as complicit in, and responsible for the policies of the ones we vote for. And so I cannot vote for any party whose actions I find unconscionable; I'd carry the stain of responsibility, no matter how small a part, for their actions on my conscience.
I might not get a candidate that wins these days, but at least I'm not getting betrayed by mine or made part of their crimes.
I have come to realise this too; luckily I have only voted once, so I haven't done to much damage with my tactical voting. The most intriguing thing to me is that the party I tactically tried to vote against, well they one the election, and in my eyes they are doing a better job than the previously incumbent party that I voted for.
There isn't really a party that matches my political views, but there are two that are "close enough" I suppose, both at opposite ends of the left-right spectrum.