Loki, the sinister Nordic God, speaks with a forked tongue in these matters. Sinister people, the word denoting left handedness, are known for their shadowy presence and ability to mettle in the affairs of others without ever being brought to justice. Bugs Bunny is an excellent representation of the type. Tribal shamanism carries overtones of word magic. Word magic believes action can be engendered, spookily and at a distance, by symbol manipulation. Thus words like fuck are forbidden in certain circles. It a psychotic delusional system that stems from shame based tribal societies where shame or guilt is tied to ideation arising from spiritual pollution. If you banish the guilty and their images you rid yourself of pollution
The interesting part, that all societies seem to willfully ignore, is the part played by the wily "successful" people in modern society. We still overvalue image and presence. People, especially political leaders, who can wield powerful symbols are, ridiculously, seen as powerful. The suit and tie, the winning smile, the self effacing embrace of the world media are nearly ubiquitous by such types. The problems arise when they're able to enslave a population in a mass delusion symbolic, shamanistic war with the symbols of evil and the most animalistic and base of our instincts overcome common sense and advancement.
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It's interesting that the idea of shills hasn't been better represented in the Internet business model. The psychology behind shills and mob motivation and mob behaviour is advanced compared to Barnum's dictum that "there's a sucker born every minute" and the barkers and shills who worked his midway freak shows. The ideas contained in the submission are child's play compared to the opportunities for exploitation the Internet offers. Corporations are legal entities that play hide and seek with morality, ethics and the law by Wizard of Oz advertising pyrotechnics and repeatedly playing off the tribal sentiments of group think individuals who turn a blind eye, (and lose an I), to the wrong doings of a hierarchically higher class entities. There's an anthropological idea about tribal guilt that manifests itself in victims found with inordinate numbers of wounds thought to have been inflected by multiple perpetrators with the idea of spreading the guilt of the crime over the tribe. Something similar functions in mobs and fanboi, product idolation. We hide in the tribe. We're secure in the tribe and we protect the image of the tribe to ensure our own protection. If you can speak for the tribe, or pretend to, and thus motivate the tribe groupthink then you're a winner, or, your product is.
>daunting to newbies confused by its non-intuitive menu structure and restrictive content hierarchy
Well, we've got to nip this sort of thing in the bud, otherwise, it's bound to start popping up all over the place, and we certainly don't want to see that happen.
I run Windows XP and Vista for gaming and vids but more to the point I'm always happy to buy a new Windows based Quake version. It's my way of saying thanks. Although either the whole FPS thing is getting kinda old, or, maybe it's just me:(
The human immune system is in part adaptive. It learns, or, acquires a repertoire of effective actions against invading antigens. The black hats drive PC and Internet security. In a sense their critical doubt run amok, but, as such, push innovative responses. In the late 90's the Internet was alive with crackers and script kiddies. There was a one time a community of reverse engineering that "boasted" a University. I'm not saying they're good. There a bad pain in the ass but I'd rather give their kind enough room on the Internet to allow white hats to keep the best possible eye on them. How lame would PC security be without being incessantly tested?
Thanks for the response. It reminded me of the late, Danish physicist, Per Bak's narrative, (IIRC in his book describing his 'sandpile model of self-organized criticality') about the quick and dirty maths physicists employ much to the chagrin of mathematicians. I took the word formal to have a connotation more akin to maximized rigor.
I'm probably going to have to revisit 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences' by Eugene Wigner and 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics' by R. W. HAMMING. Both articles spring to mind in light of your post. One of the two contains the phrase "long chains of close reasoning", a favourite of mine, but also suggestive of why I took the use of the term formal to imply the greatest possible rigor.
Remember the end of 'War of the Worlds'? IIRC, at least in the old film, the narrator speaks of God in His wisdom populating our little blue planet with microbes that defeat an invading alien horde that we with all our military might and technology can't stand against. If, of the 5 (Pollution) Horsemen of the Apocalypse, pestilence should be the big winner then the irony of it all playing off the end of the 'War of the Worlds' will be a sauce so rich and thick in irony as to be perfectly suited to Pestilence's feast.
Certainly globalization plays a part, but, perhaps, more importantly, we're poking big holes in the biomass. Threatened species adapt and the little microbes whose hosts were, in some cases, shuffling around the globe, and, in others, driving to extinction have to adapt. Adaption may entail making the leap to a new species and, along with our livestock, we're the most like landing spot.
The first test of an intelligent species is ensuring its survival. We now adequately know the limitations of our biosphere, we know its interconnectedness, and yet, we can't act rationally. There are now 6 billion of us, if you accept that there will be 9 billion then I hold that there will be 12 billion before we have international laws in place to stop us from destroying ourselves. 12 billion is just my loose estimate based on current numbers and the projected growth in the face of our current plight. Given our natures are a blend, of greed, lust, fear and shame tempered by altruism, and, further given our current and projected circumstances I think our best chance is runaway economic growth spinning off R&D that might mitigate against our most pressing problems. If we've any safety to look forward to it's ironically in numbers because the talent necessary to solve the problems we face doesn't seem to stem directly from industrialization or advanced infrastructure, rather, it's the small percentage who can manage and extend our knowledge base.
Globalization, rabid dog competition and government interference don't aide in gaining a clear picture of off shoring jobs, or, any one county's standing and future. What remains evident is that English is the lingua franca of today's world and the best education, as a general rule, are still to be had at English speaking Universities. Certainly countries like Japan, France, Germany and others hold their own in their mother tongues, but English rules. As long as developing and, even, competitive countries continue to send their children to be educated in English speaking and democratic countries then, I venture, the R&D and innovations, will continue to originate in the same countries that house the prevalent Universities. Freedom of speech and flourishing ideologies like FOSS are critical to the exchange of ideas that drive the best in education and innovation. As Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others". And, as nature teaches, faster nervous systems eat slower nervous systems, and, democracies by dint of lower, or, less barriers foster faster nervous systems.
ok, so any maths is necessarily formal, so the formal part is redundant and the analogy is like a correspondence mapping... i think therefore i'm confused.
can an analogy be formal? is a mathematical analogy a mathematical description? an explanation can be said to be formal; but can the same be said of a description? does analogy have a special maths meaning? i dunno, i got the rest tho
>Seems unreasonable to me. You're out in public. People can see you
There's a world of difference between seeing someone in public, on the move, going about their business, and, a static image of them caught by another and posted in a public forum.
>Extending the argument, property has value, and public posting of a property's image could impact on the property's value
>Just because a particular action can affect the value of your property, that doesn't mean that you have a legal right not to have that action taken
Again, I was framing my statement in terms of a static image, taken and posted in a public forum. A fair amount of property laws speak directly to actions that can affect the value of a person's property, especially real estate. Two main, abstracted principles in property valuation deal with linkages and externalities. Linkages are things like access and egress while externalities are things like pollution, while neither especially speaks to my post the ideas speak directly to the idea that actions affecting property values are subject to scrutiny.
>Huh? If someone's stalking you, and they know your address, you think they won't be able to get a photo of your house?
Someone stalking you, (I don't think you have to worry), who takes a picture of your house is at least doing something attendant to criminal activity. Making photos available of the home of someone who is being stalked, has been stalked, or might be stalked, isn't necessarily a bad thing but it too should be subject to scrutiny.
>I actually find your overly expansive view of property rights a lot scarier than anything google is doing.
It's my parents' fault, they paid for my undergrad degree in 'Urban Land Economics' which centres on real estate and real estate laws, including privacy issues.
In Canada, at least not long ago when I was still an avid photographer, permission had to be asked of an individual before h/is/er picture was taken. I think it's reasonable that a person has a right to vet images of them that reach the public. Extending the argument, property has value, and public posting of a property's image could impact on the property's value. Not to mention weird stuff like stalkers. Google's gone totally Kafka. It's metamorphosed into something you wouldn't want to wake and find on your living room floor, only Google wouldn't fit of course, as it now looms larger than 'The Castle', more like Gormenghast. It's kinda tempting to see Google in Baroque, Gothic terms. A grotesque parody begins to writhe in fetal form.
Chinese civilization can be said to have begun about 1500+ BCE, but, as always, it depends on the criteria. Early Chinese civilizations didn't use stone to the same extent as Mediterranean area early civilizations so the artifacts aren't as easy to come by. The problem I have with trying to think in terms of China's position over the near future is that I'm unsure to what extent China is a coalesced entity or a fiction. It's history is one of amalgamation by various warring peoples and even today there are signs of unrest in Muslim areas. Written Chinese is interesting in that the characters, though far too numerous, allow for disparate spoken dialects to share the same printed material. E.O. Wilson wrote that China is the test case for the modern world surviving over population and pollution; but I can't see 'China' as it is today being the China that will come out of the wash of its current state.
"Although most of the DNA sequence is identical in all humans, forensic scientists scan 18 regions on the sequence that vary from person to person, allowing the identification of a single person with extremely high accuracy."
"DNA is in many cases what breaks trial suspects and allows their conviction 'beyond reasonable doubt,'" said DNA analysis expert Adam Friedmann, dean of the Marine Science School at Israel's Ruppin Academic Centre."
"DNA profiling is an excellent technique that is improving by leaps and bounds," he said."
"There is nearly a 100 percent accuracy in identification," he said, adding that there is less and less need to bring other evidence linking a person to a crime scene."
"Courts in Israel, the United States and elsewhere are relying more and more on DNA forensic evidence to close cases," according to Friedmann."
Granted that the article is addressing a forensic method, the spirit of the above quotes are disturbing. "...there is less and less need to bring other evidence linking a person to a crime scene." Jeez! I thought one of the principles of a court hearing was to bring as much evidence as possible to bear. Also the article doesn't seem to mention the method. I presume profiling implies a statistical method and, as such, doesn't warrant the close minded tone of the quotes.
Forensics does have a really cool idea called "the forensic inference principle", which infers that... "a cause must have at least as much structure as the effect"(loosely recalled from 'Fins into Limbs')... the inference that "the structure of the event reflects the structure of the cause" is one of those rules of thumb that's handy to keep in mind.
Humour shouldn't have a rigorous, robust and elegant definition. Humour is better served being defined reflexively, funny is just funny. Frame Analysis gives a pretty good working analysis of humour as breaking frame, or, context, or, maybe just wind. Mark Twain's scene of a loud fart in church is pretty good humour, more so because, for many people, myself not included, farts and religious ceremonies don't go together. A good story is something very different than good humour because a good tale has to be engaging and cogent and both are matters of rhetoric and rhetoric is complex and touches upon matters of acquired taste. Good art is a work of genius and rightly beyond analysis.
Addiction and adaptation are two concepts that play well off one another. Addiction has been likened to being in a dissociative state wherein, the addict confuses the gas pedal with the break. Adaptation is generally an characteristic that aides in survival and reproduction. Mammals, such as ourselves, developed hearing ranges and vocalizations that were keen adaptations. Overall, animals seem to develop communication adaptations specific to their kind, and such adaptations appear to have paid off. Social communication, speech and, most recently, writing are the hallmarks of our species. Along with bipedal locomotion they pretty much define us. The Internet is (was) a highly sophisticated communication channel, an extension of the core characteristics that allow us to dominate the planet. Practised, frequent, even habitual use of the Internet is characteristic of a progressive, well adapted person. The degradation of other, more antiquated communications skills, isn't a big issue as those skills are nearly universally reinforced and at hand should they again become the dominant, more sophisticated mode of communication. People "addicted" to the Internet are maladapted, but not in the way they think they are.
To the cutting point of the bleeding edge, your intellect is a weapon, the most potent weapon you now have. Learn to use it as a concealed weapon. Your post suggests someone in their 30s or even older, but if you really are a young student and as bright as your post suggests you to be then 'welcome to the arena'. I've had my face busted open, head broken open, bones broken, been groped and worse, and, I'm a middle class brat with a genius level IQ. Take the soother out of your mouth, get off the E and learn to take multiple punches. It can only get worse.
I believe we should have a hunting season on isms (ists), there's far too many of them and they need to be culled.;) Have you read Damasio's books? Just as a different way of looking back at the blank stares.
Thanks for pointing that out. By the time I'd sorted through it all I'd had a good laugh. I readily admit my postings to be as risky and careless as rattling an old pinball machine in the hopes of making a few undeserved points.
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Loki, the sinister Nordic God, speaks with a forked tongue in these matters. Sinister people, the word denoting left handedness, are known for their shadowy presence and ability to mettle in the affairs of others without ever being brought to justice. Bugs Bunny is an excellent representation of the type. Tribal shamanism carries overtones of word magic. Word magic believes action can be engendered, spookily and at a distance, by symbol manipulation. Thus words like fuck are forbidden in certain circles. It a psychotic delusional system that stems from shame based tribal societies where shame or guilt is tied to ideation arising from spiritual pollution. If you banish the guilty and their images you rid yourself of pollution
The interesting part, that all societies seem to willfully ignore, is the part played by the wily "successful" people in modern society. We still overvalue image and presence. People, especially political leaders, who can wield powerful symbols are, ridiculously, seen as powerful. The suit and tie, the winning smile, the self effacing embrace of the world media are nearly ubiquitous by such types. The problems arise when they're able to enslave a population in a mass delusion symbolic, shamanistic war with the symbols of evil and the most animalistic and base of our instincts overcome common sense and advancement.
It's interesting that the idea of shills hasn't been better represented in the Internet business model. The psychology behind shills and mob motivation and mob behaviour is advanced compared to Barnum's dictum that "there's a sucker born every minute" and the barkers and shills who worked his midway freak shows. The ideas contained in the submission are child's play compared to the opportunities for exploitation the Internet offers. Corporations are legal entities that play hide and seek with morality, ethics and the law by Wizard of Oz advertising pyrotechnics and repeatedly playing off the tribal sentiments of group think individuals who turn a blind eye, (and lose an I), to the wrong doings of a hierarchically higher class entities. There's an anthropological idea about tribal guilt that manifests itself in victims found with inordinate numbers of wounds thought to have been inflected by multiple perpetrators with the idea of spreading the guilt of the crime over the tribe. Something similar functions in mobs and fanboi, product idolation. We hide in the tribe. We're secure in the tribe and we protect the image of the tribe to ensure our own protection. If you can speak for the tribe, or pretend to, and thus motivate the tribe groupthink then you're a winner, or, your product is.
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Well, we've got to nip this sort of thing in the bud, otherwise, it's bound to start popping up all over the place, and we certainly don't want to see that happen.
I run Windows XP and Vista for gaming and vids but more to the point I'm always happy to buy a new Windows based Quake version. It's my way of saying thanks. Although either the whole FPS thing is getting kinda old, or, maybe it's just me :(
The human immune system is in part adaptive. It learns, or, acquires a repertoire of effective actions against invading antigens. The black hats drive PC and Internet security. In a sense their critical doubt run amok, but, as such, push innovative responses. In the late 90's the Internet was alive with crackers and script kiddies. There was a one time a community of reverse engineering that "boasted" a University. I'm not saying they're good. There a bad pain in the ass but I'd rather give their kind enough room on the Internet to allow white hats to keep the best possible eye on them. How lame would PC security be without being incessantly tested?
I'm probably going to have to revisit 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences' by Eugene Wigner and 'The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics' by R. W. HAMMING. Both articles spring to mind in light of your post. One of the two contains the phrase "long chains of close reasoning", a favourite of mine, but also suggestive of why I took the use of the term formal to imply the greatest possible rigor.
yore stew pud i'm too tired to critique your post :(
Certainly globalization plays a part, but, perhaps, more importantly, we're poking big holes in the biomass. Threatened species adapt and the little microbes whose hosts were, in some cases, shuffling around the globe, and, in others, driving to extinction have to adapt. Adaption may entail making the leap to a new species and, along with our livestock, we're the most like landing spot.
The first test of an intelligent species is ensuring its survival. We now adequately know the limitations of our biosphere, we know its interconnectedness, and yet, we can't act rationally. There are now 6 billion of us, if you accept that there will be 9 billion then I hold that there will be 12 billion before we have international laws in place to stop us from destroying ourselves. 12 billion is just my loose estimate based on current numbers and the projected growth in the face of our current plight. Given our natures are a blend, of greed, lust, fear and shame tempered by altruism, and, further given our current and projected circumstances I think our best chance is runaway economic growth spinning off R&D that might mitigate against our most pressing problems. If we've any safety to look forward to it's ironically in numbers because the talent necessary to solve the problems we face doesn't seem to stem directly from industrialization or advanced infrastructure, rather, it's the small percentage who can manage and extend our knowledge base.
Globalization, rabid dog competition and government interference don't aide in gaining a clear picture of off shoring jobs, or, any one county's standing and future. What remains evident is that English is the lingua franca of today's world and the best education, as a general rule, are still to be had at English speaking Universities. Certainly countries like Japan, France, Germany and others hold their own in their mother tongues, but English rules. As long as developing and, even, competitive countries continue to send their children to be educated in English speaking and democratic countries then, I venture, the R&D and innovations, will continue to originate in the same countries that house the prevalent Universities. Freedom of speech and flourishing ideologies like FOSS are critical to the exchange of ideas that drive the best in education and innovation. As Churchill said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others". And, as nature teaches, faster nervous systems eat slower nervous systems, and, democracies by dint of lower, or, less barriers foster faster nervous systems.
ok, so any maths is necessarily formal, so the formal part is redundant and the analogy is like a correspondence mapping... i think therefore i'm confused.
can an analogy be formal? is a mathematical analogy a mathematical description? an explanation can be said to be formal; but can the same be said of a description? does analogy have a special maths meaning? i dunno, i got the rest tho
>Seems unreasonable to me. You're out in public. People can see you
There's a world of difference between seeing someone in public, on the move, going about their business, and, a static image of them caught by another and posted in a public forum.
>Extending the argument, property has value, and public posting of a property's image could impact on the property's value
>Just because a particular action can affect the value of your property, that doesn't mean that you have a legal right not to have that action taken
Again, I was framing my statement in terms of a static image, taken and posted in a public forum. A fair amount of property laws speak directly to actions that can affect the value of a person's property, especially real estate. Two main, abstracted principles in property valuation deal with linkages and externalities. Linkages are things like access and egress while externalities are things like pollution, while neither especially speaks to my post the ideas speak directly to the idea that actions affecting property values are subject to scrutiny.
>Huh? If someone's stalking you, and they know your address, you think they won't be able to get a photo of your house?
Someone stalking you, (I don't think you have to worry), who takes a picture of your house is at least doing something attendant to criminal activity. Making photos available of the home of someone who is being stalked, has been stalked, or might be stalked, isn't necessarily a bad thing but it too should be subject to scrutiny.
>I actually find your overly expansive view of property rights a lot scarier than anything google is doing.
It's my parents' fault, they paid for my undergrad degree in 'Urban Land Economics' which centres on real estate and real estate laws, including privacy issues.
In Canada, at least not long ago when I was still an avid photographer, permission had to be asked of an individual before h/is/er picture was taken. I think it's reasonable that a person has a right to vet images of them that reach the public. Extending the argument, property has value, and public posting of a property's image could impact on the property's value. Not to mention weird stuff like stalkers. Google's gone totally Kafka. It's metamorphosed into something you wouldn't want to wake and find on your living room floor, only Google wouldn't fit of course, as it now looms larger than 'The Castle', more like Gormenghast. It's kinda tempting to see Google in Baroque, Gothic terms. A grotesque parody begins to writhe in fetal form.
Chinese civilization can be said to have begun about 1500+ BCE, but, as always, it depends on the criteria. Early Chinese civilizations didn't use stone to the same extent as Mediterranean area early civilizations so the artifacts aren't as easy to come by. The problem I have with trying to think in terms of China's position over the near future is that I'm unsure to what extent China is a coalesced entity or a fiction. It's history is one of amalgamation by various warring peoples and even today there are signs of unrest in Muslim areas. Written Chinese is interesting in that the characters, though far too numerous, allow for disparate spoken dialects to share the same printed material. E.O. Wilson wrote that China is the test case for the modern world surviving over population and pollution; but I can't see 'China' as it is today being the China that will come out of the wash of its current state.
Not if you're on the receiving end. Wing Master double bar pump w/ a SSG load, best of all possible worlds.
Peace Out:)
"Although most of the DNA sequence is identical in all humans, forensic scientists scan 18 regions on the sequence that vary from person to person, allowing the identification of a single person with extremely high accuracy."
"DNA is in many cases what breaks trial suspects and allows their conviction 'beyond reasonable doubt,'" said DNA analysis expert Adam Friedmann, dean of the Marine Science School at Israel's Ruppin Academic Centre."
"DNA profiling is an excellent technique that is improving by leaps and bounds," he said."
"There is nearly a 100 percent accuracy in identification," he said, adding that there is less and less need to bring other evidence linking a person to a crime scene."
"Courts in Israel, the United States and elsewhere are relying more and more on DNA forensic evidence to close cases," according to Friedmann."
Granted that the article is addressing a forensic method, the spirit of the above quotes are disturbing. "...there is less and less need to bring other evidence linking a person to a crime scene." Jeez! I thought one of the principles of a court hearing was to bring as much evidence as possible to bear. Also the article doesn't seem to mention the method. I presume profiling implies a statistical method and, as such, doesn't warrant the close minded tone of the quotes.
Forensics does have a really cool idea called "the forensic inference principle", which infers that... "a cause must have at least as much structure as the effect"(loosely recalled from 'Fins into Limbs')... the inference that "the structure of the event reflects the structure of the cause" is one of those rules of thumb that's handy to keep in mind.
Anyone who needs more than a .25 cal is a spray 'n pray whoose ;)
1st of all ya gotta salvage the cool and powerful magnets then the platters are pretty easy to destroy.
Humour shouldn't have a rigorous, robust and elegant definition. Humour is better served being defined reflexively, funny is just funny. Frame Analysis gives a pretty good working analysis of humour as breaking frame, or, context, or, maybe just wind. Mark Twain's scene of a loud fart in church is pretty good humour, more so because, for many people, myself not included, farts and religious ceremonies don't go together. A good story is something very different than good humour because a good tale has to be engaging and cogent and both are matters of rhetoric and rhetoric is complex and touches upon matters of acquired taste. Good art is a work of genius and rightly beyond analysis.
Addiction and adaptation are two concepts that play well off one another. Addiction has been likened to being in a dissociative state wherein, the addict confuses the gas pedal with the break. Adaptation is generally an characteristic that aides in survival and reproduction. Mammals, such as ourselves, developed hearing ranges and vocalizations that were keen adaptations. Overall, animals seem to develop communication adaptations specific to their kind, and such adaptations appear to have paid off. Social communication, speech and, most recently, writing are the hallmarks of our species. Along with bipedal locomotion they pretty much define us. The Internet is (was) a highly sophisticated communication channel, an extension of the core characteristics that allow us to dominate the planet. Practised, frequent, even habitual use of the Internet is characteristic of a progressive, well adapted person. The degradation of other, more antiquated communications skills, isn't a big issue as those skills are nearly universally reinforced and at hand should they again become the dominant, more sophisticated mode of communication. People "addicted" to the Internet are maladapted, but not in the way they think they are.
To the cutting point of the bleeding edge, your intellect is a weapon, the most potent weapon you now have. Learn to use it as a concealed weapon. Your post suggests someone in their 30s or even older, but if you really are a young student and as bright as your post suggests you to be then 'welcome to the arena'. I've had my face busted open, head broken open, bones broken, been groped and worse, and, I'm a middle class brat with a genius level IQ. Take the soother out of your mouth, get off the E and learn to take multiple punches. It can only get worse.
I believe we should have a hunting season on isms (ists), there's far too many of them and they need to be culled. ;) Have you read Damasio's books? Just as a different way of looking back at the blank stares.
We're fucked and we've fucked their future. I don't think that one's on the list, but, I'm guessing, it's something any bright grad will know.
Thanks for pointing that out. By the time I'd sorted through it all I'd had a good laugh. I readily admit my postings to be as risky and careless as rattling an old pinball machine in the hopes of making a few undeserved points.