I meant that the manufacturing process for photovoltaics is more complex than that of a stirling engine (from what I've read, I'm no engineer though), solar panels also contain a lot of heavy metals and such which you have to take into account. There's probably a place for both because as you say there's nothing simpler than sticking solar panels on a roof, no one will be doing that with one of these SunCatchers.
Stirling Energy System's SunCatcher uses this system to drive a stirling engine mounted on a parabolic mirror. It always seemed like a better, simpler solution than photovoltaic cells to me.
The age of masturbating another part of your body, as you aptly put it, only came much later and is largely a recent phenomenon.
A lot of smaller nude paintings hung in the private chambers of the wealthy for private "appreciation" which I sincerely doubt was entirely cerebral. This includes stuff like a naked Mona Lisa (the Monna Vanna) which just goes to show you how far back Rule 34 goes.
A million times this, the interface bites. I can't even find a search field which is pretty ironic. Why repreduce the limitations of meatspace ? A download link for the gigapixel images would be nice too.
Nothing will be able to replace the feeling you get when you're crammed into a huge crowd of smelly tourists standing in front of the Mona Lisa and thinking 'I came all the way out here for this ?!'
This firmware doesn't change any of this, so why get upset? If you wanted a general purpose computer that you control the software stack on, then buy a PC and roll your own Linux kernel.
It sets a bad precedent if (and time will tell if this is really the case) the box can be completely taken over by Sony from the outside. I'm not opposed to it per se but it should be clear on the box that they have the ability to do this otherwise it is an invasion of privacy. Sony isn't the copyright police they are a consumer goods company. Any poking around they do should be clearly and unambiguously agreed on by the customer.
But "they" don't leave it to the realm of fiction, they spend their lives furthering the cause of making it be true. They just arrogantly and with no evidence presume that it hasn't happened before.
Watch this entertaining video by James Randi, he'll explain better than I could why you can't prove a negative.
And the vision sold to the public is that it will be true; mankind will achieve mastery of the universe.
Is this vision merely a facade religiously given to the public so that science can be widely supported; or is it the aim of science?
You are right that you're describing isn't science, it's hope, faith in humanity and optimism. The beginning of our scientific age has coincided with a great upswing in these kinds of feelings although I think they are fading: I see lot more dystopias than utopias in science fiction these days. But the point is that they aren't connected to science per sé, they are just the way humanity reacted to the profound uplifting impact science had, and continues to have, on us collectively.
A minority of crackpots who take over schools and teach their flawed, simplistic and anti-scientific version of their religion to kids. Sounds like how the taliban got started.
don't imagine that we are the result of someone's efforts in those same endeavour; i.e. maybe god did create (organise) the world.
They might imagine it, many sci-fi authors have written creation-type stories for example. They just can't prove it and so they leave it in the realm of fiction.
Remember the '90's when everyone thought Japan was going to take over the world ? Yeah, that didn't happen either. I love these kinds of "inevitable" predictions for 20+ years from now, they are nearly always wrong.
I too want to be modded +5 Insightful for being a generalizing asshole who pigeonholes millions of people and their cultures into degrading *caricatures of themselves.
You must've been modded down by a muslim. They don't much like caricatures.
Believing in God doesn't mandate a belief in Creationism (though believing in Creationism requires the belief in God). Anyone whose faith is so fragile that it could be damaged by a rigorous class in evolutionary biology should go back to CCD or Sunday School or whatever their faith's equivalent is.
Let me tell you a story on how we deal with creationism in Belgium. I went to a catholic high school, no particular reason it was just the best in the area, and as part of the deal you get an hour of religious instruction each week. This class was taught by an old priest, couple years away from retirement. We had 1 (exactly one) creationist in our year, an evangelical christian, and one day he brings up creationism in this class and how a catholic school should treat the subject more seriously (there was literally just one sentence in biology class to the effect that "some people don't 'believe' in evolution" and that was it.) So this priest just looks at him and then laughs out loud in his face and it was like a cartoon where you see a character slowly become red from the bottom to the top of their face, like he was about the explode. You see this priest was a teacher and an intellectual and didn't have any problem reconciling all of those things with his faith and wasn't about to go about ignoring evidence to make this guy happy. These biology "teachers" in the US should be ashamed of themselves.
I'm a cynic I admit. Probably a lot of those supporters are indeed elsewhere in the arabic world and well-to-do (in a region where the vast majority are very poor as you rightly point out.) Combine that with the low barrier to entry and low risk of clicking a "like" button as opposed to getting out onto the street and protesting and I think it's not necessarily indicative of a broad pervasive movement of the people. I like the internet, it can bring people together and stir awareness, be used to organize people but I dislike the way things like this facebook page are given disproportionate importance in the media because it has the aura of hipness around it. The best way to form a real social movement comprised of a broad cross section of the population is probably still by going to the street.
They're just kids. Counting the 16 year old they arrested in Holland this makes 6. It's disgusting, there are real crimes being committed out there and here the police are chasing down some misguided pranksters/activivsts.
All these fancy color names are just invented to fill our news cycle and give us some interesting pseudo news to talk about. If we should've learned anything from the color-coded "revolutions" in eastern europe it's that these aren't actually revolutions, just one part of the elite (ab)using popular sentiment to take over from the other part. Of course that would take some actual analysis and intellectual honesty to report on, so we get the fantasy feel-good version.
Yes but a facebook page that could have been set up by one person in a basement somewhere isn't really proof of a real grass roots movement yet it gets reported on breathlessly by the international media. "Oh look they have a facebook page and are using teh twitterz, OMG their government is doomed !"
I'd be willing to bet that there is a 'core' of people on tpb and others that represent a bulk of the trusted content. I, like many others, tend to download off of tpb from the 'trusted' uploaders most of the time. Coincidentally, those also tend to the the torrents with the most seeders and leechers. When you factor in the fact that many of the big torrent sites mirror to the same torrents, this really doesn't sound too far fetched. Again, I think the 100 number is a little low, though...
I assume most of these "trusted uploaders" (like eztv on tpb for example) aren't individuals but a loose-knit group of people who know each other through the internet. Good luck taking a group like that down, it might be spread over a dozen countries or more.
Seems to work fine on my iPad and that's hardly a powerhouse. It finally fixes that bug where you jump to a random point on the page when you open a collapsed comment too.
I seem to recall a documentary on the BBC a couple of years back that stated as fact the british miner's union was infiltrated by either the police or MI5, can't remember which, back in the '70s-'80s. So like you say this doesn't seem like much of a shocker to me.
Don't forget about services which allow a way to use functionality offered by one application from within another. OSX has a lot of nice geek features, making the hate directed against it here sometimes all the more baffling.
That's the method the guy at Give Me Back My Google was using, but it apparently he can no longer get it to work reliably across all of Google's servers and he's given up updating. To bad too, it was a useful service and one Google should be offering themselves.
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I meant that the manufacturing process for photovoltaics is more complex than that of a stirling engine (from what I've read, I'm no engineer though), solar panels also contain a lot of heavy metals and such which you have to take into account. There's probably a place for both because as you say there's nothing simpler than sticking solar panels on a roof, no one will be doing that with one of these SunCatchers.
The 19-year old claims that his solar device has the intensity of 5,000 suns.
Yeah right! Sure!
Doesn't he know no one will care until it's over 9000 ?
Stirling Energy System's SunCatcher uses this system to drive a stirling engine mounted on a parabolic mirror. It always seemed like a better, simpler solution than photovoltaic cells to me.
The age of masturbating another part of your body, as you aptly put it, only came much later and is largely a recent phenomenon.
A lot of smaller nude paintings hung in the private chambers of the wealthy for private "appreciation" which I sincerely doubt was entirely cerebral. This includes stuff like a naked Mona Lisa (the Monna Vanna) which just goes to show you how far back Rule 34 goes.
A million times this, the interface bites. I can't even find a search field which is pretty ironic. Why repreduce the limitations of meatspace ? A download link for the gigapixel images would be nice too.
Nothing will be able to replace the feeling you get when you're crammed into a huge crowd of smelly tourists standing in front of the Mona Lisa and thinking 'I came all the way out here for this ?!'
This firmware doesn't change any of this, so why get upset? If you wanted a general purpose computer that you control the software stack on, then buy a PC and roll your own Linux kernel.
It sets a bad precedent if (and time will tell if this is really the case) the box can be completely taken over by Sony from the outside. I'm not opposed to it per se but it should be clear on the box that they have the ability to do this otherwise it is an invasion of privacy. Sony isn't the copyright police they are a consumer goods company. Any poking around they do should be clearly and unambiguously agreed on by the customer.
But "they" don't leave it to the realm of fiction, they spend their lives furthering the cause of making it be true. They just arrogantly and with no evidence presume that it hasn't happened before.
Watch this entertaining video by James Randi, he'll explain better than I could why you can't prove a negative.
And the vision sold to the public is that it will be true; mankind will achieve mastery of the universe.
Is this vision merely a facade religiously given to the public so that science can be widely supported; or is it the aim of science?
You are right that you're describing isn't science, it's hope, faith in humanity and optimism. The beginning of our scientific age has coincided with a great upswing in these kinds of feelings although I think they are fading: I see lot more dystopias than utopias in science fiction these days. But the point is that they aren't connected to science per sé, they are just the way humanity reacted to the profound uplifting impact science had, and continues to have, on us collectively.
Does that mean everything actually tastes like dinosaur ?
No harm in talking to an imaginary friend, it's when they start talking back you should get worried.
A minority of crackpots who take over schools and teach their flawed, simplistic and anti-scientific version of their religion to kids. Sounds like how the taliban got started.
don't imagine that we are the result of someone's efforts in those same endeavour; i.e. maybe god did create (organise) the world.
They might imagine it, many sci-fi authors have written creation-type stories for example. They just can't prove it and so they leave it in the realm of fiction.
Remember the '90's when everyone thought Japan was going to take over the world ? Yeah, that didn't happen either.
I love these kinds of "inevitable" predictions for 20+ years from now, they are nearly always wrong.
I too want to be modded +5 Insightful for being a generalizing asshole who pigeonholes millions of people and their cultures into degrading *caricatures of themselves.
You must've been modded down by a muslim. They don't much like caricatures.
Believing in God doesn't mandate a belief in Creationism (though believing in Creationism requires the belief in God). Anyone whose faith is so fragile that it could be damaged by a rigorous class in evolutionary biology should go back to CCD or Sunday School or whatever their faith's equivalent is.
Let me tell you a story on how we deal with creationism in Belgium. I went to a catholic high school, no particular reason it was just the best in the area, and as part of the deal you get an hour of religious instruction each week. This class was taught by an old priest, couple years away from retirement. We had 1 (exactly one) creationist in our year, an evangelical christian, and one day he brings up creationism in this class and how a catholic school should treat the subject more seriously (there was literally just one sentence in biology class to the effect that "some people don't 'believe' in evolution" and that was it.) So this priest just looks at him and then laughs out loud in his face and it was like a cartoon where you see a character slowly become red from the bottom to the top of their face, like he was about the explode. You see this priest was a teacher and an intellectual and didn't have any problem reconciling all of those things with his faith and wasn't about to go about ignoring evidence to make this guy happy. These biology "teachers" in the US should be ashamed of themselves.
I'm a cynic I admit. Probably a lot of those supporters are indeed elsewhere in the arabic world and well-to-do (in a region where the vast majority are very poor as you rightly point out.) Combine that with the low barrier to entry and low risk of clicking a "like" button as opposed to getting out onto the street and protesting and I think it's not necessarily indicative of a broad pervasive movement of the people. I like the internet, it can bring people together and stir awareness, be used to organize people but I dislike the way things like this facebook page are given disproportionate importance in the media because it has the aura of hipness around it. The best way to form a real social movement comprised of a broad cross section of the population is probably still by going to the street.
They're just kids. Counting the 16 year old they arrested in Holland this makes 6. It's disgusting, there are real crimes being committed out there and here the police are chasing down some misguided pranksters/activivsts.
All these fancy color names are just invented to fill our news cycle and give us some interesting pseudo news to talk about. If we should've learned anything from the color-coded "revolutions" in eastern europe it's that these aren't actually revolutions, just one part of the elite (ab)using popular sentiment to take over from the other part. Of course that would take some actual analysis and intellectual honesty to report on, so we get the fantasy feel-good version.
Yes but a facebook page that could have been set up by one person in a basement somewhere isn't really proof of a real grass roots movement yet it gets reported on breathlessly by the international media. "Oh look they have a facebook page and are using teh twitterz, OMG their government is doomed !"
I'd be willing to bet that there is a 'core' of people on tpb and others that represent a bulk of the trusted content. I, like many others, tend to download off of tpb from the 'trusted' uploaders most of the time. Coincidentally, those also tend to the the torrents with the most seeders and leechers. When you factor in the fact that many of the big torrent sites mirror to the same torrents, this really doesn't sound too far fetched. Again, I think the 100 number is a little low, though...
I assume most of these "trusted uploaders" (like eztv on tpb for example) aren't individuals but a loose-knit group of people who know each other through the internet. Good luck taking a group like that down, it might be spread over a dozen countries or more.
Seems to work fine on my iPad and that's hardly a powerhouse. It finally fixes that bug where you jump to a random point on the page when you open a collapsed comment too.
I seem to recall a documentary on the BBC a couple of years back that stated as fact the british miner's union was infiltrated by either the police or MI5, can't remember which, back in the '70s-'80s. So like you say this doesn't seem like much of a shocker to me.
Don't forget about services which allow a way to use functionality offered by one application from within another. OSX has a lot of nice geek features, making the hate directed against it here sometimes all the more baffling.
Mmm, tastes just like raisins
That's the method the guy at Give Me Back My Google was using, but it apparently he can no longer get it to work reliably across all of Google's servers and he's given up updating. To bad too, it was a useful service and one Google should be offering themselves.