I enjoy this kind of research. It's always interesting to further our understanding of the complexity of life, and all the weird, nigh inexplicable stuff it entails.
However, it seems a lot of readers are jumping to conclusions not even the researchers have come to; We still have, essentially, no understanding of what consciousness is, where it come from, or where it goes during these sorts of episodes. Hopefully we'll figure it out one day, and have an even greater understanding of our universe.
I usually try to stay out of these metaphysical-themed debates; having personally experienced a fair amount of strange shit that current scientific knowledge cannot explain, my thoughts in this arena tend to be less than popular... something I've always found ironic, and a bit sad. I mean, if we're supposed to be a community who believes in science, why would anyone dismiss a hypothesis or concept out-of-hand, without proper experimentation and research?
Oh, well, I went and said it anyway. Let fly with the down-mods, Philistines and Hypocrites, as I've broached topics you refuse to even consider, let alone debate intellectually.
And this will be coming to the USA also, because they will have to jack up utility rates, just to please the enviro-nuts in the USA.
I hate to break this to ya, Chief, but the jacking of utility rates has far less to do with "enviro-nuts" than it does greedy utility company executives.
Ummm... how am I supposed to take notes if I skip the class alltogether?
Take someone else's? How about the teacher's? Surely you realize he already has notes and could make copies of all he is going to write to all students. As a matter of fact, a lot of teachers do it, it's called duplicated notes.
You must've missed the part where I talked about writing my notes. See, it's not reading them that ingrains the information, but writing it down for myself. Otherwise, yea, fuck paying for class, I'd just buy the teacher's edition of the book.
That makes no sense. Whatsoever.
I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do if you can't understand simple English.
Says the guy who completely misinterpreted my plainly written post. Pot, kettle.
Word of advice, dude - try to actually understand what people say in their responses, before you get all butthurt and reactive. Not everyone who replies to your posts is taking a shot at you.
Not everyone learns the same; I find that I don't fully understand a topic until I've written my notes, looked at them, and gone "oh, shit, now it makes sense!"
How about you skip class altogether and just read notes then?
Ummm... how am I supposed to take notes if I skip the class alltogether?
The reason we hold class is because the interesting thing isn't the notes, it's the class itself.
A class is made for you the understand the subject topic. Only note something once you've understood it.
Some students still haven't grasped this, which is astounding.
Not everyone learns the same; I find that I don't fully understand a topic until I've written my notes, looked at them, and gone "oh, shit, now it makes sense!"
"If cookies are eliminated, it is clear to us that consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience."
1) No, you dicks will just come up with some new way to spy on us, and we'll come up with a new workaround. So it goes.
2) I'll believe that targeted advertising delivers a 'relevant and diverse experience' the day the ads show me stuff I want to buy but haven't yet, instead of stuff I just fucking bought; as it stands, most "targeted ads" are essentially a redux of the contents of your last Amazon shopping cart.
Because military law applies to civilians. Ummm. No.
In the military you're required to have proper respect for the chain of command,
You're also supposed to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies, but I guess that one (which is actually part of the oath) isn't taken as seriously?
There's a link in TFA that lists all the carriers who have verified that they will allow the Firefox OS devices on their network. I listed them here because I know a lot of people can't be bothered to RTFA, let alone any subsequent links.
Given the bands supported, it will run on AT&T 2G and 3G, T-Mobile on 2G plus 3G in those areas where T-Mobile has re-farmed their 1900Mhz spectrum
Yea, but just because the math works out doesn't mean you're going to land on Mars. Or something like that, but clever.
>> Go to public meeting when the ELECTED Congressmen/women who write these laws. Question then send a clear message change it or be removed from office.
Recently, the Tea Party folks tried this and the Occupy folks tried this. Result? Universal derision from major media, and specific derision from the opposite party's political leaders. Almost no changes to the insulated agencies or policies that ticked off ordinary people in the first place.
Don't forget that the one group who didn't have the foresight to protest armed got the living shit beaten out of them.
How is FISA unconstitutional? Congress was imbued with the Constitutional power to "constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court" in article 1, section 8. The FISA court is an inferior court and thus squarely falls under the powers of Congress to create.
Uh, if the FISA is an inferior court, why do they get away with civil rights violations that even the SCOTUS couldn't?
Or offering to visit the company execs in prison when the feds put them there for running their mouths to the press?
Doesn't the mere notion that a person could be incarcerated for talking to the press kinda indicate that there's something horrifically fucked-up about the situation?
The Constitution guarantees a right to free expression, and a right to a free press, so where the fuck does this idea that it's reasonable to take away someone's freedom for sharing information come from?
In other news, the SCOTUS recently ruled that it's perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. WTF, my fellow Americans... WTF.
18. WHAT IF YOUR CAR IS STOLEN? If your Car is stolen, we can try to locate it. Before we try to locate it, you’ll need to provide satisfactory identification, and the police must be treating the Car as stolen. Generally, we will only provide location information about stolen Cars to the police; however, in cases of crises or emergencies, we may, in our own judgment, provide you with information about the general area of your Car without police involvement. OnStar may be notified by an early warning system that your Car may have been stolen and, in some cases, you may also be notified by OnStar. We don’t have to continue to try to locate your Car after 48 hours from the time you first report it stolen, and we can’t guarantee that we’ll find it. We also aren’t required to try to find your Car for the purpose of locating someone.
Your Car may have Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability that enables OnStar to slow down your stolen Car remotely and/or the capability that enables OnStar to stop your Car from starting to assist law enforcement in its recovery. OnStar may also slow down your Car or stop your Car from starting if required to comply with legal requirements, including valid court orders in criminal investigations and to protect the safety of you or others.
If you don’t want Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability on your Car, you must contact OnStar by pressing the blue OnStar button in your Car and request that this capability be disabled. If you choose to disable this capability, it will not be available under any circumstances and can only be re-enabled at an authorized car dealership at your expense.
Emphasis added to highlight the scary.
Now, where the heck is that OnStar module in my truck, and how to remove/disable it...
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I enjoy this kind of research. It's always interesting to further our understanding of the complexity of life, and all the weird, nigh inexplicable stuff it entails.
However, it seems a lot of readers are jumping to conclusions not even the researchers have come to; We still have, essentially, no understanding of what consciousness is, where it come from, or where it goes during these sorts of episodes. Hopefully we'll figure it out one day, and have an even greater understanding of our universe.
I usually try to stay out of these metaphysical-themed debates; having personally experienced a fair amount of strange shit that current scientific knowledge cannot explain, my thoughts in this arena tend to be less than popular... something I've always found ironic, and a bit sad. I mean, if we're supposed to be a community who believes in science, why would anyone dismiss a hypothesis or concept out-of-hand, without proper experimentation and research?
Oh, well, I went and said it anyway. Let fly with the down-mods, Philistines and Hypocrites, as I've broached topics you refuse to even consider, let alone debate intellectually.
"There are three sides to every story: your side, my side, and the truth."
RT provides a nice counter-point to the Western propaganda machine.
u mad that one outlet disagrees with the rest?
Personally, I'm a bit surprised at how many people fall for that whole faux adversarial relationship.
Substance-wise, all mainstream US news outlets are identical, in that they're completely lacking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor#Glow-in-the-dark_toys
Just a thought; might help diffuse light in the daytime, as well as providing some light after dark.
Whether or not the materials to make such a modification are readily available in third-world countries I cannot speculate on.
And this will be coming to the USA also, because they will have to jack up utility rates, just to
please the enviro-nuts in the USA.
I hate to break this to ya, Chief, but the jacking of utility rates has far less to do with "enviro-nuts" than it does greedy utility company executives.
Those flimsy plastic water/coke bottles *will* leak eventually, and ruin whatever flooring/furniture/equipment happens to be underneath them.
You mean, dirt? Did you look at the pictures of the places they are installing them?
Right, because in poor, third-world countries, everyone has the exact same stuff in their homes, and in the exact same places.
tl:dr, it's a legitimate concern.
Take someone else's?
How about the teacher's? Surely you realize he already has notes and could make copies of all he is going to write to all students. As a matter of fact, a lot of teachers do it, it's called duplicated notes.
You must've missed the part where I talked about writing my notes. See, it's not reading them that ingrains the information, but writing it down for myself. Otherwise, yea, fuck paying for class, I'd just buy the teacher's edition of the book.
I'm sorry, there is nothing I can do if you can't understand simple English.
Says the guy who completely misinterpreted my plainly written post. Pot, kettle.
Word of advice, dude - try to actually understand what people say in their responses, before you get all butthurt and reactive. Not everyone who replies to your posts is taking a shot at you.
How about you skip class altogether and just read notes then?
Ummm... how am I supposed to take notes if I skip the class alltogether?
The reason we hold class is because the interesting thing isn't the notes, it's the class itself.
That makes no sense. Whatsoever.
Totally agree with this post, just wanted to offer up a couple resources:
Learn shorthand.
http://www.alysion.org/handy/althandwriting.htm
I always used graph paper... You can download images and print your own
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/plain/
A class is made for you the understand the subject topic.
Only note something once you've understood it.
Some students still haven't grasped this, which is astounding.
Not everyone learns the same; I find that I don't fully understand a topic until I've written my notes, looked at them, and gone "oh, shit, now it makes sense!"
Many educational facilities haven't grasped this.
He himself later apologized for lying to congress:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/07/02/james-clapper-apologizes-for-lying-to-congress-about-nsa-surveillance-clearly-erroneous/
So he definitely lied.
Yet he was never charged with a crime.
I suppose this sets the precedent that all you have to do after committing a capital felony is give a half-assed apology, and you're off scot-free.
"If cookies are eliminated, it is clear to us that consumers will get a less relevant and diverse Internet experience."
1) No, you dicks will just come up with some new way to spy on us, and we'll come up with a new workaround. So it goes.
2) I'll believe that targeted advertising delivers a 'relevant and diverse experience' the day the ads show me stuff I want to buy but haven't yet, instead of stuff I just fucking bought; as it stands, most "targeted ads" are essentially a redux of the contents of your last Amazon shopping cart.
Because military law applies to civilians. Ummm. No.
In the military you're required to have proper respect for the chain of command,
You're also supposed to defend the Constitution from domestic enemies, but I guess that one (which is actually part of the oath) isn't taken as seriously?
Well, good luck finding any new employees to work for the government ever then. After hearing this, nobody will bother to apply.
You might be surprised at how many people would be willing to have their mouths sewn shut, in exchange for money and power.
Free speech and beard
Both must be feared
The will of the few
Owns what you do
Burma Shave
That.... that is actually damn insightful.
What are you talking about?
There's a link in TFA that lists all the carriers who have verified that they will allow the Firefox OS devices on their network. I listed them here because I know a lot of people can't be bothered to RTFA, let alone any subsequent links.
Given the bands supported, it will run on AT&T 2G and 3G, T-Mobile on 2G plus 3G in those areas where T-Mobile has re-farmed their 1900Mhz spectrum
Yea, but just because the math works out doesn't mean you're going to land on Mars. Or something like that, but clever.
What group was that? Google doesn't turn up much.....
Dude, you had to Google it? Your deductive reasoning skills need work, young Padawan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morality
>> Go to public meeting when the ELECTED Congressmen/women who write these laws. Question then send a clear message change it or be removed from office.
Recently, the Tea Party folks tried this and the Occupy folks tried this. Result? Universal derision from major media, and specific derision from the opposite party's political leaders. Almost no changes to the insulated agencies or policies that ticked off ordinary people in the first place.
Don't forget that the one group who didn't have the foresight to protest armed got the living shit beaten out of them.
How is FISA unconstitutional? Congress was imbued with the Constitutional power to "constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court" in article 1, section 8. The FISA court is an inferior court and thus squarely falls under the powers of Congress to create.
Uh, if the FISA is an inferior court, why do they get away with civil rights violations that even the SCOTUS couldn't?
Or offering to visit the company execs in prison when the feds put them there for running their mouths to the press?
Doesn't the mere notion that a person could be incarcerated for talking to the press kinda indicate that there's something horrifically fucked-up about the situation?
The Constitution guarantees a right to free expression, and a right to a free press, so where the fuck does this idea that it's reasonable to take away someone's freedom for sharing information come from?
In other news, the SCOTUS recently ruled that it's perfectly legal to lie in a political ad. WTF, my fellow Americans... WTF.
There's also the following, from OnStar's ToS:
18. WHAT IF YOUR CAR IS STOLEN? If your Car is stolen, we can try to locate it. Before we try to locate it, you’ll need to provide satisfactory identification, and the police must be treating the Car as stolen. Generally, we will only provide location information about stolen Cars to the police; however, in cases of crises or emergencies, we may, in our own judgment, provide you with information about the general area of your Car without police involvement. OnStar may be notified by an early warning system that your Car may have been stolen and, in some cases, you may also be notified by OnStar. We don’t have to continue to try to locate your Car after 48 hours from the time you first report it stolen, and we can’t guarantee that we’ll find it. We also aren’t required to try to find your Car for the purpose of locating someone.
Your Car may have Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability that enables OnStar to slow down your stolen Car remotely and/or the capability that enables OnStar to stop your Car from starting to assist law enforcement in its recovery. OnStar may also slow down your Car or stop your Car from starting if required to comply with legal requirements, including valid court orders in criminal investigations and to protect the safety of you or others.
If you don’t want Stolen Vehicle Slowdown capability on your Car, you must contact OnStar by pressing the blue OnStar button in your Car and request that this capability be disabled. If you choose to disable this capability, it will not be available under any circumstances and can only be re-enabled at an authorized car dealership at your expense.
Emphasis added to highlight the scary.
Now, where the heck is that OnStar module in my truck, and how to remove/disable it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnStar#Use_as_surveillance_device
I suggest a big ship that can transform into a vacuum cleaner.
FTFY.
Because 3(Crap) == AWESOME!
No, what MS needs is to focus on the 2-3 products they do fairly well, and make them great.
Ooh, and support the ReactOS project, especially since they're giving a big ol' middle finger to most of their business customers come 2014.