You realise that by bringing partisan politics into this discussion you are demonstrating the mechanism by which your national political climate is getting fucked over...
Every 2nd hand hard disk I have ever acquired has had personal data on it. None of the previous owners had even attempted to delete the data all the filesystem pointers were intact. On the other hand none of them ever had any useful data on them, unless I wanted to embarrass the previous owner by sending their porn collection to their wife/parents.
When I travelled to Germany from New Zealand via Bangkok (I never take the flights that stop at US airports), I was never searched. I went through the 'nothing to declare' door, there were no security staff at all, just an empty room. On the other side of the room there was a hallway and that had a doorway to the parking area outside the building. Of course that was after getting off the plane. Getting on the plane always involves a metal detector and a luggage x ray. My bag got searched once when I went to Australia. But at Auckland, Bangkok, Singapore, Berlin, Frankfurt it was just the basics. I remember in Bangkok they had a special area of the airport cordoned off where flights to the US were leaving. There were huge security lines and people getting pat down and questioned. So yes and no, this is not limited to US airports, but it is limited to flights to and from the US. The weird thing is that although it is designed to give Americans the impression that terrorists are everywhere, as an outsider it only gives the impression that the US is full of terrorists and everywhere else is safe. My brother flew to Germany from Egypt during the protests there and was never searched. I remember when I was younger and I went through Auckland airport with tobacco and alcohol, the form said you have to declare these, so I went through the goods to declare room. There was one security guy there. I told him I had alcohol and tobacco and he gave me this exasperated look like I was wasting his time and pushed me toward the exit.
A rock-solid, well-organized, well-presented, and perfectly true argument for whatever position you want the politician to take doesn't amount to a hill of beans. "Rightness" is not the power that politicians serve.
While this is partly true, it is also missing an important point. Many politicians are ignorant on certain issues, as we often note here. If your representative is for example in favour of internet neutrality in principle, but doesn't understand how the issues relate to his/her principles, a succinct letter explaining the risks associated with the cispa bill and offering citations and evidence might not only cement his/her position against it, but also give him/her ammunition for speaking out against it in parliament/congreess/senate/council. If your representative already disagrees with you though, there is little hope of changing their mind.
Regardless of which of the previous posts are true, the consensus seems to be 'real men waste time and effort doing everything in the hardest most complicated possible way.'
As a fake man, I use whatever language/environment combination allows me to complete the project as desired in the shortest amount of time. This means IDE's like visual studio and eclipse, and for making games I use unity3d. Sure there are a lot of restrictions like the inability to easily add libraries and the opaqueness of certain aspects of the physics engine and graphics pipeline. But I am trying to put out basic proof of concept prototypes and if I can get it done in a week with a few efficiency issues, I will take that over getting it done in 3 months on a lower level where I have complete control. Like I said, I am just not a real man.
Could the title of the summary possibly be further from the actual nature and findings of the research without being about a completely different story? Cookie for anyone who can think of a way.
There is another way to avoid this, install your media player of choice and a bittorrent client. Winamp has a nice ipod plugin if you are stuck with apple hardware.
He is merely pointing out that anti-nuclear activists are driven purely by emotion and flawed rhetoric whereas he represents the intellectually superior pro-nuclear activists who voice their scientifically based arguments with flawless grammar and rapier like wit, complete with quotes from the intellectual giants of our time.
Lets keep in mind the whole context. i.e. not teaching women; which has a political foundation in that part of the world.
There, FTFY.
The Qur'an does not state that women should not be educated
Many muslims believe the old testament is also a valid holy book, maybe the problem was they read Genesis 3:16 where god says that women are subject to men's will.
Just for giggles, tote up the number of atrocities attributed to Christianity since WWII and those attributed to Islam
That hardly seems fair, the christians have been committing atrocities since about 400ce, many of them against muslims, and the muslims have been at it a while too. Let's take everything into account here.
Why is this moderated down? Because it is expressing a bigoted religious prejudice. Attacking education is not limited to any one of 'the three middle eastern religions', they all do it. If the argument was against monotheistic organised religion in general, then I agree with it. But when US christians point the finger at muslims I can't help thinking of the exact same kinds of acts being perpetrated by US christians. Like "...burning black churches and schools"Killing women and children. Yes I realise it is unfair to blame christianity for the actions of these individuals, but that is true for psychotic religious zealots from other religions too.
But even for those few of us who claim to be complete skeptics, belief quietly sneaks in.
Nope. Not a bit of it. In my experience, only believers believe that everyone else must secretly be a believer. The rest of us live a fact-based life.
Complete skeptics who reject anything that isn't 100% fact based do so because they have a deep fear of the unknown and this hardcore skepticism is a psychological crutch that enables them to reconcile their compulsive need for order with an inherently chaotic universe. This seems to me to be the height of magical thinking: the sub-conscious fear of chaos and disorder as though these things are in some way harmful or dangerous. A psychologically well rounded person is able to deal with the unknown, by forming some chaotic or disordered thought processes that interact in some useful way with their more ordered rational ones. Magic and spirituality are merely two options for thought structures that process the chaotic unknown (also psychological crutches of course, I am not implying that super skeptics are in any way inferior to people other ways of dealing with this), and mental tools can be used wisely or stupidly. There are also contradictions in the total skeptic world view, although they are less numerous and severe than those of organised religion (yes I can't help feeling organised religion is a little bit inferior). For example it has been shown mathematically that no formal system of logic can accurately represent all of reality. In addition, when we look at physics on the smallest most elementary level, we invariably find that A) there is chaos and disorder or B) most of the order and predictability are lost in the complexities of the system by the time it reaches the much larger scale in which we operate.
Lastly, until we achieve a sufficiently powerful artificial intelligence, all thought is done within a human mind, and all evidence is processed though human senses. The idea that true objectivity is possible through such a subjective framework is delusional. Perhaps those who believe the universe contains no chaos or disorder are right, but the evidence for this is not conclusive and any such belief is based in faith.
Anyone who takes their historical knowledge from Hollywood movies probably also has problems with the polysyllabic words in your correction anyway. I wonder if he thinks Hitler was killed in a burning movie theatre by a group of American commandos.
The corsix-th theme hospital project is coming along nicely. I am also avidly following the openclonk project. Yes I know neither of these are finished, and I know that is main complaint about oss games, but corsix is totally playable, and openclonk is one of those projects that is never meant to be finished, but will instead simply grow and improve forever, much like the original clonk series.
Among scientific minded people, for example on slashdot, it is fine to discuss future alternatives and safer reactor designs, but the social and political world are a bit more simplistic. I have a problem with the reactors that all of us here agree are unsafe. 50 year old facilities with proven design flaws. The way people can effect political change is through activism and lobbying. You can't march in streets chanting slogans and holding signs that say "No nuclear power from reactors that are more than 50 years old, or 20 years in the case of reactors of X design, or 10 years in the case of reactors without X safety precautions, and [specific concerns about how waste is disposed of transported and stored] and [concerns about training procedures and administrative corruption]". The politicians who are responsible for legislating this sort of thing are not scientists, and don't understand the situation, and neither do the non scientist public who's support needs to be aquired for any kind of political movement. For me the priority is shutting down unsafe reactors. To do this I have two choices, "No nuclear power!" or "More nuclear power!". It is not because I am stupid and don't understand the nature of technology, it is the nature of our social and political system. If we can get all the unsafe power plants closed I might consider moving to the "More nuclear power!" camp, but until then I am firmly anti.
This is not hysteria, please help us close the plants that we all agree are dangerous.
That's just the kind of reckless thinking that caused the failure in the first place. We must provide for EVERY contingency, no matter how unlikely!
For the children!
Unfortunately unwashed masses that inhale fumes from coal plants every day go batshit insane when they hear 'nuclear' and politicians play along.
I am all for closing all nukes at once. Maybe those ignorant hippies, who don't understand how the world they live in works and what greases its wheels, will learn something from blackouts, brownouts and less juice for their apple branded gizmos.
Basically a "suitable" site can't be:
* within 1 light year of anything else
* actually engage in any sort of nuclear reactions
* use the standing nuclear infrastructure for anything
* produce any waste whatsoever. It produces clean drinking water, power, and air? BAD! BAAAAAAD!
* "actually" nuclear in any way, shape or form.
* use any technology that doesn't have at least 50,000 years of hardcore reliability testing
* offend anyone's delicate sensibilities in any way
Basically there is no such thing as a "suitable" site for these people. Because the second someone says "nuclear" their head turns off COMPLETELY (if it wasn't already off) and the first thing out of their yap-holes is "bombs" "Hiroshima" "Nagasaki", "Three Mile Island", "Chernobyl" and now "Fukashima".
***
Is it just me, or are the nuclear power lobby on slashdot getting more and more emotional and less and less coherent?
That is the part I miss the least. It is almost an insult to the genre to call those travesties games. You go play your farmville, I'll tell the online gaming community you aren't coming because you are busy with facebook.
God no. Getting good marks from a computer is all about understanding the algorithm and what it is looking for. This will get to the point where certain combinations of absolute gibberish or x-babble will get the best marks. Students will learn how to write this and not how to write language. Terrible idea.
"these two worlds also formed around the same time"
There is nothing in TFA to support this other than the fact that they are orbiting an old star, it is simply stated. Isn't it possible for wandering planets to get caught in a stable orbit around a star? They could be only a billion years old. Please correct me if I have made some fundamental error.
There are alternatives if you don't want to wear a mask. Some of these are also less likely to get you hassled by the police. Someone should make a version of these face paint techniques that uses national flags and national team colours, then everyone will just assume you are a sports fan.
Not only that, but he never predicted RFID chips. Orwell wasn't the only person to predict government surveillance, people give him too much credit. He wrote of video and audio surveillance, thought police, and media control, all of which already existed at the time of writing. His main contribution in terms of new ideas was popularising the whole package as a well known dystopia (not that it seems to have helped), and the idea of doublespeak and language corruption.
Slashdot Mirror
You realise that by bringing partisan politics into this discussion you are demonstrating the mechanism by which your national political climate is getting fucked over...
Every 2nd hand hard disk I have ever acquired has had personal data on it. None of the previous owners had even attempted to delete the data all the filesystem pointers were intact. On the other hand none of them ever had any useful data on them, unless I wanted to embarrass the previous owner by sending their porn collection to their wife/parents.
When I travelled to Germany from New Zealand via Bangkok (I never take the flights that stop at US airports), I was never searched. I went through the 'nothing to declare' door, there were no security staff at all, just an empty room. On the other side of the room there was a hallway and that had a doorway to the parking area outside the building. Of course that was after getting off the plane. Getting on the plane always involves a metal detector and a luggage x ray. My bag got searched once when I went to Australia. But at Auckland, Bangkok, Singapore, Berlin, Frankfurt it was just the basics. I remember in Bangkok they had a special area of the airport cordoned off where flights to the US were leaving. There were huge security lines and people getting pat down and questioned. So yes and no, this is not limited to US airports, but it is limited to flights to and from the US. The weird thing is that although it is designed to give Americans the impression that terrorists are everywhere, as an outsider it only gives the impression that the US is full of terrorists and everywhere else is safe. My brother flew to Germany from Egypt during the protests there and was never searched. I remember when I was younger and I went through Auckland airport with tobacco and alcohol, the form said you have to declare these, so I went through the goods to declare room. There was one security guy there. I told him I had alcohol and tobacco and he gave me this exasperated look like I was wasting his time and pushed me toward the exit.
A rock-solid, well-organized, well-presented, and perfectly true argument for whatever position you want the politician to take doesn't amount to a hill of beans. "Rightness" is not the power that politicians serve.
While this is partly true, it is also missing an important point. Many politicians are ignorant on certain issues, as we often note here. If your representative is for example in favour of internet neutrality in principle, but doesn't understand how the issues relate to his/her principles, a succinct letter explaining the risks associated with the cispa bill and offering citations and evidence might not only cement his/her position against it, but also give him/her ammunition for speaking out against it in parliament/congreess/senate/council. If your representative already disagrees with you though, there is little hope of changing their mind.
Regardless of which of the previous posts are true, the consensus seems to be 'real men waste time and effort doing everything in the hardest most complicated possible way.' As a fake man, I use whatever language/environment combination allows me to complete the project as desired in the shortest amount of time. This means IDE's like visual studio and eclipse, and for making games I use unity3d. Sure there are a lot of restrictions like the inability to easily add libraries and the opaqueness of certain aspects of the physics engine and graphics pipeline. But I am trying to put out basic proof of concept prototypes and if I can get it done in a week with a few efficiency issues, I will take that over getting it done in 3 months on a lower level where I have complete control. Like I said, I am just not a real man.
Could the title of the summary possibly be further from the actual nature and findings of the research without being about a completely different story? Cookie for anyone who can think of a way.
There is another way to avoid this, install your media player of choice and a bittorrent client. Winamp has a nice ipod plugin if you are stuck with apple hardware.
He is merely pointing out that anti-nuclear activists are driven purely by emotion and flawed rhetoric whereas he represents the intellectually superior pro-nuclear activists who voice their scientifically based arguments with flawless grammar and rapier like wit, complete with quotes from the intellectual giants of our time.
Lets keep in mind the whole context. i.e. not teaching women; which has a political foundation in that part of the world.
There, FTFY.
The Qur'an does not state that women should not be educated
Many muslims believe the old testament is also a valid holy book, maybe the problem was they read Genesis 3:16 where god says that women are subject to men's will.
No, they are setting churches on fire, in their annual attacks on Christians...
...tried TO BURN KIDS IN A CHURCH for disrespecting... I think I have been trolled. Or you're a brainwashed ignoramus.
Yeah, christians would never do something like that
Just for giggles, tote up the number of atrocities attributed to Christianity since WWII and those attributed to Islam
That hardly seems fair, the christians have been committing atrocities since about 400ce, many of them against muslims, and the muslims have been at it a while too. Let's take everything into account here.
Why is this moderated down? Because it is expressing a bigoted religious prejudice. Attacking education is not limited to any one of 'the three middle eastern religions', they all do it. If the argument was against monotheistic organised religion in general, then I agree with it. But when US christians point the finger at muslims I can't help thinking of the exact same kinds of acts being perpetrated by US christians. Like "...burning black churches and schools" Killing women and children. Yes I realise it is unfair to blame christianity for the actions of these individuals, but that is true for psychotic religious zealots from other religions too.
"W have found a cure for aids! All you have to do is inject $100,000 directly into your bloodstream"
But even for those few of us who claim to be complete skeptics, belief quietly sneaks in.
Nope. Not a bit of it. In my experience, only believers believe that everyone else must secretly be a believer. The rest of us live a fact-based life.
Complete skeptics who reject anything that isn't 100% fact based do so because they have a deep fear of the unknown and this hardcore skepticism is a psychological crutch that enables them to reconcile their compulsive need for order with an inherently chaotic universe. This seems to me to be the height of magical thinking: the sub-conscious fear of chaos and disorder as though these things are in some way harmful or dangerous. A psychologically well rounded person is able to deal with the unknown, by forming some chaotic or disordered thought processes that interact in some useful way with their more ordered rational ones. Magic and spirituality are merely two options for thought structures that process the chaotic unknown (also psychological crutches of course, I am not implying that super skeptics are in any way inferior to people other ways of dealing with this), and mental tools can be used wisely or stupidly. There are also contradictions in the total skeptic world view, although they are less numerous and severe than those of organised religion (yes I can't help feeling organised religion is a little bit inferior). For example it has been shown mathematically that no formal system of logic can accurately represent all of reality. In addition, when we look at physics on the smallest most elementary level, we invariably find that A) there is chaos and disorder or B) most of the order and predictability are lost in the complexities of the system by the time it reaches the much larger scale in which we operate.
Lastly, until we achieve a sufficiently powerful artificial intelligence, all thought is done within a human mind, and all evidence is processed though human senses. The idea that true objectivity is possible through such a subjective framework is delusional. Perhaps those who believe the universe contains no chaos or disorder are right, but the evidence for this is not conclusive and any such belief is based in faith.
Say should we expect some invasion in the forthcoming months ? ^_^
Only if the sanctions don't work
Anyone who takes their historical knowledge from Hollywood movies probably also has problems with the polysyllabic words in your correction anyway. I wonder if he thinks Hitler was killed in a burning movie theatre by a group of American commandos.
The corsix-th theme hospital project is coming along nicely. I am also avidly following the openclonk project. Yes I know neither of these are finished, and I know that is main complaint about oss games, but corsix is totally playable, and openclonk is one of those projects that is never meant to be finished, but will instead simply grow and improve forever, much like the original clonk series.
Among scientific minded people, for example on slashdot, it is fine to discuss future alternatives and safer reactor designs, but the social and political world are a bit more simplistic. I have a problem with the reactors that all of us here agree are unsafe. 50 year old facilities with proven design flaws. The way people can effect political change is through activism and lobbying. You can't march in streets chanting slogans and holding signs that say "No nuclear power from reactors that are more than 50 years old, or 20 years in the case of reactors of X design, or 10 years in the case of reactors without X safety precautions, and [specific concerns about how waste is disposed of transported and stored] and [concerns about training procedures and administrative corruption]". The politicians who are responsible for legislating this sort of thing are not scientists, and don't understand the situation, and neither do the non scientist public who's support needs to be aquired for any kind of political movement. For me the priority is shutting down unsafe reactors. To do this I have two choices, "No nuclear power!" or "More nuclear power!". It is not because I am stupid and don't understand the nature of technology, it is the nature of our social and political system. If we can get all the unsafe power plants closed I might consider moving to the "More nuclear power!" camp, but until then I am firmly anti.
This is not hysteria, please help us close the plants that we all agree are dangerous.
That's just the kind of reckless thinking that caused the failure in the first place. We must provide for EVERY contingency, no matter how unlikely! For the children!
Unfortunately unwashed masses that inhale fumes from coal plants every day go batshit insane when they hear 'nuclear' and politicians play along. I am all for closing all nukes at once. Maybe those ignorant hippies, who don't understand how the world they live in works and what greases its wheels, will learn something from blackouts, brownouts and less juice for their apple branded gizmos.
Basically a "suitable" site can't be:
* within 1 light year of anything else * actually engage in any sort of nuclear reactions * use the standing nuclear infrastructure for anything * produce any waste whatsoever. It produces clean drinking water, power, and air? BAD! BAAAAAAD! * "actually" nuclear in any way, shape or form. * use any technology that doesn't have at least 50,000 years of hardcore reliability testing * offend anyone's delicate sensibilities in any way
Basically there is no such thing as a "suitable" site for these people. Because the second someone says "nuclear" their head turns off COMPLETELY (if it wasn't already off) and the first thing out of their yap-holes is "bombs" "Hiroshima" "Nagasaki", "Three Mile Island", "Chernobyl" and now "Fukashima".
***
Is it just me, or are the nuclear power lobby on slashdot getting more and more emotional and less and less coherent?
And it has games.
That is the part I miss the least. It is almost an insult to the genre to call those travesties games. You go play your farmville, I'll tell the online gaming community you aren't coming because you are busy with facebook.
God no. Getting good marks from a computer is all about understanding the algorithm and what it is looking for. This will get to the point where certain combinations of absolute gibberish or x-babble will get the best marks. Students will learn how to write this and not how to write language. Terrible idea.
"these two worlds also formed around the same time" There is nothing in TFA to support this other than the fact that they are orbiting an old star, it is simply stated. Isn't it possible for wandering planets to get caught in a stable orbit around a star? They could be only a billion years old. Please correct me if I have made some fundamental error.
I am not German but I have been a resident in Berlin for several years and follow politics closer than many.
-They are a breath of fresh air in a stale bureaucratic system
-All of the ones I have heard their position on (yes I read their party manifesto)
-This one is hard to answer, time will tell. I do think that merely by being there they influence the frame of public debate slightly.
-Not going stale and becoming just another brick in the wall. German bureaucracy is pretty soul crushing sometimes
There are alternatives if you don't want to wear a mask. Some of these are also less likely to get you hassled by the police. Someone should make a version of these face paint techniques that uses national flags and national team colours, then everyone will just assume you are a sports fan.
Not only that, but he never predicted RFID chips. Orwell wasn't the only person to predict government surveillance, people give him too much credit. He wrote of video and audio surveillance, thought police, and media control, all of which already existed at the time of writing. His main contribution in terms of new ideas was popularising the whole package as a well known dystopia (not that it seems to have helped), and the idea of doublespeak and language corruption.