The Sun, as the source of light in our realm of reality, therefore had to be orbited by all the entities in the sky:
See the first third of the free-on-the-Internet movie Zeitgeist, which describes how most religions are "Sun-God religions". This then makes perfect, circular sense: we observed that everything came from the Sun, formed it into a God, passed it down through various religions (Horus comes to mind), and then idiotic religious zealots decide that they are the center of the universe, and killed scientists for disbelieving; and then finally, the scientists were right all along, but so were the early religions. Weird.
Maybe this is the prime reality, and time travel just hasn't been discovered yet.
I prefer the converse of that: given that we're working our way towards computer simulations that are more and more real, what are the chances that we're currently experiencing in the original?
My favorite take on unreality is that we're a simulation running on some grad student's professor's computer, taking a few % of the CPU, no big deal; it resolves chairs, people, cars, and sometimes (depending on the lighting), dust. However, once we achieve nanotechnology, it will need to resolve (and keep track of) every individual atom, making the simulation take more and more CPU cycles until the professor says, "shut it down, I need to get some real work done."
Thus nanotechnology is both saviour, and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
[...] "success" rate of around 85%, since that is the rate at which illnesses spontaneously cure themselves. This rate is why homeopathy, snake oil salesmen, faith healers and all other forms of shamans and charlatans manage to convince people of their effectiveness.
So couldn't that same argument be used against doctors?
I mean, if out of 100 diseases that I catch my body will deal with 85 of them, why should I make a doctor's appointment for all 100 of them?
Separately, energy healing works; it took me 40 hours of practice before I could feel the energy (for me, it's a buzzing/tingling sensation; for others it's hot/cold, or pressure, or some other known sense -- it's not a sixth sense, just a reused one). EFT ("tapping psychology") works great as well; just be prepared for some tears (crying, not ripping).
Sure, there are people selling snake oil, but there are also people sharing treatments that have worked for thousands of years. "Western"-style medicine only recently arrived on the scene, and has its own issues with placebos.
You can find value in many places. Of course, when your livelihood depends on selling pills, then you will tend to denigrate the other methodologies whereby pills are not necessary. So I understand where you're coming from, even if I don't want to fill your wallet.
I love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. Now if only they had named themselves, after the fallout from the Refreshments, "Roger Clyne and the Makers of Peace", then I could refer to two cool groups as "RCMP".
VCs need to make ROI with a fat R. IPOs are almost non-existent today because of the tighness of the markets.
IP makes a company ostensibly more valuable, but only if the IP makes money in and of itself, either as a production protection, or as a defense, or as part of a portfolio to go to war with.
Let's form a company to sell IPOs!
We'll create a whole bunch of Intellectual Property, and then sell Options on it!
Yea, the joke pretty much ends there. Sorry; try the veal; tip your waitresses, just not over.
You don't need porn, just a heart bio-feedback monitor, for a short period of training. After a little practice, you'll be able to increase your heart rate by thinking about it, and then some things just magically happen. (It also helps to visualize the opening of certain valves. I'm totally serious.)
Not that I'm aware of, I don't know where I would see a tooltip to indicate that I can press Windows-E to open Explorer, or Windows-R to open the Run dialog, or Windows-M to minimize/restore all applications.
FYI, Windows-M only minimizes all visible applications; it won't restore them. The shortcut for toggling minimize/restore is Windows-D (d for desktop; it means "show/hide desktop").
For someone like Lincoln to have stood idly by on something as important as slavery as well as secession, claiming that his hands were tied by something written 90 years earlier would have been cowardly and just plain wrong. There are times when sticking with precedent is right, and there are times for taking action to establish new precedent. That's why we have leaders.
Sometimes it goes horribly wrong, i.e. with our ridiculous war in Iraq and human rights violations in Gitmo, but when you've got someone intelligent and experienced in charge, doing the right thing will have more benefits than liabilities in the long run.
To even insinuate that Lincoln's exercise of federal force was a bad thing in any sense of the word is wrong in many, many ways.
I don't see it that way.
I see it as: Lincoln enabled the W's wars. Both their actions were not Constitutional.
We don't have a right to know instantly; that would put officers in danger.
I'm not sure I fully agree. If the police are doing something that God himself should not be watching, then perhaps they're doing it wrong?
I invoke religion, knowing that I'm completely separate from it; but, it does speak to the emotions. Now to speak to logic: anybody acting in public can be video and audio recorded without their permission; this is what one gives up by leaving one's private quarters.
If one can be recorded, the recording can be broadcast. Let's say the broadcast happens immediately (which makes sense, otherwise those crooked cops I watched that hour of Youtube earlier would now know to take the recording device away from you, or destroy it, and then we wouldn't have had that hour of video to watch, in 9:29 segments).
So, if it's uploaded immediately, then it can be downloaded (almost) immediately. Therefore, again this is logic speaking here, if the police are acting in public, then they can and should expect their actions to be broadcast to every citizen instantly. Not doing so, would put us the public in danger.
Lastly, we all know about the "blue code on honor". If "good" cops are looking the other way to protect "bad" cops, at the expense of innocent citizenry, are they really still "good" cops?
Pop quiz, when was the last time you heard someone admit freely that they can't drive and talk on their cell at the same time?
I've gotten into the habit of regularly staring (with my body turned) at a car that I'm passing that drives erratically.
There are two reasons. The first, invariably I see them on a cell phone, possibly also eating a fucking burrito or something. The second, if you've read this far, is to show them (if they happen to look up; most are too busy fucking texting) that other people are watching their behavior.
I expect to soon be cited for failure to stare at the road, or something, after having watched that goddammed video about cop abuse this evening. Or perhaps tased and then bulleted (murdered) for failing to not bleed on the officer after almost dying in a car accident.
She's seen enough BS pulled to have gotten out of several of them if she'd been thinking - like, "I can't read your name on this ticket, officer. Could you please tell it to me so that I can be sure that I get it right when we're done here and I'm calling to complain to your precinct commander and the city councilman about how you speak to the citizens that pay your salary?"
Good luck with your next wife. Hope you have lots of insurance on this one.
I have mod points, but wanted to post: I just spent about an hour watching this (it's six segments, each about 9:29, so I somewhat feel ripped off as I just wanted to give away 10 minutes of my life...), but I am so glad that I did, and I don't know what to do about it. I mean, I want to email all my family and friends the link, but then I don't want my name in a database. (Right now the database will contain this post; but, it's linked to one of 7 or 9 people in this NAT's IP address.) I don't know what to do; I could try asking my local police department for a complaint form at 2 am, but then I don't want to end up in jail or assaulted like the victims in the video, asking the police for assistance only to be abused. This is serious shit man.
Windows, if administered right? There are new critical flaws found almost daily. Windows can be locked down pretty tight if you remove the network cable though.
When Windows initially obtained its military-grade certification (C2, IIRC, although perhaps C4 would be more appropriate), the only way it passed was with the network cable unplugged.
And yet, this was a brilliant move by Microsoft, because they could then advertise their "New, C2-secure OS", because not all faults need to be advertised as with medications.
After a while, the big 360 machine with VM was running at least 10 different OSs simultaneously, with each group using the OS that best fit their needs.
I just hope that multiple independent parties are backing up Slashdot discussions. Because this is a piece of history, and it deserves to be preserved.
I thought the next big thing to hit MS by Google actions was to make HTML5 the new YouTube installer
Even better: make the Chrome browser be the new YouTube installer.
Then, make Chrome OS be the new YouTube installer; except that by the time they release it, they'll have mapped all the underlying system calls (and bugs) to replace your XP SP3 installation, without removing (or breaking) any of your applications.
That's the next "killer app" -- the OS that replaces. Something like a hypervisor, or other VM technologies, but it's not just that; it virtualizes the OS itself. (And, of course, a Windows 7 (and Vista, shudder) replacement would follow in short order. And, I do realize that I'm thanking the WINE project in large part here.)
i.e. can Microsoft employees even do their JOB nowadays without Google?
No.
No, they cannot.
Former friends used to say "shh, don't say 'google it', say 'live search it'" (and of course, they now say "bing it", and will soon say "'Plan C' it", and perhaps "'Plan D' it", but they'll continue to have no style).
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Eww? I mean, a little graphic...
See the first third of the free-on-the-Internet movie Zeitgeist, which describes how most religions are "Sun-God religions". This then makes perfect, circular sense: we observed that everything came from the Sun, formed it into a God, passed it down through various religions (Horus comes to mind), and then idiotic religious zealots decide that they are the center of the universe, and killed scientists for disbelieving; and then finally, the scientists were right all along, but so were the early religions. Weird.
I prefer the converse of that: given that we're working our way towards computer simulations that are more and more real, what are the chances that we're currently experiencing in the original?
My favorite take on unreality is that we're a simulation running on some grad student's professor's computer, taking a few % of the CPU, no big deal; it resolves chairs, people, cars, and sometimes (depending on the lighting), dust. However, once we achieve nanotechnology, it will need to resolve (and keep track of) every individual atom, making the simulation take more and more CPU cycles until the professor says, "shut it down, I need to get some real work done."
Thus nanotechnology is both saviour, and the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
So couldn't that same argument be used against doctors?
I mean, if out of 100 diseases that I catch my body will deal with 85 of them, why should I make a doctor's appointment for all 100 of them?
Separately, energy healing works; it took me 40 hours of practice before I could feel the energy (for me, it's a buzzing/tingling sensation; for others it's hot/cold, or pressure, or some other known sense -- it's not a sixth sense, just a reused one). EFT ("tapping psychology") works great as well; just be prepared for some tears (crying, not ripping).
Sure, there are people selling snake oil, but there are also people sharing treatments that have worked for thousands of years. "Western"-style medicine only recently arrived on the scene, and has its own issues with placebos.
You can find value in many places. Of course, when your livelihood depends on selling pills, then you will tend to denigrate the other methodologies whereby pills are not necessary. So I understand where you're coming from, even if I don't want to fill your wallet.
"Back off, man -- I'm a scientist."
MSM meets all of my joint needs. Now get off my lawn! What was I saying?
Arduino.
I love Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers. Now if only they had named themselves, after the fallout from the Refreshments, "Roger Clyne and the Makers of Peace", then I could refer to two cool groups as "RCMP".
Which version? 1964, or 1985?
I really wanna pass the human test.
Let's form a company to sell IPOs!
We'll create a whole bunch of Intellectual Property, and then sell Options on it!
Yea, the joke pretty much ends there. Sorry; try the veal; tip your waitresses, just not over.
Or they will be, after the metric-to-English landing...
You don't need porn, just a heart bio-feedback monitor, for a short period of training. After a little practice, you'll be able to increase your heart rate by thinking about it, and then some things just magically happen. (It also helps to visualize the opening of certain valves. I'm totally serious.)
FYI, Windows-M only minimizes all visible applications; it won't restore them. The shortcut for toggling minimize/restore is Windows-D (d for desktop; it means "show/hide desktop").
I don't see it that way.
I see it as: Lincoln enabled the W's wars. Both their actions were not Constitutional.
I'm not sure I fully agree. If the police are doing something that God himself should not be watching, then perhaps they're doing it wrong?
I invoke religion, knowing that I'm completely separate from it; but, it does speak to the emotions. Now to speak to logic: anybody acting in public can be video and audio recorded without their permission; this is what one gives up by leaving one's private quarters.
If one can be recorded, the recording can be broadcast. Let's say the broadcast happens immediately (which makes sense, otherwise those crooked cops I watched that hour of Youtube earlier would now know to take the recording device away from you, or destroy it, and then we wouldn't have had that hour of video to watch, in 9:29 segments).
So, if it's uploaded immediately, then it can be downloaded (almost) immediately. Therefore, again this is logic speaking here, if the police are acting in public, then they can and should expect their actions to be broadcast to every citizen instantly. Not doing so, would put us the public in danger.
No.
I've gotten into the habit of regularly staring (with my body turned) at a car that I'm passing that drives erratically.
There are two reasons. The first, invariably I see them on a cell phone, possibly also eating a fucking burrito or something. The second, if you've read this far, is to show them (if they happen to look up; most are too busy fucking texting) that other people are watching their behavior.
I expect to soon be cited for failure to stare at the road, or something, after having watched that goddammed video about cop abuse this evening. Or perhaps tased and then bulleted (murdered) for failing to not bleed on the officer after almost dying in a car accident.
Good luck with your next wife. Hope you have lots of insurance on this one.
I have mod points, but wanted to post: I just spent about an hour watching this (it's six segments, each about 9:29, so I somewhat feel ripped off as I just wanted to give away 10 minutes of my life...), but I am so glad that I did, and I don't know what to do about it. I mean, I want to email all my family and friends the link, but then I don't want my name in a database. (Right now the database will contain this post; but, it's linked to one of 7 or 9 people in this NAT's IP address.) I don't know what to do; I could try asking my local police department for a complaint form at 2 am, but then I don't want to end up in jail or assaulted like the victims in the video, asking the police for assistance only to be abused. This is serious shit man.
When Windows initially obtained its military-grade certification (C2, IIRC, although perhaps C4 would be more appropriate), the only way it passed was with the network cable unplugged.
And yet, this was a brilliant move by Microsoft, because they could then advertise their "New, C2-secure OS", because not all faults need to be advertised as with medications.
I just hope that multiple independent parties are backing up Slashdot discussions. Because this is a piece of history, and it deserves to be preserved.
Even better: make the Chrome browser be the new YouTube installer.
Then, make Chrome OS be the new YouTube installer; except that by the time they release it, they'll have mapped all the underlying system calls (and bugs) to replace your XP SP3 installation, without removing (or breaking) any of your applications.
That's the next "killer app" -- the OS that replaces. Something like a hypervisor, or other VM technologies, but it's not just that; it virtualizes the OS itself. (And, of course, a Windows 7 (and Vista, shudder) replacement would follow in short order. And, I do realize that I'm thanking the WINE project in large part here.)
No.
No, they cannot.
Former friends used to say "shh, don't say 'google it', say 'live search it'" (and of course, they now say "bing it", and will soon say "'Plan C' it", and perhaps "'Plan D' it", but they'll continue to have no style).
This: http://www.deadoraliveinfo.com/dead.nsf/pages-nf/main
Um, yeah, we used that briefly in grade school in the early 1980s (late 70s?), and our teachers made us stop.
Kids these days, they don't know how good they've got it.
Uphill both ways, I tell you; now get off my lawn!