The latest attack resulted in 22 stabbings. The problem doesn't seem to be the guns in and of themselves, its the culture and how it is dealing with problematic individuals. Or something else, I don't know, but its definetely a social issue first and foremost.
Why did nobody tell me demonic hell beasts were an option. Why am I always last to get the memo? I'm all geared up for zombies, vampires, ice ages, meteorite strikes, pandemics and alien invasions. Now I have to go study Alice Cooper videos for vulnerabilities. Is salt good or is that just ghosts? Damn!
From Google's perspective, soliciting, exchanging, or generally acquiring links for the purposes of gaming their search algorithms is to be discouraged.
SEX IS BAD! Nipples will give you teh devil! And you will go to hell! Hell! Like those kids that mocked that guy's bald patch and got eaten by bears, all 42 of them. Bears!
Meanwhile, here is a scene of unrivalled carnage and bloodstained murder for your adolescents to enjoy.
I think Belize and Guatemala have some ongoing disputes as well which may have had something to do with it. Doubt he'll be able to bring the girlfriend with him though.
Eh its all on their site. The steel dice that let me roll like Sauron cost about $12-$15 each, with the expected postage. Those were the most expensive ones though except the gold plated versions, so material used would be the main thing associated with the cost. http://www.shapeways.com/model/126266/thorn-dice-set-with-decader.html
I ordered the sintered steel thorn dice set from them for roleplaying games, and I have to say I'm delighted. I'd imagine in about fifty years home manufactories will be about as common as power tool sets are today, although if you want the best quality you'll have to go to larger producers. Mostly they will be used for short term, specialised, low stress, or artistic requirements though, I can't see anyone printing off high end tech like the latest laptop cheaper than it could be bought through regular channels.
We have plenty of both, and usually the means to get a lot more if pressed. Where you might run into problems is if you were unwise enough to build a few cities in desert areas and then attempt to irrigate them from faraway sources.
Spellcheckers are responsible for this plague sweeping the internets. Someone clicks "autocorrect", thinks "good enough", and bam, another malformed post is hanging out for all the world to see. Language built civilisation folks, why do you hate civilisation?
However, the template upon which our behaviors rest comes from millions of years of evolution and are strongly impacted by them.
Millions of years of evolution are less important than thousands of years of culture and knowledge, since we have evolved to the stage where learning is far more important than instinct. Keep a person isolated from everyone in a jungle for their whole life. Put the same person's identical twin through the finest education and upbringing which can be offered by the twenty first century. The end results may as well be different species in terms of how they will respond to stimuli and challenges, I guarantee it.
The humanity has lived lifestyle analogous to the way other mammals live in the wild for most of its existence, the triumphs of the human intelligence that you celebrate are a relatively modern thing and still aren't a reality for a big percentage of the wolrd population.
What you're saying is that anything with emotional content must be the result of nature rather than nurture? Let's talk about sexuality so, right at the coalface. What part of nature led to S&M, swingers, hotwifing, nappy fetishes, uniform fetishes, exhibitionism, dogging, or any of the rest of the wonderfully diverse panolpy of human sexuality? Or how about this, which is more interesting, having sex with biologically attractive opposites or fulfilling a secret fantasy? You can't say there isn't a primarily intellectual aspect to this most animal facet of humankind, your brain is the biggest sexual organ you have.
I blame Spock-archetypes in the media for this confusion.
You're hacking your brain whenever you learn something new - its a mistake to conflate the gross biological structure with the informational structures we have developed. Inherited biology, genetics, these have little enough to do with it. Take for example European adventurism in the 19th century - were they genetically superior to the states they subjugated? I'm sure they would have liked to believe so. The reality is that they simply had superior knowledge - in terms of technology - to their opponents, accumulated over generations.
If it had been a hardwired situation, one would expect countries like China, India and Japan to never catch up, but they are and have, the achievements of their students in western universities often excel their local contemporaries. And they will be joined eventually by the rest of the world, showing incidentally once again that the pen is mightier than the sword.
By the same token the greatest danger to cultures and on a larger scale humanity itself is exceptionalism. Whenever someone starts to believe they are inherently better, just because, they start to lose sight of the reality. Nascent aristocracies as we see developing in the US today are a serious threat to our advancement, dynasties are a big problem. The most effective groups are those that ensure the democratisation of knowledge and opportunity are as pervasive as possible, while also ensuring that successful expansion of that knowledge is rewarded.
If I had thrown you in the Jungle at age 5, and some explorers found you at age 25; you are going to act anything other than Human. There have even been real cases of such. Without being taught anything, you are nothing more than a grunting Monkey, not even being able to talk.
Take any animal behaviour and I guarantee you'll find a set of humans somewhere that behave in a somewhat similar fashion. There are after all seven billion of us, so eh causation correlation and all that. Of course humans differ profoundly, show me the animal that has set a flag on the moon.
This is along the lines of a nature versus nurture debate which is hardly even a debate at all - using two people who are biologically almost identical, one from the early bronze age, one raised by the finest minds and best education in the twenty first century, of course their behaviour and capabilities will be radically different. Even without inventing a time machine, behaviour varies so much from culture to culture that the answer must be self apparent.
Human intelligence does not negate our evolutionary origins.
Oh, yes it does. We can fly higher, move faster, prolong our lives and do any number of things that our evolutionary origins would preclude. In fact we can do almost anything any animal can do, except better, and a great deal more besides, by using that intelligence. Intelligence is the ultimate evolutionary advantage, to the extent that it steps outside the commonly perceived framework of evolution and creates its own framework.
That's not to say it's not evolution, rather that it's a different form of evolution, whereby capability is derived from generation upon generation of accumulated knowledge without changing the raw biological underpinnings much. This knowledge in turn informs behaviour, which is what we're talking about. We can learn a lot about animals by studying animals, but trying to then somehow lay this onto human behaviour patterns is an exercise in futility at best.
Short version, instinct and intelligence are wildly different things, and humans are far more creatures of the latter than the former.
Birds are not humans. Dogs are not humans. Fish are not humans. Even monkeys are not humans. Please stop drawing parallels between humans, who exist in highly complex constantly changing societal structures and often do things for entirely non-immediately-intuitive reasons, and other types of creatures. These comparisons rarely have much grounding in reality, since intelligence is a phenomenon unto itself.
This. The rule of law is a very ephemeral thing in much of the world, and you can sit there whining about your rights for as long as it takes you to be dragged out into a back alley and ended. That doesn't mean McAfee is innocent, but I'm a big fan of the "until proven guilty" part of that picture myself.
There are two different stories here. One says that wealthier nations will offer humanitarian aid to disaster struck areas, the other claims that general compensation is due for damages. Two completely different things, and the actual facts of the matter seem to be more towards humanitarian aid.
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I'm not particularly in favour of liberal gun laws, but in China there are an ongoing spate of mass stabbings in schools, for example here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/7710196/China-suffers-eighth-child-stabbing-attack-in-a-month.html
The latest attack resulted in 22 stabbings. The problem doesn't seem to be the guns in and of themselves, its the culture and how it is dealing with problematic individuals. Or something else, I don't know, but its definetely a social issue first and foremost.
Wait, don't you have at least one M82 for anti-alien action?? I thought you were prepared...
Please, my shit is next gen. I've got a powerbook running windows 95 on a virtual PC that I left exposed to the internet for a couple of days.
Welcome to earth!
Why did nobody tell me demonic hell beasts were an option. Why am I always last to get the memo? I'm all geared up for zombies, vampires, ice ages, meteorite strikes, pandemics and alien invasions. Now I have to go study Alice Cooper videos for vulnerabilities. Is salt good or is that just ghosts? Damn!
From Google's perspective, soliciting, exchanging, or generally acquiring links for the purposes of gaming their search algorithms is to be discouraged.
Uses a Syberian Post Office: No idea what this is, but assuming some software, I'm sure it's downloadable with some searching.
I'm guessing its a proxy?
Data breeches go well with my network clogs.
Stop using autocorrect.
SEX IS BAD! Nipples will give you teh devil! And you will go to hell! Hell! Like those kids that mocked that guy's bald patch and got eaten by bears, all 42 of them. Bears!
Meanwhile, here is a scene of unrivalled carnage and bloodstained murder for your adolescents to enjoy.
I think Belize and Guatemala have some ongoing disputes as well which may have had something to do with it. Doubt he'll be able to bring the girlfriend with him though.
Eh its all on their site. The steel dice that let me roll like Sauron cost about $12-$15 each, with the expected postage. Those were the most expensive ones though except the gold plated versions, so material used would be the main thing associated with the cost. http://www.shapeways.com/model/126266/thorn-dice-set-with-decader.html
I ordered the sintered steel thorn dice set from them for roleplaying games, and I have to say I'm delighted. I'd imagine in about fifty years home manufactories will be about as common as power tool sets are today, although if you want the best quality you'll have to go to larger producers. Mostly they will be used for short term, specialised, low stress, or artistic requirements though, I can't see anyone printing off high end tech like the latest laptop cheaper than it could be bought through regular channels.
We have plenty of both, and usually the means to get a lot more if pressed. Where you might run into problems is if you were unwise enough to build a few cities in desert areas and then attempt to irrigate them from faraway sources.
Spellcheckers are responsible for this plague sweeping the internets. Someone clicks "autocorrect", thinks "good enough", and bam, another malformed post is hanging out for all the world to see. Language built civilisation folks, why do you hate civilisation?
However, the template upon which our behaviors rest comes from millions of years of evolution and are strongly impacted by them.
Millions of years of evolution are less important than thousands of years of culture and knowledge, since we have evolved to the stage where learning is far more important than instinct. Keep a person isolated from everyone in a jungle for their whole life. Put the same person's identical twin through the finest education and upbringing which can be offered by the twenty first century. The end results may as well be different species in terms of how they will respond to stimuli and challenges, I guarantee it.
No, it doesn't.
The humanity has lived lifestyle analogous to the way other mammals live in the wild for most of its existence, the triumphs of the human intelligence that you celebrate are a relatively modern thing and still aren't a reality for a big percentage of the wolrd population.
None of which runs counter to what I'm saying.
What you're saying is that anything with emotional content must be the result of nature rather than nurture? Let's talk about sexuality so, right at the coalface. What part of nature led to S&M, swingers, hotwifing, nappy fetishes, uniform fetishes, exhibitionism, dogging, or any of the rest of the wonderfully diverse panolpy of human sexuality? Or how about this, which is more interesting, having sex with biologically attractive opposites or fulfilling a secret fantasy? You can't say there isn't a primarily intellectual aspect to this most animal facet of humankind, your brain is the biggest sexual organ you have.
I blame Spock-archetypes in the media for this confusion.
You're hacking your brain whenever you learn something new - its a mistake to conflate the gross biological structure with the informational structures we have developed. Inherited biology, genetics, these have little enough to do with it. Take for example European adventurism in the 19th century - were they genetically superior to the states they subjugated? I'm sure they would have liked to believe so. The reality is that they simply had superior knowledge - in terms of technology - to their opponents, accumulated over generations.
If it had been a hardwired situation, one would expect countries like China, India and Japan to never catch up, but they are and have, the achievements of their students in western universities often excel their local contemporaries. And they will be joined eventually by the rest of the world, showing incidentally once again that the pen is mightier than the sword.
By the same token the greatest danger to cultures and on a larger scale humanity itself is exceptionalism. Whenever someone starts to believe they are inherently better, just because, they start to lose sight of the reality. Nascent aristocracies as we see developing in the US today are a serious threat to our advancement, dynasties are a big problem. The most effective groups are those that ensure the democratisation of knowledge and opportunity are as pervasive as possible, while also ensuring that successful expansion of that knowledge is rewarded.
The point was developed beyond the pithy one liner in a subsequent post. :)
If I had thrown you in the Jungle at age 5, and some explorers found you at age 25; you are going to act anything other than Human. There have even been real cases of such. Without being taught anything, you are nothing more than a grunting Monkey, not even being able to talk.
Exactly my point.
Take any animal behaviour and I guarantee you'll find a set of humans somewhere that behave in a somewhat similar fashion. There are after all seven billion of us, so eh causation correlation and all that. Of course humans differ profoundly, show me the animal that has set a flag on the moon.
This is along the lines of a nature versus nurture debate which is hardly even a debate at all - using two people who are biologically almost identical, one from the early bronze age, one raised by the finest minds and best education in the twenty first century, of course their behaviour and capabilities will be radically different. Even without inventing a time machine, behaviour varies so much from culture to culture that the answer must be self apparent.
Human intelligence does not negate our evolutionary origins.
Oh, yes it does. We can fly higher, move faster, prolong our lives and do any number of things that our evolutionary origins would preclude. In fact we can do almost anything any animal can do, except better, and a great deal more besides, by using that intelligence. Intelligence is the ultimate evolutionary advantage, to the extent that it steps outside the commonly perceived framework of evolution and creates its own framework.
That's not to say it's not evolution, rather that it's a different form of evolution, whereby capability is derived from generation upon generation of accumulated knowledge without changing the raw biological underpinnings much. This knowledge in turn informs behaviour, which is what we're talking about. We can learn a lot about animals by studying animals, but trying to then somehow lay this onto human behaviour patterns is an exercise in futility at best.
Short version, instinct and intelligence are wildly different things, and humans are far more creatures of the latter than the former.
Birds are not humans. Dogs are not humans. Fish are not humans. Even monkeys are not humans. Please stop drawing parallels between humans, who exist in highly complex constantly changing societal structures and often do things for entirely non-immediately-intuitive reasons, and other types of creatures. These comparisons rarely have much grounding in reality, since intelligence is a phenomenon unto itself.
Then MISS, Make It Simple. Email clients and browsers with encryption facilities preloaded.
This. The rule of law is a very ephemeral thing in much of the world, and you can sit there whining about your rights for as long as it takes you to be dragged out into a back alley and ended. That doesn't mean McAfee is innocent, but I'm a big fan of the "until proven guilty" part of that picture myself.
Why is it always alligators and never kangaroos or something, it what I want to know.
There are two different stories here. One says that wealthier nations will offer humanitarian aid to disaster struck areas, the other claims that general compensation is due for damages. Two completely different things, and the actual facts of the matter seem to be more towards humanitarian aid.