I don't know which is sadder, that you're so ashamed of your own heritage or that there is so little memory of actual Irish culture amongst Irish Americans. The national motto is céad míle fáilte, a hundred thousand welcomes, and it holds as true today as ever, despite history, or perhaps because of it. Much has been lost. Northern Ireland is a completely different story mind you, it really is a different culture completely, for reasons I won't go into here.
Humans are as tribal as they want to be. In Ireland there has been a HUGE influx of immigrants from places like Eastern Europe and sub Saharan Africa, something like one in six people were born outside the country according to the most recent census. And this is just in the last ten or so years. Backlash? None. Rise of right wing groups? None. Race riots such as have graced the streets of most European countries and the UK? Zero. And if there's one thing guaranteed to bring out any latent xenophobia its a sudden massive influx of foreigners.
Its a very open and inclusive society. So much for the stereotypes.
From what I can tell they are using stuff that's already in the public domain. I really don't see how there's a legitimate complaint here. I mean if they are using the layout of copyrighted works, as in paragraph 3 and 8 have the same meaning in both works, maybe, but it doesn't look that way.
However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge
Personally my feeling is that our desire for knowledge has reduced pain. And tuberculosis. And smallpox. And the need to scavenge wood to make a cup of boiled nettles. And hey, even pain.
Galactica was pseudo religious military wank with a dash of body horror and a vague stab at challenging social issues like racism to be honest, an homage to the Bush era.
Haha! In fairness though it must have felt like the end of the world. I remember the first time I experienced an earthquake in the Philippines, I thought everyone was playing an extremely elaborate practical joke on me at first.
That's really disappointing, given the number of auto manufacturers who could and should be given the opportunity to pursue driverless cars without a by-your-leave from Google. I mean the idea has long been around in sci-fi, look at Arnie's Johnny cab in Total Recall. And it is just an idea at this point. It would be like patenting horseless carriages or something.
I like paying taxes, with them I buy civilisation. However I am increasingly disgusted and angered by the wanton waste and inefficiency of government and public sector expenditure, especially at a time when new and higher taxes and rates are being levied against me. I have the right to demand value for money. I'm not sure how I can claim that right in the absence of political representation that's not invested to the back teeth in the public sector, so here we are I guess.
You clearly don't know much about dogs, or you have a very wide scope of "similarly to a trained".
My dog exhibits behaviours I did not train into her. By referencing the experiences of other dog owners, trainers, and similar resources, I have found that most other dog breeds exhibit the same behaviour. For example, scratching at the ground or blanket before turning around and sleeping on it. Taking food and storing it. Digging in soil or sand. Besides what I have trained her to do, she's exactly the same as any other dog at a high level.
Yes, environment is crucially important. So is the genetic material you're working with. We don't even KNOW most of what's important, so this decade changing it would be a mistake...except in rare cases. OTOH, there are already too many people in the world. We are beyond the carrying capacity at any previously achieved cultural level, and are using resources unsustainably. So population control is a vital need. MAYBE after we build sustainable energy sources we could think about increasing the population again, but it would probably be a bad move.
You refer to "the consciousness and mind". When people are crowded together, struggling to make ends meed, the consciousness and mind are severely degraded. That's an environmental rather than a genetic effect, but it probably imposes epigenetic modification. (There's lots of evidence that this happens, but it would be unethical to do controlled studies.)
Seriously, Malthusians should probably avoid mixing it up with eugenics, you're only half a step away from Hugo Boss uniforms as it is. I've no intention of engaging with you however, as not only is it waaay off topic, it's clear from both the segue and degree of investment displayed by the definitive character of your comments that you're an individual who will change neither their mind nor the topic.
Its pretty cheeky alright, an $8.3 billion market, paid for by consumers, and now these guys want to push lawmakers to ensure that the people who pay the bills don't get to control the content. This is why I haven't watched TV in 3 years.
We've long since reached the point where "breeding" has a lot less to do with anything than environment. The consciousness and mind are what makes humans different from any other animal. A dog, in the absence of training, will behave similarly to a trained dog purely by instinct. A human without education of any sort raised by animals in the wild is a completely different creature to one educated by the best minds on earth. The advantages, if they even exist, of genetic selection by breeding are demonstrably too insignificant to justify any cost, let alone the monstrous cost that eugenics brings.
So what, it doesn't mean that there aren't a huge number of relatively talented people who will at last get on the global stage and be heard. This is the democratization of music my friend, the end of the monolithic model. Of those 5000, a couple of hundred decent ones will emerge, and of those, a couple of dozen will make it big, without the intervention of the record companies.
Slashdot was around before "blogs" gained any currency in the mainstream, and its a news feed with discussion forum attached, boyo. I guess you could call that a "Newsog" or something.
And after doing that I might decide to you know post it on slashdot. Which I did. I know RTFA is somewhat frowned upon in these parts, but at least try to RTFC like a good lad.
It sucks to be called out on being wrong? That's not a rhetorical question, BTW. The only difference between me and you is not necessarily amount of knowledge, but simply the fact I don't feel compelled to act like an asshat everytime I say something that is not quite correct.
a) there is nothing incorrect in anything I said and b) its usually people who are badly wrong, such as yourself, who then start getting all personal when they have noplace else to run.
I'm in the grip of a rare spasm of nerd rage here, stand well back. The Slaine-like warp paroxysms have already resulted in me demolishing my F5 key in an attempt to slashdot slashdot singlehanded. Roll me round in snow quick for gods' sake!
AMOLED SECRETS STOLEN! wtf is an amoled, probably some sort of oled, lets look that up and see whats what. Oh right, well I'll just post that on slash with a tut tut for the poor journalism that wasted my time searching for it. Cue bloggers up in arms over disparagement of blogs, cue comments saying it would have been easier to just look it up than to complain about it missing the behaviour modification benefits of complaints in terms of those offering a service, and we are done.
I did, champ. And then I came back and posted it to slashdot for all to admire, thus saving others the ongoing bother of having to search for it themselves, a courtesy I'd expect in advance from any site claiming to present the news to me. And who knows how many future shoddy performances I've prevented merely by complaining, since as everyone is aware, you don't improve things unless you open your mouth.
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I don't know which is sadder, that you're so ashamed of your own heritage or that there is so little memory of actual Irish culture amongst Irish Americans. The national motto is céad míle fáilte, a hundred thousand welcomes, and it holds as true today as ever, despite history, or perhaps because of it. Much has been lost. Northern Ireland is a completely different story mind you, it really is a different culture completely, for reasons I won't go into here.
Humans are as tribal as they want to be. In Ireland there has been a HUGE influx of immigrants from places like Eastern Europe and sub Saharan Africa, something like one in six people were born outside the country according to the most recent census. And this is just in the last ten or so years. Backlash? None. Rise of right wing groups? None. Race riots such as have graced the streets of most European countries and the UK? Zero. And if there's one thing guaranteed to bring out any latent xenophobia its a sudden massive influx of foreigners.
Its a very open and inclusive society. So much for the stereotypes.
FP!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHARGARBBBLE
(how'd that happen?)
From the sounds of it I'd say Great Cthulhu was involved.
From what I can tell they are using stuff that's already in the public domain. I really don't see how there's a legitimate complaint here. I mean if they are using the layout of copyrighted works, as in paragraph 3 and 8 have the same meaning in both works, maybe, but it doesn't look that way.
However Genesis basically points out that a lot of our pain in the world is based on our desire for knowledge
Personally my feeling is that our desire for knowledge has reduced pain. And tuberculosis. And smallpox. And the need to scavenge wood to make a cup of boiled nettles. And hey, even pain.
What state lost $2.5M to stupid Nigerian "You have been selected to win $100M dollars!" scams?
Nooo! No way. You are kidding me. That cannot be serious.
Galactica was pseudo religious military wank with a dash of body horror and a vague stab at challenging social issues like racism to be honest, an homage to the Bush era.
That is all.
Haha! In fairness though it must have felt like the end of the world. I remember the first time I experienced an earthquake in the Philippines, I thought everyone was playing an extremely elaborate practical joke on me at first.
That's really disappointing, given the number of auto manufacturers who could and should be given the opportunity to pursue driverless cars without a by-your-leave from Google. I mean the idea has long been around in sci-fi, look at Arnie's Johnny cab in Total Recall. And it is just an idea at this point. It would be like patenting horseless carriages or something.
I like paying taxes, with them I buy civilisation. However I am increasingly disgusted and angered by the wanton waste and inefficiency of government and public sector expenditure, especially at a time when new and higher taxes and rates are being levied against me. I have the right to demand value for money. I'm not sure how I can claim that right in the absence of political representation that's not invested to the back teeth in the public sector, so here we are I guess.
You clearly don't know much about dogs, or you have a very wide scope of "similarly to a trained".
My dog exhibits behaviours I did not train into her. By referencing the experiences of other dog owners, trainers, and similar resources, I have found that most other dog breeds exhibit the same behaviour. For example, scratching at the ground or blanket before turning around and sleeping on it. Taking food and storing it. Digging in soil or sand. Besides what I have trained her to do, she's exactly the same as any other dog at a high level.
Yes, environment is crucially important. So is the genetic material you're working with. We don't even KNOW most of what's important, so this decade changing it would be a mistake...except in rare cases. OTOH, there are already too many people in the world. We are beyond the carrying capacity at any previously achieved cultural level, and are using resources unsustainably. So population control is a vital need. MAYBE after we build sustainable energy sources we could think about increasing the population again, but it would probably be a bad move.
You refer to "the consciousness and mind". When people are crowded together, struggling to make ends meed, the consciousness and mind are severely degraded. That's an environmental rather than a genetic effect, but it probably imposes epigenetic modification. (There's lots of evidence that this happens, but it would be unethical to do controlled studies.)
Seriously, Malthusians should probably avoid mixing it up with eugenics, you're only half a step away from Hugo Boss uniforms as it is. I've no intention of engaging with you however, as not only is it waaay off topic, it's clear from both the segue and degree of investment displayed by the definitive character of your comments that you're an individual who will change neither their mind nor the topic.
That, and its Friday.
Its pretty cheeky alright, an $8.3 billion market, paid for by consumers, and now these guys want to push lawmakers to ensure that the people who pay the bills don't get to control the content. This is why I haven't watched TV in 3 years.
We've long since reached the point where "breeding" has a lot less to do with anything than environment. The consciousness and mind are what makes humans different from any other animal. A dog, in the absence of training, will behave similarly to a trained dog purely by instinct. A human without education of any sort raised by animals in the wild is a completely different creature to one educated by the best minds on earth. The advantages, if they even exist, of genetic selection by breeding are demonstrably too insignificant to justify any cost, let alone the monstrous cost that eugenics brings.
This is why I come to slashdot, and this alone.
So what, it doesn't mean that there aren't a huge number of relatively talented people who will at last get on the global stage and be heard. This is the democratization of music my friend, the end of the monolithic model. Of those 5000, a couple of hundred decent ones will emerge, and of those, a couple of dozen will make it big, without the intervention of the record companies.
Slashdot was around before "blogs" gained any currency in the mainstream, and its a news feed with discussion forum attached, boyo. I guess you could call that a "Newsog" or something.
Eh the wikipedia link and explanation are in the very first post there khyb, and it's your mummy's tit I'll be detaching from.
And after doing that I might decide to you know post it on slashdot. Which I did. I know RTFA is somewhat frowned upon in these parts, but at least try to RTFC like a good lad.
It sucks to be called out on being wrong? That's not a rhetorical question, BTW. The only difference between me and you is not necessarily amount of knowledge, but simply the fact I don't feel compelled to act like an asshat everytime I say something that is not quite correct.
a) there is nothing incorrect in anything I said and b) its usually people who are badly wrong, such as yourself, who then start getting all personal when they have noplace else to run.
The dollar goes abroad and wants 100% back, the flag follows the dollar, and the soldiers follow the flag.
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I'm in the grip of a rare spasm of nerd rage here, stand well back. The Slaine-like warp paroxysms have already resulted in me demolishing my F5 key in an attempt to slashdot slashdot singlehanded. Roll me round in snow quick for gods' sake!
AMOLED SECRETS STOLEN! wtf is an amoled, probably some sort of oled, lets look that up and see whats what. Oh right, well I'll just post that on slash with a tut tut for the poor journalism that wasted my time searching for it. Cue bloggers up in arms over disparagement of blogs, cue comments saying it would have been easier to just look it up than to complain about it missing the behaviour modification benefits of complaints in terms of those offering a service, and we are done.
Any questions.
As its coming from an Aussie, I'll file that under "standard issue social malformation" to be honest.
I did, champ. And then I came back and posted it to slashdot for all to admire, thus saving others the ongoing bother of having to search for it themselves, a courtesy I'd expect in advance from any site claiming to present the news to me. And who knows how many future shoddy performances I've prevented merely by complaining, since as everyone is aware, you don't improve things unless you open your mouth.
Got it?
Great.