He's probably a sociopath, who has no feelings for anyone, including his family. Anyway, they threw him out years ago for his anti-government activites. Bad for business. As for calling him a pussy, that would insult him, but it would probably blow your chances for a first date. Women don't like to be used as a perjorative.
Musharraf. He spent 9 years in Turkey as a kid. He got his military degree in the UK. He speaks English, Turkish, and Urdu that I know of. He became a commando & later commanded a commando unit. He is an expert in military strategy & history.(I'm a Yankee) Do you think Pakistan will trade presidents?
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I suspect that the most active terrorists are simply sociopaths, who have a need to hurt and kill and rationalize their anger, directing it at a specific group (especially because it gives them political power). There is more of Hitler than Ghandi in bin Laden. What message was Hitler sending Jews? While the US (I'm a Yankee) is guilty of meddling too much, Americans on the whole are not dancing whenever a Palestinian's house is bulldozed. We need to have it explained when we do wrong. Mostly we're a target because we're rich. This attack just gets us angry, not smarter.
Which facts, unknown to the Egyptians, are these? I grew up reading the bible. Rabbits chewing their cud? It didn't rain until the great flood? Sorry, I read that book several times over, and I'm with Darwin. Tell you what; you don't read your science in church literature & I won't look for your denomination's doctrine in biology texts.
My bad. I plead caffiene deprivation. It is indeed, New Zealand. Heh. New Guinea would probably protect most non-humans just from its terrain. And yes, the elephant bird is another ratite entirely. Once found in Madagascar, this huge fowl was apparently driven to extinction by... well, modesty forbids. See
http://www.aristotle.net/~swarmack/patra.html
to accept our role? The Giant Moa (elephant bird) went extinct in New Guinea & points east about a thousand years ago - right after humans showed up.These disappearances had nothing to do with climate change. Plains Indians were hunting buffalo (sometimes) by setting fires and driving whole herds off cliffs. A great waste. They didn't pick them off one at a time by horseback until they acquired the horse from the European invaders. (The American horse had disappeared about 10000 years earlier.) You think we couldn't kill a mammoth with a pit, or a glyptodont with poison tree frog arrows? I watched a film of the Kung! of the Kalahari (bushmen) kill a giraffe with sharp sticks (and poison). This has nothing to do with "guilt" BTW; several postings have brought this up and there will be more. It's just that it's stupid, and self-destructive. A simplified biosphere is less robust. Like a cyberlandscape with only one OS available... variety is more flexible, and adaptable, and interesting. Sure, the biosystem recovered from the dinosaur extinction, but it took a coupla million years.
Authorities *love* unenforceable laws; especially the unavoidable breaking of such laws... if we are all law-breakers, then they can harrass, threaten, punish, or lock away anyone who annoys them. But you weren't going to catch anyone's attention or annoy anyone importatnt, were you?
I got my BA in philosphy. I intended to get my PhD in Philosphy of the Mind, but I realized that none of those "Mind" philosphers paid any attention to the *Science* of the Mind. No neuroanatomy, no psychobiology. Idiots. I had one grad professor in Metaphysics tell me "there were no toy guns, because guns aren't toys" and "the Vikings didn't worship Woden, because Woden doesn't exist". Sheesh. Today I am sane; I am a *NIX SysAdmin. Someday I will get my MSCE and be on top of the heap. An engineer, right? Heh.
Woody Allen said "Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym".
I note that the law has incorrectly been applying the term "narcotics" to marijuana for years, but doctors and pharmacologists still use the term correctly.
For those who don't know, narcotics are that class of drugs related to opium: opium, methadone, heroin, morphine, codeine. This has no value judgement attached; it's a medical definition.
"hacking" implies a certain level of expertise. A 14 year-old can call himself a "kung fu master" all he wants; but it's still incorrect. Some crackers are hackers, but most are not. Most are *boring*.
And if you live in a bad neighborhood and get mugged walking to work, I should have no sympathy for you? You should have lived in a gated community, and driven to work in a nice car...
It must be nice to work for an outfit with unlimited resources. I'm a sysadmin, and my daily routine involves: user/tech help; buying, configuring, and upgrading terminals and desktops; upgrading the compilers, servers, programming languages, *NIX apps, windows patches, and EDI software; troubleshooting routers; backing up databases and system files; salesmen; evaluating new software; writing perl scripts to interact with users & the SQL database *and* print out inventory barcode labels & tags; also maintain the printers & order or buy supplies. NO, there is no one else. No, I'm not a PhD - if I were, my employer couldn't afford me. I'm supposed to keep up with some acne-scarred punk kid who has nothing better to do than probe for known exploits?
BTW, I hacked kung fu & escrima for 13 years before I started on computers (no money in street fighting). But I would show sympathy for you if you ran afoul of some mugger who's been practicing *his* art for years. As a pedestrian, shouldn't you be training daily? Well, no; most people have other things to do.
"Because ease is structured as an end in itself, not as a means to an end, those who embrace ease may not be able to move past it -- insuring
under-achievement."
This was kind of a nice summary. But the rest of it - ugh. A rambling discourse on radical feminism and Marxist deconstructionism. The iMac as an exploitation of females? Did I read that right? I have a transparent phone; I just thot it was cool. I didn't know it represented the "easy woman".
My honey & I have long admired those clear plastic washing machines in department stores (she's a geek). But they don't sell them like that.
Most people writing papers don't want to know a lot about computers, and they shouldn't have to. But they must understand how to download and find files, and the Micros~1 GUI doesn't help them. The file manager ("Explorer", the very name of which suggests chaos to be poked about in, rather than order to be displayed) can be set up to display files as a directory tree, but that's not the default.
And if I may rephrase the above quote: "Habitually lazy people are reluctant to admit that some things require work." (His English professor "pointed out" that his consideration of ease-of-use had an ideological basis. Sheesh. English majors.)
So a coupla scientists at MIT think we won't ever have computers with HAL's capabilities. Hmm. Didn't the great physicist Rutherford say that physics was a finished science? (We had, after all, discovered the electron... what else was left to do?) And using Jeremy Rifkin as evidence to claim that modern scientists have not been taught sufficiently strict skepticism? That Luddite is only evidence of Humanity's self-aggrandizing capabilities.
What is this guy's point? That scientists have too much imagination?
Metaphors: Wow, that's heavy. Whoops, over my head. Hard to grasp. Big idea. Stop, too fast! We can't even talk about metaphors without using them.
Many will say: what a boring world.
Therefore... what? It must be wrong because it bores *me*?
Many say: how dare you claim that nothing can exist outside of the range of your senses? But I for one believe in atoms. There is *evidence* for them. Which "things beyond our senses" should I believe in? Wodin? Invisible Pink Unicorns? Jesus?
And yes, I believe there is no god. (Gasp! But don't you know you might be wrong?) Sure. EVERY assertion (except arithmetic & tautologies) is uncertain. I believe in black holes, but this is not yet a given. Reasonable people say they believe in things when the *degree of certainty* reaches a certain point. I'll call myself an agnostic - there *might* be a God - when Oral Roberts says there *might* be a Zeus. Most "agnostics" have fallen for the bizarre fundamentalist belief that assertions can be known with certainty. Nope. Can't do it. We can only be pretty sure.
But my world isn't boring either. Some responses remind me of the junky roommate I had in the sixties. He thot his world would be empty without morphine, but I just saw his as more constrained & limited.
Preliminary comments: "Science" will never catch on. These open-source fact finders ("scientists") making important discoveries and then *sharing* them? For, what?...status? for fun? Get real! These folks have to get paid. Sharing knowledge gained thru hard work will never lead anywhere.
That off my chest, I make this prediction: in five years, whatever happens, we will all think that, in retrospect, it was obvious. And we will all claim that we knew it all along.
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He's probably a sociopath, who has no feelings for anyone, including his family. Anyway, they threw him out years ago for his anti-government activites. Bad for business. As for calling him a pussy, that would insult him, but it would probably blow your chances for a first date. Women don't like to be used as a perjorative.
Musharraf. He spent 9 years in Turkey as a kid. He got his military degree in the UK. He speaks English, Turkish, and Urdu that I know of. He became a commando & later commanded a commando unit. He is an expert in military strategy & history.(I'm a Yankee) Do you think Pakistan will trade presidents?
I suspect that the most active terrorists are simply sociopaths, who have a need to hurt and kill and rationalize their anger, directing it at a specific group (especially because it gives them political power). There is more of Hitler than Ghandi in bin Laden. What message was Hitler sending Jews? While the US (I'm a Yankee) is guilty of meddling too much, Americans on the whole are not dancing whenever a Palestinian's house is bulldozed. We need to have it explained when we do wrong. Mostly we're a target because we're rich. This attack just gets us angry, not smarter.
Which facts, unknown to the Egyptians, are these? I grew up reading the bible. Rabbits chewing their cud? It didn't rain until the great flood? Sorry, I read that book several times over, and I'm with Darwin. Tell you what; you don't read your science in church literature & I won't look for your denomination's doctrine in biology texts.
The penultimate illusion of my childhood has been shattered. Next you'll be telling me that santa isn't real. sigh.
My bad. I plead caffiene deprivation. It is indeed, New Zealand. Heh. New Guinea would probably protect most non-humans just from its terrain. And yes, the elephant bird is another ratite entirely. Once found in Madagascar, this huge fowl was apparently driven to extinction by... well, modesty forbids. See http://www.aristotle.net/~swarmack/patra.html
to accept our role? The Giant Moa (elephant bird) went extinct in New Guinea & points east about a thousand years ago - right after humans showed up.These disappearances had nothing to do with climate change. Plains Indians were hunting buffalo (sometimes) by setting fires and driving whole herds off cliffs. A great waste. They didn't pick them off one at a time by horseback until they acquired the horse from the European invaders. (The American horse had disappeared about 10000 years earlier.) You think we couldn't kill a mammoth with a pit, or a glyptodont with poison tree frog arrows? I watched a film of the Kung! of the Kalahari (bushmen) kill a giraffe with sharp sticks (and poison). This has nothing to do with "guilt" BTW; several postings have brought this up and there will be more. It's just that it's stupid, and self-destructive. A simplified biosphere is less robust. Like a cyberlandscape with only one OS available... variety is more flexible, and adaptable, and interesting. Sure, the biosystem recovered from the dinosaur extinction, but it took a coupla million years.
Authorities *love* unenforceable laws; especially the unavoidable breaking of such laws... if we are all law-breakers, then they can harrass, threaten, punish, or lock away anyone who annoys them. But you weren't going to catch anyone's attention or annoy anyone importatnt, were you?
I got my BA in philosphy. I intended to get my PhD in Philosphy of the Mind, but I realized that none of those "Mind" philosphers paid any attention to the *Science* of the Mind. No neuroanatomy, no psychobiology. Idiots. I had one grad professor in Metaphysics tell me "there were no toy guns, because guns aren't toys" and "the Vikings didn't worship Woden, because Woden doesn't exist". Sheesh. Today I am sane; I am a *NIX SysAdmin. Someday I will get my MSCE and be on top of the heap. An engineer, right? Heh. Woody Allen said "Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach, teach gym".
She will continue to bless the US, but will likely smack you down for your continued refusal to seek therapy.
For those who don't know, narcotics are that class of drugs related to opium: opium, methadone, heroin, morphine, codeine. This has no value judgement attached; it's a medical definition.
"hacking" implies a certain level of expertise. A 14 year-old can call himself a "kung fu master" all he wants; but it's still incorrect. Some crackers are hackers, but most are not. Most are *boring*.
It must be nice to work for an outfit with unlimited resources. I'm a sysadmin, and my daily routine involves: user/tech help; buying, configuring, and upgrading terminals and desktops; upgrading the compilers, servers, programming languages, *NIX apps, windows patches, and EDI software; troubleshooting routers; backing up databases and system files; salesmen; evaluating new software; writing perl scripts to interact with users & the SQL database *and* print out inventory barcode labels & tags; also maintain the printers & order or buy supplies. NO, there is no one else. No, I'm not a PhD - if I were, my employer couldn't afford me. I'm supposed to keep up with some acne-scarred punk kid who has nothing better to do than probe for known exploits?
BTW, I hacked kung fu & escrima for 13 years before I started on computers (no money in street fighting). But I would show sympathy for you if you ran afoul of some mugger who's been practicing *his* art for years. As a pedestrian, shouldn't you be training daily? Well, no; most people have other things to do.
This was kind of a nice summary. But the rest of it - ugh. A rambling discourse on radical feminism and Marxist deconstructionism. The iMac as an exploitation of females? Did I read that right? I have a transparent phone; I just thot it was cool. I didn't know it represented the "easy woman". My honey & I have long admired those clear plastic washing machines in department stores (she's a geek). But they don't sell them like that .
Most people writing papers don't want to know a lot about computers, and they shouldn't have to. But they must understand how to download and find files, and the Micros~1 GUI doesn't help them. The file manager ("Explorer", the very name of which suggests chaos to be poked about in, rather than order to be displayed) can be set up to display files as a directory tree, but that's not the default.
And if I may rephrase the above quote: "Habitually lazy people are reluctant to admit that some things require work." (His English professor "pointed out" that his consideration of ease-of-use had an ideological basis. Sheesh. English majors.)
What is this guy's point? That scientists have too much imagination?
Metaphors: Wow, that's heavy. Whoops, over my head. Hard to grasp. Big idea. Stop, too fast! We can't even talk about metaphors without using them.
Many say: how dare you claim that nothing can exist outside of the range of your senses? But I for one believe in atoms. There is *evidence* for them. Which "things beyond our senses" should I believe in? Wodin? Invisible Pink Unicorns? Jesus?
And yes, I believe there is no god. (Gasp! But don't you know you might be wrong?) Sure. EVERY assertion (except arithmetic & tautologies) is uncertain. I believe in black holes, but this is not yet a given. Reasonable people say they believe in things when the *degree of certainty* reaches a certain point. I'll call myself an agnostic - there *might* be a God - when Oral Roberts says there *might* be a Zeus. Most "agnostics" have fallen for the bizarre fundamentalist belief that assertions can be known with certainty. Nope. Can't do it. We can only be pretty sure.
But my world isn't boring either. Some responses remind me of the junky roommate I had in the sixties. He thot his world would be empty without morphine, but I just saw his as more constrained & limited.
Preliminary comments: "Science" will never catch on. These open-source fact finders ("scientists") making important discoveries and then *sharing* them? For, what? ...status? for fun? Get real! These folks have to get paid. Sharing knowledge gained thru hard work will never lead anywhere.
That off my chest, I make this prediction: in five years, whatever happens, we will all think that, in retrospect, it was obvious. And we will all claim that we knew it all along.