This America bashing is just silly, I mean without what we've done here you wouldn't have the internet, and you also wouldn't have airplanes, light bulbs, radio, television, spaceships, skyscrapers, video games, or democracy.
Not bad for a bunch of people who can't find their own country on a map.
You won't get any argument from me on one point you America-haters have been making, any attempt to regulate the internet is just stupid. Americans fought and died (remember Breed's Hill) in order to get a Bill of Rights to try to prevent such stupidity. I don't believe in restricting people's freedom because of what they *might* do. I apply the same principle to gun ownership.
As far as the 'anti american sentiment' in Canada, don't worry, it doesn't bother us. They hate us all over the world, but they keep on buying American because we've got the stuff.
As far as being an 'over populated second rate nation', we would be much more over populated if we opened our borders to anyone who wanted to come here, which I for one think we should do. We would have two thirds of the world living here in a week if we opened our borders, let them in, it'll be cool.
I mean, if you like Canada that's great. As for America, considering we are a nation of convicts, rejects, and people who can't find their own country on a map, I think we've done pretty well for ourselves.
I have, and I have no idea what you're talking about.
What I believe he's talking about, in reference to LSD in connection with multithreading, is the fact that the human brain, on a non-trivial dose of LSD (or to a lesser extent, the tryptamines i.e. psilocybin, DMT) is an example of multithreading gone out of control.
Each external stimuli starts a new thread, but for the LSD victim, there is no kill command available. The result is much the same as it would be in a computer that continued to spawn processes with no ability to terminate them. As each process demands its clock cycles, each process runs slower and slower in real time. This is experienced by the LSD victim as 'time slowing down, dude'.
As the number of processes continues to increase, the victim is able to give consideration to more and more external stimuli, leading to the discovery of concepts never before entertained, such as 'wow, compact discs are so small they fit in your hand', and 'there is air on the moon, dude'.
Eventually, the brain is dragged to a halt, each of one trillion processes demanding it's share of the processing unit's time. No meaningful computation can be performed at this point. The LSD vicitm's mind interprets this phenomenon as 'white light dude. I'm seein' God'.
In the final stage, the ability to kill processes begins to reappear. One by one the threads are shut down, so that by 11 hours after the time the drug was administered, but two processes are left running.
1) I've definitely gotta trip again next week and 2) I've been thinkin' about movin' to Austin
"You know I've been here before, and I don't like it anymore........." -Spiritualized
What our forefathers did to the native Americans was inexcusable. What Hitler did to the Russians,Gypsies, Jews, and other minorities was inexcusable. What the Serbian nationalists did to the Bosnians and the Croatians was inexcusable, and what they are doing right now to the Kosovars is inexcusable.
You mention what Hitler did to the Jews and the Gypsies, why do you fail to mention the half million Serbs who died in concentration camps run by the Bosnians and Croats at Hitler's bidding?
You mention the atrocities committed by the Serbs against the Bosnians and Croats in recent years, yet you fail to mention the 1.3 million Serbs run out of Croatia, an action which the U.S. supported politically and financially. You fail to mention that Bosnian Serbs in areas that are majority Serb were bombed to prevent them from exercising their right of self-determination, a right we now say the Kosovars should have.
Why do you fail to mention the atrocities commited by Albanians in Kosovo throughout the 1980's?
How many Albanian Kosovars died at the hands of the Serbs before the bombing started? An editorial in the New York Times said that a total of 64 Kosovars were killed in the three months before the bombing began. I see in the news today that NATO killed a 100 Kosovar civilians last night.
Why do I defend the Serbs? The Serbs stood up to Adolf Hitler when no one else would. While the Bosnians and Croats shook hands with Hitler and did his dirty work in the concentration camps of World War Two, the Serbs fought. When the British wouldn't, when the Americans wouldn't, with no chance of winning, and at great cost to themselves, the Serbs stood up to Hitler.
I seriously, honestly cannot understand why we hate the Serbs so much. They are not doing anything that hasn't been done to them, both recently and in the distant past, and when it was being done to them, we either ignored it or helped those who were doing it.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I just can't seem to get myself whipped up into a bloodthirsty frenzy over a civil war in a completely unimportant backwater of Europe where atrocities are being committed on all sides.
And now they're using my tax dollars to commit them.
Most people don't stay at jobs they hate because they're responsible.
They stay at jobs they hate because they're lazy and weak and scared.
And, as I have no friends, family, religion or moral principles to give blame or credit for any situation I put myself in, I consider myself one of the more responsible people around.
If you think responsibility means dealing with situations you hate for the rest of your life, well that's your prison, not mine.
I can't believe this crap, all these people whining about how their jobs suck but for some ridiculous reason or another they just can't leave, you all remind me of the people in the factory where I worked paying my way through the first few years of college until I could start getting programming jobs.
You whine and whine and whine and do nothing else and then get up in the morning and go to the jobs you hate, what a bunch of whipped puppies.
It's all real simple. I don't know why I'm even telling you because it's probably too simple for you supposed geniuses to understand.
If you hate your job here's what you do: you take a walk out the door. It's easy. Just walk away.
Same thing goes for everything else, your career, your family, your religion, your country, could be anything, doesn't matter, if it doesn't work, and you can't fix it, throw it against the wall, cuss at it, toss it in the trash and walk away. If you have the right job, you don't care, you just want more work. You don't care that you have no friends, that your girlfriend left you, that you're destroying your wrists, that you don't even feel like a human anymore, you don't care about that, you want more code to write. If you've never had a job like that, I pity you.
If you don't love your job, walk away. Life's too short. Throw old things away.
If you really hate high school, but are a good student, see if there's a chance you can graduate early. A friend of mine skipped 11th grade by taking English in summer school. Just think, one less year of torture...
That's what I did. Dropped out when I was sixteen and tested into college. It saved me from having to burn the damn high school down. If you can't understand why the kids did what they did, then you are probably one of the things that make kids like that do what they did.
But until you're sixteen there's really nothing you can do about it. Don't let them change you, don't let them scare you, tell them 'Fuck you' every chance you get and take your beatings like a man.
Then leave as soon as you can and don't look back.
1) America can't take casualties, Serbia can. We cry like babies because three soldiers get captured. In World War One, between war casualties and disease, Serbia lost two thirds of the adult male population (The Serbs, Tim Judah, Yale University Press, 1997). In World War Two they lost millions more, somewhere between 100,000 and a million of them killed in concentration camps by Bosnians and Croats.
Life went on.
2) Many of those Serbs who died in World War Two had their heads chopped off by Kosovan Albanians (Same source as above pp. 100-01). Paybacks suck.
3) By comparing Milosevic to Hitler you ignore the fact that the only people in Yugoslavia to stand up to Hitler in WW2 were the Serbs. The Bosnians didn't. The Croats didn't. The Albanians didn't.
4) True, bombing won't work. Troops on the ground won't work either, unless you're willing to send in millions of them and leave them there until the sun explodes or until all the Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, and Albanians are dead.
Let's just wish them luck, sell them guns, and may the best man win.
I disagree, Milosovic is nothing if not rational. Here's the equation:
Choice 1: Give up Kosovo peacefully, the only alternative the U.S. will accept.
Choice 2: Fight, and maybe keep Kosovo, or at least part of it, and even if you lose you kill some ethnic Albanians and gain the support of your people who even if they do not particularly like you, like being bombed even less.
Now, keeping in mind that Kosovo happens to contain some sites that are as holy to Serbs as the Alamo is to Texans (and for the same reasons) what do you, as a rational leader, do?
You fight. It's a no-lose proposition.
There was an excellent article on the BBC news site before the bombing started that spelled out what was going to happen, and so far it has been 100% right.
Don't take this post as an endorsement in any way of the Serbian atrocities, but over the last 100 years, all sides in Yugoslavia have been guilty of the same things. Definitely not worth my bombing money.
re: New backbones that take years to plan, approve, and bury are instantly saturated by the time they go online and there's no solution to the infinite recursion in sight. Exactly right - it's just like building roads. Engineers say that if you build a new highway, within a few years it will be used at 120% of capacity, no matter where you build it. All that happens when you build new roads or add lanes to old roads is that people can live farther from where they work, and they can drive more. It doesn't matter how much bandwidth the internet can handle, it's ALWAYS gonna be slow.
The ancient Romans had a communications network that could get messages from the capital to the frontier in a matter of minutes. They built towers along their roads within line of sight of each other, say every five or ten miles, and signalled each other by flag or mirror or something. Not very high tech but not bad for a couple thousand years ago. (They invented the steam engine too.)
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This America bashing is just silly, I mean without what we've done here you wouldn't have the internet, and you also wouldn't have airplanes, light bulbs, radio, television, spaceships, skyscrapers, video games, or democracy.
Not bad for a bunch of people who can't find their own country on a map.
You won't get any argument from me on one point you America-haters have been making, any attempt to regulate the internet is just stupid. Americans fought and died (remember Breed's Hill) in order to get a Bill of Rights to try to prevent such stupidity. I don't believe in restricting people's freedom because of what they *might* do. I apply the same principle to gun ownership.
As far as the 'anti american sentiment' in Canada, don't worry, it doesn't bother us. They hate us all over the world, but they keep on buying American because we've got the stuff.
As far as being an 'over populated second rate nation', we would be much more over populated if we opened our borders to anyone who wanted to come here, which I for one think we should do. We would have two thirds of the world living here in a week if we opened our borders, let them in, it'll be cool.
I mean, if you like Canada that's great. As for America, considering we are a nation of convicts, rejects, and people who can't find their own country on a map, I think we've done pretty well for ourselves.
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I have, and I have no idea what you're talking about.
What I believe he's talking about, in reference to LSD in connection with multithreading, is the fact that the human brain, on a non-trivial dose of LSD (or to a lesser extent, the tryptamines i.e. psilocybin, DMT) is an example of multithreading gone out of control.
Each external stimuli starts a new thread, but for the LSD victim, there is no kill command available. The result is much the same as it would be in a computer that continued to spawn processes with no ability to terminate them. As each process demands its clock cycles, each process runs slower and slower in real time. This is experienced by the LSD victim as 'time slowing down, dude'.
As the number of processes continues to increase, the victim is able to give consideration to more and more external stimuli, leading to the discovery of concepts never before entertained, such as 'wow, compact discs are so small they fit in your hand', and 'there is air on the moon, dude'.
Eventually, the brain is dragged to a halt, each of one trillion processes demanding it's share of the processing unit's time. No meaningful computation can be performed at this point. The LSD vicitm's mind interprets this phenomenon as 'white light dude. I'm seein' God'.
In the final stage, the ability to kill processes begins to reappear. One by one the threads are shut down, so that by 11 hours after the time the drug was administered, but two processes are left running.
1) I've definitely gotta trip again next week
and 2) I've been thinkin' about movin' to Austin
"You know I've been here before, and I don't like it anymore........." -Spiritualized
What our forefathers did to the native Americans was inexcusable. What Hitler did to the Russians,Gypsies, Jews, and other minorities was inexcusable. What the Serbian nationalists did to the Bosnians and the Croatians was inexcusable, and what they are doing right now to the Kosovars is inexcusable.
You mention what Hitler did to the Jews and the Gypsies, why do you fail to mention the half million Serbs who died in concentration camps run by the Bosnians and Croats at Hitler's bidding?
You mention the atrocities committed by the Serbs against the Bosnians and Croats in recent years, yet you fail to mention the 1.3 million Serbs run out of Croatia, an action which the U.S. supported politically and financially. You fail to mention that Bosnian Serbs in areas that are majority Serb were bombed to prevent them from exercising their right of self-determination, a right we now say the Kosovars should have.
Why do you fail to mention the atrocities commited by Albanians in Kosovo throughout the 1980's?
How many Albanian Kosovars died at the hands of the Serbs before the bombing started? An editorial in the New York Times said that a total of 64 Kosovars were killed in the three months before the bombing began. I see in the news today that NATO killed a 100 Kosovar civilians last night.
Why do I defend the Serbs? The Serbs stood up to Adolf Hitler when no one else would. While the Bosnians and Croats shook hands with Hitler and did his dirty work in the concentration camps of World War Two, the Serbs fought. When the British wouldn't, when the Americans wouldn't, with no chance of winning, and at great cost to themselves, the Serbs stood up to Hitler.
I seriously, honestly cannot understand why we hate the Serbs so much. They are not doing anything that hasn't been done to them, both recently and in the distant past, and when it was being done to them, we either ignored it or helped those who were doing it.
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I just can't seem to get myself whipped up into a bloodthirsty frenzy over a civil war in a completely unimportant backwater of Europe where atrocities are being committed on all sides.
And now they're using my tax dollars to commit them.
'Only the dead have seen the end of war'
Most people don't stay at jobs they hate because they're responsible.
They stay at jobs they hate because they're lazy and weak and scared.
And, as I have no friends, family, religion or moral principles to give blame or credit for any situation I put myself in, I consider myself one of the more responsible people around.
If you think responsibility means dealing with situations you hate for the rest of your life, well that's your prison, not mine.
what a bunch of whiners.........
I can't believe this crap, all these people whining about how their jobs suck but for some ridiculous reason or another they just can't leave,
you all remind me of the people in the factory where I worked paying my way through the first few years of college until I could start getting programming jobs.
You whine and whine and whine and do nothing else and then get up in the morning and go to the jobs you hate, what a bunch of whipped puppies.
It's all real simple. I don't know why I'm even telling you because it's probably too simple for you supposed geniuses to understand.
If you hate your job here's what you do:
you take a walk out the door.
It's easy.
Just walk away.
Same thing goes for everything else, your career, your family, your religion, your country, could be anything, doesn't matter, if it doesn't work, and you can't fix it, throw it against the wall, cuss at it, toss it in the trash and walk away.
If you have the right job, you don't care, you just want more work. You don't care that you have no friends, that your girlfriend left you, that you're destroying your wrists, that you don't even feel like a human anymore, you don't care about that, you want more code to write. If you've never had a job like that, I pity you.
If you don't love your job, walk away. Life's too short. Throw old things away.
If you really hate high school, but are a good student, see if there's a chance you can graduate early. A friend of mine skipped 11th grade by taking English in summer school. Just think, one less year of torture...
That's what I did. Dropped out when I was sixteen and tested into college. It saved me from having to burn the damn high school down. If you can't understand why the kids did what they did, then you are probably one of the things that make kids like that do what they did.
But until you're sixteen there's really nothing you can do about it. Don't let them change you, don't let them scare you, tell them 'Fuck you' every chance you get and take your beatings like a man.
Then leave as soon as you can and don't look back.
A few points here:
1) America can't take casualties, Serbia can. We cry like babies because three soldiers get captured. In World War One, between war casualties and disease, Serbia lost two thirds of the adult male population (The Serbs, Tim Judah, Yale University Press, 1997). In World War Two they lost millions more, somewhere between 100,000 and a million of them killed in concentration camps by Bosnians and Croats.
Life went on.
2) Many of those Serbs who died in World War Two had their heads chopped off by Kosovan Albanians (Same source as above pp. 100-01). Paybacks suck.
3) By comparing Milosevic to Hitler you ignore the fact that the only people in Yugoslavia to stand up to Hitler in WW2 were the Serbs. The Bosnians didn't. The Croats didn't. The Albanians didn't.
4) True, bombing won't work. Troops on the ground won't work either, unless you're willing to send in millions of them and leave them there until the sun explodes or until all the Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, and Albanians are dead.
Let's just wish them luck, sell them guns, and may the best man win.
It was easy to convince the American public that going to war in Europe in World War II was in the national best interest?
Give me a break.
As a younger and wiser nation, we stayed out of wars as long as we could. We should do the same now.
In World War Two, Japan made the decision for us.
I disagree, Milosovic is nothing if not rational. Here's the equation:
Choice 1: Give up Kosovo peacefully, the only alternative the U.S. will accept.
Choice 2: Fight, and maybe keep Kosovo, or at least part of it, and even if you lose you kill some ethnic Albanians and gain the support of your people who even if they do not particularly like you, like being bombed even less.
Now, keeping in mind that Kosovo happens to contain some sites that are as holy to Serbs as the Alamo is to Texans (and for the same reasons) what do you, as a rational leader, do?
You fight. It's a no-lose proposition.
There was an excellent article on the BBC news site before the bombing started that spelled out what was going to happen, and so far it has been 100% right.
Don't take this post as an endorsement in any way of the Serbian atrocities, but over the last 100 years, all sides in Yugoslavia have been guilty of the same things. Definitely not worth my bombing money.
re: New backbones that take years to plan, approve, and bury are instantly saturated by the time they go online and there's no solution to the infinite recursion in sight. Exactly right - it's just like building roads. Engineers say that if you build a new highway, within a few years it will be used at 120% of capacity, no matter where you build it. All that happens when you build new roads or add lanes to old roads is that people can live farther from where they work, and they can drive more. It doesn't matter how much bandwidth the internet can handle, it's ALWAYS gonna be slow.
The ancient Romans had a communications network that could get messages from the capital to the frontier in a matter of minutes. They built towers along their roads within line of sight of each other, say every five or ten miles, and signalled each other by flag or mirror or something. Not very high tech but not bad for a couple thousand years ago. (They invented the steam engine too.)