Maybe given that it is the holiday season a subset of users of such services decided to spend time with real people like real friends and family for a change? You know, instead of the hundreds of 'friends' they've never even met?
"Poll Data" == "The opinions of the small handful of pre-selected individuals residing in a particular geographic who have a landline phone and are home to answer it at 1 PM on a weekday."
So in other words?...
[Your senile grandmother's, your unemployed brother-in-law's, and a four-year-old's] View of the TSA More Positive Than Negative.
So if the opinions are similar for both groups, then how safe is it to assume that both group's perspectives are influenced by a third-party (e.g. media) and not based upon their experiences and observations with the TSA?
No, his argument is predicated on the notion that someone from Pennsylvania (few gun laws) would travel to Philadelphia, (strict laws), DC, or New York City.
Civilization is a cancer and the currency is vice, consumption, and slavery. Individually and as a community, mankind has great potential of both; we are both made of good and evil, construction and destruction. What we lack is purpose; purpose for either good or evil. Progression these days is based purely from ignorance and our insatiable appetite, therefore evil. Not to mention that it's supported solely by warfare.
Pretty much this whole thread is filled with immature responses from those who have never felt and lived a day in their life, who have never made love, who have never felt a great calling nor do they look upon the stars as a common man would; those who have never felt joy or pain. When's the last time you looked at the moon and prayed, morned? That's what common men do. The common man has worked, bled, died in the face of it; casting his spirit upwards. There is power in this.
I recall a story in which Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell witnessed the implosion of a star through a large telescope surrounded by white-coat scientists. Henry and Lawrence grew in glee and started shouting poems and songs at large. As Henry Miller put it, mas o menus, it was like seeing a rose-grenade thrown through a holy stained-glass window.
Occupying another planet is simply your wet dream. The scientists themselves are simply satiating their curiosity, and this is good. Treat it jubilantly for the beauty that it is and keep your dirty filthy paws off of it.
Suns have a lot of light noise too, so we probably wouldn't see a laser transmitter either, unless it were from the very edge of the system.
Noise? No. Sound? Yes. It is precisely how we understand our own sun. It is not by light but by sound.
There is a nice lecture titled "Songs of the Stars" by Don Kurtz from the University of Central Lancashire. It can be found here: http://feeds.tvo.org/tvobigideas
The podcast is called Stellar Seismology. Enjoy.
Shakespeare, among all other poets and artists, was correct. Even the dead poets and artists are still light years ahead of the early 20th century scientist. Modern scientists are just a regression of their predecessor; there are very few scientists today who merit such a title.
For certain places, such as Chicago, NYC or Washington DC, it's pretty hard for anyone to get any weapon. Of course, those are also the places with the highest gun violence rates. Odd, that.
Citation please. NYC is one of the lowest in the nation.
You mean, if you stole another person's child and debilitated them and locked them up in your house for the rest of their life? That's the equivalent and not the analogy you smugly suggested.
I am a pet owner and the fucking best at training animals; a whisperer of sorts. You must do things for your animals that are momentarily discomforting for them, but this an irrational comparison towards child-rearing and clipping a bird's wings is just that... irrational.
You are however both being sensational yet raise some deep philosophical issues albeit unintentionally.
I agree with you points except for... I don't think you have to be a PETA supporter to be against neutering cats and dogs too or at least sensibly understanding the cruelty of it.
Really, if you can't understand the cruelty of it, than *you* shouldn't be a pet owner.
Almost every great writer has written our non-intentional cruelty towards animals.
Not all things people do to pets are for the sake of cruelty. In fact, I would argue that the vast, VAST majority of things we do for pets is because we love them, and it's better for them.
Bullshit. Ever seen a dog in the city and how unhappy it is? Ever been to San Francisco? How almost every single person who owns a dog in the city is mentally, emotionally unstable and are tyrannical as a human being? I grew up in the country with dogs and I can tell you the VAST difference. Some people are just too emotionally stunted to actually love another creature. Other times, these dogs (especially thoroughbreds) are just a piece of property and disposable.
The vast majority of times people are simply satisfying their selfish need for "love" (possession) with no regard towards the animal's well-being.
It's inspiring to see how many comments are now reusing the fitting term "wage slavery." I'm glad I inspired that in my past AC comments and to see it now spreading.
I'll chime in because the GP/AC just displayed a great deal of stupidity and didn't understand the OP's question.
The AC's analogies are not limiting innate freedom of movement, but rather are improving or facilitating. His/her analogy of child-rearing is so far off-topic that it's irrational.
The AC should take a moment to actually read and consider than being another angry, stupid person on/.
I don't see what everyone's hang-up is with this. It's an easy mistake of semantics, subtle nonetheless.
What needs to first be determined is whether stating publicly they were "serving nearly 1 billion hours per month" a *few weeks* before makes their *privately* announced statement "customers watched 'over 1 billion hours' of videos on Netflix in June" immaterially.
Of course, I think the SEC has better things to do but the investigation is legit.
The only hope for this to happen is for the average citizen to become better educated and thus better able to see through the nationalistic bullshit of worshipping the U.S. Constitution and the men who founded this country
Better educated, yes. Less nationalism, yes. More American, yes. Before you say that is a contradiction, let me explain that our American ancestry, how brief it may be, is written upon empathy, and embodies faith in ourselves, our sisters and brothers, and even our enemies.
Shall I remind you of the introduction? I think many need to be reminded of it.
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and the Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Read that carefully. Notice the second half of it. How does that fair with modern-day Republicans (whatever fucking hybrid of nationalism and fascism they are)? You see, the wisest and oldest generations alive still have a parent who remembers the days of Lincoln. The *real* Republican party. Hell, you don't have to reach so far back, the Republican party today calls Ronald Reagan a socialist.
Now, let's go back to the very beginning. Let's just go back to the words and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson or to the atheists who founded this country (all you/. kids will get a kick out of that-- grow up). Thomas Jefferson's real issue was poverty. Maybe some historian can chime in, but I will speak from a philosophical point-of-view. Jefferson dared to consider the problem of poverty at a Christ-like level; and it is safe to say he would be both supportive and doubtful of the modern-day social programs we have. However, it wasn't just the politicians but the writers and poets that mattered most in the shaping of the USofA. Take Emerson for instance. Or rather, take the Iroqouis and the great white tree of peace.
It really baffles me how my peers are so detached with what a democracy or a republic is like *in action*. The president is merely to stand for all of us, with all our contradictions and harmonies, and to be a grounded pillar to counter our bickering houses and senates; it is more a position of responsibility than it is of power.
It is so fucking disgusting that social issues, just like Obama had stated as a young senator, are used to "create a wedge" between us. Remember that? That's when I knew he was going to be elected. He was greeted with an undying ovation.
This is a scattered rant in response to a rant, but I'll still post. I leave you with One thing else that is missing is objective journalism. I dare say, it is the primary power we've lost in balancing the government for the people.
Is it possible to fully comprehend the world scientifically, and foster a mechanistic perception of the universe, and still foster a faith at the same time?
I don't think the quotation is applicable. A fool doesn't equal a stupid person. It is more likely that Blake is speaking from his own internalization. After all, he did persist as a poet without recognition. What greater folly is there?
Yeah, it's impressive. Almost nothing grows so fast as seaweed. Given the recent lesson of Japan tsunami debris we could probably just let an Algae farm go from Japan and harvest it on the West Coast of the US as it grew drifting across the open ocean. No need for fertilization, or weed management or any other service. Maybe other types of open sea aquaculture too like fish pens or mussel farms. In fact, by mixing the types the algae promote other sea life like plankton that the fish eat, and the fish feces feed the mussels and provide nitrogen for the algae, leveraging the lifecycle even more. And the mussels make mussel shells, which are primarily CaCO3 - so they reliably capture CO2 in a form that isn't readily released again. We can eat the seaweed, feed it to cattle, or process it for fuel - and it's useful for industrial chemical uses as well. The fish are protein. Probably get a good bit of bycatch as well like crabs, and no doubt shrimp and other types of sea life will swarm about the periphery of the farms. These farms could cover whole square miles each and work the ocean 150 feet deep. And we could work hundreds of thousands, or millions of them at a time - and feed the world's growing population for another hundred years.
Add some solar powered geotracking satellite comm tech and shipping warning systems and we could put near-unlimited tracts of Pacific Ocean under agriculture. Wherever the farms wander, when it's time we can go harvest them. And then we can give those ships from China something to take back with them besides coal: the rigging framework the open sea farms are made of.
We do need some new international agreements though to make it work because right now anybody who wanders out and catches such a thing on the open ocean is free to harvest it.
I would like to see an experiment taken with just one buoy with a 100m cable drop supporting a ladder of buoyancy neutral arms 100 meters long every 20 meters or so of depth seeded with seaweed and mussels and dropped off of Japan in a current likely to take it to the US west coast. Let it go and see what you get. I'm thinking it would turn into a seaweedburg of epic proportions: a 100m radius, 100m deep cylinder of biomass rich in all forms of sea life, completely surrounded by a diverse variety of ocean creature feeding off it and its detritus.
Slashdot Mirror
But how do you capture the memory with a filter?
So a sensational article covering a sensational article about something that had no basis of claim.
Now for my next favorite past time: sticking my head in a plastic bag taped-shut while running.
So in other words?... [Your senile grandmother's, your unemployed brother-in-law's, and a four-year-old's] View of the TSA More Positive Than Negative.
So if the opinions are similar for both groups, then how safe is it to assume that both group's perspectives are influenced by a third-party (e.g. media) and not based upon their experiences and observations with the TSA?
Just take a look at St. Louis. It has the highest violent crime rates per capita in the country and some of the loosest gun laws.
No, his argument is predicated on the notion that someone from Pennsylvania (few gun laws) would travel to Philadelphia, (strict laws), DC, or New York City.
This happens frequently.
Civilization is a cancer and the currency is vice, consumption, and slavery. Individually and as a community, mankind has great potential of both; we are both made of good and evil, construction and destruction. What we lack is purpose; purpose for either good or evil. Progression these days is based purely from ignorance and our insatiable appetite, therefore evil. Not to mention that it's supported solely by warfare.
Pretty much this whole thread is filled with immature responses from those who have never felt and lived a day in their life, who have never made love, who have never felt a great calling nor do they look upon the stars as a common man would; those who have never felt joy or pain. When's the last time you looked at the moon and prayed, morned? That's what common men do. The common man has worked, bled, died in the face of it; casting his spirit upwards. There is power in this.
I recall a story in which Henry Miller and Lawrence Durrell witnessed the implosion of a star through a large telescope surrounded by white-coat scientists. Henry and Lawrence grew in glee and started shouting poems and songs at large. As Henry Miller put it, mas o menus, it was like seeing a rose-grenade thrown through a holy stained-glass window.
Occupying another planet is simply your wet dream. The scientists themselves are simply satiating their curiosity, and this is good. Treat it jubilantly for the beauty that it is and keep your dirty filthy paws off of it.
Do you always open your mouth and declare yourself an idiot? Read a fucking book and learn.
By who exactly, you say what? What! Who by? By every person who has benefited the human race. Every *fucking* one.
Grow the fuck up and take responsibility for yourself, you miserable immature piece of shit.
Noise? No. Sound? Yes. It is precisely how we understand our own sun. It is not by light but by sound.
There is a nice lecture titled "Songs of the Stars" by Don Kurtz from the University of Central Lancashire. It can be found here: http://feeds.tvo.org/tvobigideas
The podcast is called Stellar Seismology. Enjoy.
Shakespeare, among all other poets and artists, was correct. Even the dead poets and artists are still light years ahead of the early 20th century scientist. Modern scientists are just a regression of their predecessor; there are very few scientists today who merit such a title.
+5
Citation please. NYC is one of the lowest in the nation.
Paperweights?
You mean, if you stole another person's child and debilitated them and locked them up in your house for the rest of their life? That's the equivalent and not the analogy you smugly suggested.
I am a pet owner and the fucking best at training animals; a whisperer of sorts. You must do things for your animals that are momentarily discomforting for them, but this an irrational comparison towards child-rearing and clipping a bird's wings is just that... irrational.
You are however both being sensational yet raise some deep philosophical issues albeit unintentionally.
I agree with you points except for... I don't think you have to be a PETA supporter to be against neutering cats and dogs too or at least sensibly understanding the cruelty of it.
Really, if you can't understand the cruelty of it, than *you* shouldn't be a pet owner.
Almost every great writer has written our non-intentional cruelty towards animals.
Bullshit. Ever seen a dog in the city and how unhappy it is? Ever been to San Francisco? How almost every single person who owns a dog in the city is mentally, emotionally unstable and are tyrannical as a human being? I grew up in the country with dogs and I can tell you the VAST difference. Some people are just too emotionally stunted to actually love another creature. Other times, these dogs (especially thoroughbreds) are just a piece of property and disposable.
The vast majority of times people are simply satisfying their selfish need for "love" (possession) with no regard towards the animal's well-being.
It's inspiring to see how many comments are now reusing the fitting term "wage slavery." I'm glad I inspired that in my past AC comments and to see it now spreading.
For me, it was emphasized by Chomsky.
I'll chime in because the GP/AC just displayed a great deal of stupidity and didn't understand the OP's question.
The AC's analogies are not limiting innate freedom of movement, but rather are improving or facilitating. His/her analogy of child-rearing is so far off-topic that it's irrational.
The AC should take a moment to actually read and consider than being another angry, stupid person on /.
This is how I see it. Showing up to work while sick is inconsiderate, negligent, disrespectful, and irresponsible: grounds for immediate termination.
I don't see what everyone's hang-up is with this. It's an easy mistake of semantics, subtle nonetheless.
What needs to first be determined is whether stating publicly they were "serving nearly 1 billion hours per month" a *few weeks* before makes their *privately* announced statement "customers watched 'over 1 billion hours' of videos on Netflix in June" immaterially.
Of course, I think the SEC has better things to do but the investigation is legit.
Funny, that's the only model that's ever worked.
Better educated, yes. Less nationalism, yes. More American, yes. Before you say that is a contradiction, let me explain that our American ancestry, how brief it may be, is written upon empathy, and embodies faith in ourselves, our sisters and brothers, and even our enemies.
Shall I remind you of the introduction? I think many need to be reminded of it.
"We the people of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessing of Liberty to ourselves and the Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Read that carefully. Notice the second half of it. How does that fair with modern-day Republicans (whatever fucking hybrid of nationalism and fascism they are)? You see, the wisest and oldest generations alive still have a parent who remembers the days of Lincoln. The *real* Republican party. Hell, you don't have to reach so far back, the Republican party today calls Ronald Reagan a socialist.
Now, let's go back to the very beginning. Let's just go back to the words and thoughts of Thomas Jefferson or to the atheists who founded this country (all you /. kids will get a kick out of that-- grow up). Thomas Jefferson's real issue was poverty. Maybe some historian can chime in, but I will speak from a philosophical point-of-view. Jefferson dared to consider the problem of poverty at a Christ-like level; and it is safe to say he would be both supportive and doubtful of the modern-day social programs we have. However, it wasn't just the politicians but the writers and poets that mattered most in the shaping of the USofA. Take Emerson for instance. Or rather, take the Iroqouis and the great white tree of peace.
It really baffles me how my peers are so detached with what a democracy or a republic is like *in action*. The president is merely to stand for all of us, with all our contradictions and harmonies, and to be a grounded pillar to counter our bickering houses and senates; it is more a position of responsibility than it is of power.
It is so fucking disgusting that social issues, just like Obama had stated as a young senator, are used to "create a wedge" between us. Remember that? That's when I knew he was going to be elected. He was greeted with an undying ovation.
This is a scattered rant in response to a rant, but I'll still post. I leave you with One thing else that is missing is objective journalism. I dare say, it is the primary power we've lost in balancing the government for the people.
9 years ago, to budget, I use to purchase Samsung monitors rather than Apple Computer's because I could get a similar quality for half the price.
There are an amazing lot of youngsters on /. Sigh. Samsung has innovated displays and has been in contract(s) with Apple since the dawn of the iMac.
There is no alternative for Samsung. Apple will do it themselves.
Yes. It's called Art.
I don't think the quotation is applicable. A fool doesn't equal a stupid person. It is more likely that Blake is speaking from his own internalization. After all, he did persist as a poet without recognition. What greater folly is there?
Yeah, it's impressive. Almost nothing grows so fast as seaweed. Given the recent lesson of Japan tsunami debris we could probably just let an Algae farm go from Japan and harvest it on the West Coast of the US as it grew drifting across the open ocean. No need for fertilization, or weed management or any other service. Maybe other types of open sea aquaculture too like fish pens or mussel farms. In fact, by mixing the types the algae promote other sea life like plankton that the fish eat, and the fish feces feed the mussels and provide nitrogen for the algae, leveraging the lifecycle even more. And the mussels make mussel shells, which are primarily CaCO3 - so they reliably capture CO2 in a form that isn't readily released again. We can eat the seaweed, feed it to cattle, or process it for fuel - and it's useful for industrial chemical uses as well. The fish are protein. Probably get a good bit of bycatch as well like crabs, and no doubt shrimp and other types of sea life will swarm about the periphery of the farms. These farms could cover whole square miles each and work the ocean 150 feet deep. And we could work hundreds of thousands, or millions of them at a time - and feed the world's growing population for another hundred years.
Add some solar powered geotracking satellite comm tech and shipping warning systems and we could put near-unlimited tracts of Pacific Ocean under agriculture. Wherever the farms wander, when it's time we can go harvest them. And then we can give those ships from China something to take back with them besides coal: the rigging framework the open sea farms are made of.
We do need some new international agreements though to make it work because right now anybody who wanders out and catches such a thing on the open ocean is free to harvest it.
I would like to see an experiment taken with just one buoy with a 100m cable drop supporting a ladder of buoyancy neutral arms 100 meters long every 20 meters or so of depth seeded with seaweed and mussels and dropped off of Japan in a current likely to take it to the US west coast. Let it go and see what you get. I'm thinking it would turn into a seaweedburg of epic proportions: a 100m radius, 100m deep cylinder of biomass rich in all forms of sea life, completely surrounded by a diverse variety of ocean creature feeding off it and its detritus.
What's really sad is that your post can replace the lyrics of "Circle of Life". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ZnCT14nRc
Yeah, that's impressive / Almost nothing grows/ so fast / as seaweed....
Sorry.