I think that was the question posed by H.G. Wells: "Does power corrupt?" or do people have latent tendencies that are brought about by extraordinary circumstances?
At any rate, is I think this study is stupid. Wouldn't experiencing a VR simulation where the test subject has the opportunity to be kind to someone be sufficient stimulus? How can they distinguish between that and the experience of having superpowers?
What are your thoughts on acupuncture and the existence of chi?
Most practitioners of CMA (Chinese Martial Arts) and non-Western medicine , with few exceptions, believe in the idea of an energy that suffuses all matter, and can be stored and increased in living things. There are exceptions -- I'm thinking of a practice group in the UK that teaches tai chi, but doesn't believe in chi; their explanation for the skills thereof is relaxation and body mechanics, not mysticism.
To me, the health benefits of tai chi and chi kung are readily apparent, regardless of whether or not there is such a thing a chi. Do you have any thoughts on that and/or the benefits of acupuncture?
That's going to be a hard one. Gold is pretty rare stuff. See here. From that article
gold is made in the last seconds in the lives of the most massive stars in the universe, the supernova explosions.
Gold is so rare because the conditions needed to make it are rare. On average, in a galaxy of a 100,000million stars, there will only be one supernova explosion per century, and the explosion itself is only hot enough to make gold for about a minute.
That is why gold is so valuable. Throughout the whole of human history, we have only discovered enough gold on Earth to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
If we can possibly locate another, more abundant source of gold and use it, we will.
Their basis is the laws of physics, which so far have shown to work just the same on Earth as in space. And they've done a lot of remarkable stuff in space that requires more than a ignorant human's understanding of space in order to perform.
spoken I'm assuming by a person who is part of an ethnic (and regional) majority? Yeah.
Can you apply the same logic to the ethnicity of all of the actors involved in a movie? I am imagining that the heroes 90%+ of the time are also of the same ethnicity as the villain? No?
From a U.S. perspective, if all of the your villains are non-white, there is something off. Wouldn't that strike you as odd?
On the other hand, the majority of heroes in Hollywood are white. From a business perspective, it makes sense. The audience wants someone they can readily identify with, and that typically means someone with the same skin color. Not always, but usually.
That's a little disingenuous. If you are telling a good story -- be it through film, text, theater, whatever -- anytime you intentionally or inadvertently introduce something into that story that breaks you out of the immersion, you're doing something wrong.
When I purchased tickets for the most recent Star Wars films, I expected to be entertained -- I was, but I (and I am guessing many others) can't just turn off the critical faculties while being entertained. That is, after all, what allows you to appreciate dialog and follow the plot, among other things.
I can recall thinking more than once as I watched these and earlier Star Wars films, that the aliens seem to be based on ethnic stereotypes. I didn't go in expecting it (well after I re-watched the first films as an adult, it became glaringly apparent). Anyways, WTF? It seems lazy, uncultured, stupid. Kind of disappointing.
It doesn't ruin my day. I like some of those films despite what I see. I like HP Lovecraft despite the fact that he was a classist, racist, xenophobe. Like most intelligent people, I can't help but feel that he was a product of his times, and had he had an adequate education in that regard, he would have been far more accepting of diversity.
The trend seems clear, but the authors did admit that "[w]e cannot exclude the possibility that females commit research misconduct as frequently as males but are less likely to be detected."
I remember reading once that as a child Mao Tse-tung often witnessed his parents fight. He concluded the more effective tactics were the indirect ones used by his mother. These recollections lodged in his memory -- it is no mistake that the Art of War, of which many of the tactics described therein are predicated on deceptiveness, became the revolutionary army's bible.
Fireflies (the exploratory satellites), but then I remembered if there were any danger of a collision, they could simply make the jump to hyperspace. Seems to work consistently well if I remember right...
I think the line "His Majesty is omniscient and He knows what everyone is thinking. It might look odd to the West with its mechanistic interpretation of the observable universe. But, rest assured, they know what was on his mind and they know what he would have done." says it.
Adulyadej isn't involved in this process, it isn't his decision. But thanks for sharing.
Disingenuous? Perhaps, but when you take that comment in context -- the fact that he is a figurehead without any actual power, and he has demonstrated a nobles oblige that, I am guessing, few contemporary monarchs have matched-- then I tend to believe he is speaking honestly.
From what I have read about him, he genuinely cares about his people. He has an inquisitive mind, and while I wouldn't call him a polymath, his interests are varied and deep. That mindset doesn't lend itself well to someone who lacks perspective and self-insight -- qualities you typically will not see in a despot.
There's always the chance that the would-be killer discovers that a passion for alternate applications of his preferred method of destruction.
"Who knew that the basic ingredients for napalm could used to make a tasty and nutritious treat for kids of all ages?"
"Hey, who wants a ride on the Deathmobile? Ha ha! Of course you can drive!"
"Wow, I never noticed it before. These bomb casings would make a great balcony planter."
"I know we've had our differences, Jeff, but you're my brother-in-law, and you're alright. I was thinking-- I got something for your sidewalk juice stand. No no, it just *looks* like a guillotine, but it's really a... all-in-one fruit slicer."
So one one hand you say that guns if guns weren't available, criminals or killers would use something else, then turn around and say "it's a good thing that lady had a gun, because otherwise she would have been in trouble." Which is it?
Guns are apparently excellent tools for taking lives. Please acknowledge this in your discussions.
I love how people use the "anything can be a weapon argument". What a crock. Show me in the news where someone
with a machete, taser, and body armor
has gone into a grade school or a university campus and starting killing people.
Now compare that to the number of mass killings done with guns. Let me know how those numbers stack up to one another.
We fetishize violence, especially gun violence. *And* guns make killing people a lot easier than chasing someone with a lit road flare and a can of gasoline. So it is small wonder that the gun seems to be the weapon of choice for mass murders.
As to how things get fixed, I don't know. But stop pretending "the inanimate object" isn't a factor.
I figure as every 4th post is pedantic BS about the difference between a clip and a magazine, I may as well weigh in with my pet peeve.
BTW, both are ugly prospects: protecting yourself from a gun or from a blade, but I think I'd much rather take my chances against a blade (sigh and a tazer) than some maniac with a pistol in either hand.
Simple, common-knowledge answers to all of these scenarios:
A burglar gets stuck in a chimney
- Photoshopped.
a truck driver in a head on collision is thrown out the front window and lands on his feet, walks away
-- easy. He was driving with a cat strapped to his head. Strapped to that cat was a slice of buttered bread.
a wild antelope knocks a man off his bike
- even wild animals know that cyclists are douche bags.
a candle at a wedding sets the bride's hair on fire
- b*tch chose "My Heart Will Go On" for "their" wedding song. Should have chosen "Back in Black" like the groom wanted. All of this could have been avoided.
someone fishing off a backyard dock catches a huge man-size shark.
ha! the place I used to work decided to integrate teams across all departments. Essentially we had one cluster of various IT admins sandwiched between the sales team. I forgot where the account managers were. At any rate, let me repeat: the sales guys (and gals) were on either side of the support teams.
Different culture, diametrically opposed. Completely different goals for work, different energy. You're trying to troubleshoot, and these idiots are banging a gong (really) every time they get a sale. They're fidgety, with ADD, we were much, much more quiet.
It was kind of hard to explain to the customer with a downed server that we were not celebrating the fact that his server was down by holding an impromptu dance off and banging a gong.
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Testi & Cles?
Astronomers gomad for them.
A book or course on critical thinking? Learning how to think, how to deal with data -- what is useful, what is bull -- is supremely useful.
p.s. your Warhammer RPG sucks!
How is that a control? I don't understand the significance of flying in helicopter? What does that mean?
I think that was the question posed by H.G. Wells: "Does power corrupt?" or do people have latent tendencies that are brought about by extraordinary circumstances?
At any rate, is I think this study is stupid. Wouldn't experiencing a VR simulation where the test subject has the opportunity to be kind to someone be sufficient stimulus? How can they distinguish between that and the experience of having superpowers?
Cold Slither. They'll get you, like every time, man.
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What are your thoughts on acupuncture and the existence of chi?
Most practitioners of CMA (Chinese Martial Arts) and non-Western medicine , with few exceptions, believe in the idea of an energy that suffuses all matter, and can be stored and increased in living things. There are exceptions -- I'm thinking of a practice group in the UK that teaches tai chi, but doesn't believe in chi; their explanation for the skills thereof is relaxation and body mechanics, not mysticism.
To me, the health benefits of tai chi and chi kung are readily apparent, regardless of whether or not there is such a thing a chi. Do you have any thoughts on that and/or the benefits of acupuncture?
That's going to be a hard one. Gold is pretty rare stuff. See here. From that article
gold is made in the last seconds in the lives of the most massive stars in the universe, the supernova explosions.
Gold is so rare because the conditions needed to make it are rare. On average, in a galaxy of a 100,000million stars, there will only be one supernova explosion per century, and the explosion itself is only hot enough to make gold for about a minute.
That is why gold is so valuable. Throughout the whole of human history, we have only discovered enough gold on Earth to fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools.
If we can possibly locate another, more abundant source of gold and use it, we will.
Their basis is the laws of physics, which so far have shown to work just the same on Earth as in space. And they've done a lot of remarkable stuff in space that requires more than a ignorant human's understanding of space in order to perform.
Like making pee pee in zero-g.
thank you. Was going to say that, but you saved me the typing. If I could, I'd mod ya up.
spoken I'm assuming by a person who is part of an ethnic (and regional) majority? Yeah.
Can you apply the same logic to the ethnicity of all of the actors involved in a movie? I am imagining that the heroes 90%+ of the time are also of the same ethnicity as the villain? No?
From a U.S. perspective, if all of the your villains are non-white, there is something off. Wouldn't that strike you as odd?
On the other hand, the majority of heroes in Hollywood are white. From a business perspective, it makes sense. The audience wants someone they can readily identify with, and that typically means someone with the same skin color. Not always, but usually.
Anyways, you're full of it.
That's a little disingenuous. If you are telling a good story -- be it through film, text, theater, whatever -- anytime you intentionally or inadvertently introduce something into that story that breaks you out of the immersion, you're doing something wrong.
When I purchased tickets for the most recent Star Wars films, I expected to be entertained -- I was, but I (and I am guessing many others) can't just turn off the critical faculties while being entertained. That is, after all, what allows you to appreciate dialog and follow the plot, among other things.
I can recall thinking more than once as I watched these and earlier Star Wars films, that the aliens seem to be based on ethnic stereotypes. I didn't go in expecting it (well after I re-watched the first films as an adult, it became glaringly apparent). Anyways, WTF? It seems lazy, uncultured, stupid. Kind of disappointing.
It doesn't ruin my day. I like some of those films despite what I see. I like HP Lovecraft despite the fact that he was a classist, racist, xenophobe. Like most intelligent people, I can't help but feel that he was a product of his times, and had he had an adequate education in that regard, he would have been far more accepting of diversity.
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The trend seems clear, but the authors did admit that "[w]e cannot exclude the possibility that females commit research misconduct as frequently as males but are less likely to be detected."
I remember reading once that as a child Mao Tse-tung often witnessed his parents fight. He concluded the more effective tactics were the indirect ones used by his mother. These recollections lodged in his memory -- it is no mistake that the Art of War, of which many of the tactics described therein are predicated on deceptiveness, became the revolutionary army's bible.
Fireflies (the exploratory satellites), but then I remembered if there were any danger of a collision, they could simply make the jump to hyperspace. Seems to work consistently well if I remember right...
whatever, go write awful code like you usually do.
I think the line "His Majesty is omniscient and He knows what everyone is thinking. It might look odd to the West with its mechanistic interpretation of the observable universe. But, rest assured, they know what was on his mind and they know what he would have done." says it.
Adulyadej isn't involved in this process, it isn't his decision. But thanks for sharing.
I would mod your comment slightly funny, overwhelmingly ignorant. Good job playing off of broad stereotypes.
Firstly, Adulyadej doesn't enforce these rules. He has publicly stated he that invites criticism.
Disingenuous? Perhaps, but when you take that comment in context -- the fact that he is a figurehead without any actual power, and he has demonstrated a nobles oblige that, I am guessing, few contemporary monarchs have matched-- then I tend to believe he is speaking honestly.
From what I have read about him, he genuinely cares about his people. He has an inquisitive mind, and while I wouldn't call him a polymath, his interests are varied and deep. That mindset doesn't lend itself well to someone who lacks perspective and self-insight -- qualities you typically will not see in a despot.
They're too depressed to kill anyone... because they live in Norway.
There's always the chance that the would-be killer discovers that a passion for alternate applications of his preferred method of destruction.
"Who knew that the basic ingredients for napalm could used to make a tasty and nutritious treat for kids of all ages?"
"Hey, who wants a ride on the Deathmobile? Ha ha! Of course you can drive!"
"Wow, I never noticed it before. These bomb casings would make a great balcony planter."
"I know we've had our differences, Jeff, but you're my brother-in-law, and you're alright. I was thinking-- I got something for your sidewalk juice stand. No no, it just *looks* like a guillotine, but it's really a... all-in-one fruit slicer."
Seriously. The guy's name is N. C. Wickramasinghe!... which is fairly common Indian surname.
That was way funnier in my head. Is this the weed thread? Uh, hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Pff. Whatever.
So one one hand you say that guns if guns weren't available, criminals or killers would use something else, then turn around and say "it's a good thing that lady had a gun, because otherwise she would have been in trouble." Which is it?
Guns are apparently excellent tools for taking lives. Please acknowledge this in your discussions.
I love how people use the "anything can be a weapon argument". What a crock. Show me in the news where someone
with a machete, taser, and body armor
has gone into a grade school or a university campus and starting killing people.
Now compare that to the number of mass killings done with guns. Let me know how those numbers stack up to one another.
We fetishize violence, especially gun violence. *And* guns make killing people a lot easier than chasing someone with a lit road flare and a can of gasoline. So it is small wonder that the gun seems to be the weapon of choice for mass murders.
As to how things get fixed, I don't know. But stop pretending "the inanimate object" isn't a factor.
I figure as every 4th post is pedantic BS about the difference between a clip and a magazine, I may as well weigh in with my pet peeve.
BTW, both are ugly prospects: protecting yourself from a gun or from a blade, but I think I'd much rather take my chances against a blade (sigh and a tazer) than some maniac with a pistol in either hand.
(not trolling)
Obligatory: Touch my monkey!
Simple, common-knowledge answers to all of these scenarios:
A burglar gets stuck in a chimney
- Photoshopped.
a truck driver in a head on collision is thrown out the front window and lands on his feet, walks away
-- easy. He was driving with a cat strapped to his head. Strapped to that cat was a slice of buttered bread.
a wild antelope knocks a man off his bike
- even wild animals know that cyclists are douche bags.
a candle at a wedding sets the bride's hair on fire
- b*tch chose "My Heart Will Go On" for "their" wedding song. Should have chosen "Back in Black" like the groom wanted. All of this could have been avoided.
someone fishing off a backyard dock catches a huge man-size shark.
ha! the place I used to work decided to integrate teams across all departments. Essentially we had one cluster of various IT admins sandwiched between the sales team. I forgot where the account managers were. At any rate, let me repeat: the sales guys (and gals) were on either side of the support teams.
Different culture, diametrically opposed. Completely different goals for work, different energy. You're trying to troubleshoot, and these idiots are banging a gong (really) every time they get a sale. They're fidgety, with ADD, we were much, much more quiet.
It was kind of hard to explain to the customer with a downed server that we were not celebrating the fact that his server was down by holding an impromptu dance off and banging a gong.