physical appearance, what drives archetypes of appealing/ unappealing, is open to much cultural influence, but has as its base, both from who is driving the media and who is consuming it, purely biological drives
you can't take a random arbitrarily chosen standard of beauty and impose it on the masses or on children and it will be accepted blindly. the masses/ children will accept that standard which most naturally appeals to them
there is no weird conspiracy to reshape minds. minds are what they are biologically, and can drift this way and that way due to cultural influence, but they can't drift that far. otherwise, what is being pushed as a standard simply gets rejected, and some other form of influence is preferred
feminine standards of beauty, however bizarre they seem to us men, are mostly innate aspects of the biological female mind
women's magazines are full of pictures of... women
except the women in men's magazines are usually well-proportioned in the t&a department
meanwhile, the women in women's magazines are pure heroin chic: ribs showing, no curves. yuck
i really don't know why, but for some reason the female standard of feminine beauty (as opposed to the male standard of feminine beauty) is starvation porn. women for some reason or another think the ideal female form is that of a prebuscent boy
as for the magazine industry "creating" or "feeding" this phenomenon: no, if it didn't appeal to women on some level, the magazine wouldn't sell. media and consumer exist in co-dependency. media follows what its audience wants, for obvious reasons: $. (as an aside, this simple truth should dispel the whole idea of media-created trends on a whole number of other issues that some people believe: its the audience, not the media, stop blaming the media)
if you want to know what men want and like in the female form, it is well-established fact, biological fact, not cultural, that men prefer women who are heck of a lot more well-fed than what women see as an ideal
the whole scary skinny trend in high fashion is created by, and perpetuated by, and invested in, by women, not men. yes, there are few strange men who actually prefer their women to be unfeminine stick figures, but these men are not the norm
so girls, listen up, from the male perspective of beauty: go fix yourself a sammich. its your fellow women that want you to waste away, and on some archaic level we don't understand, its your own strange female mind that wants you to be so skinny, not us men
and i therefore find myself therefore morally compromised in finding cheer in this story
if i honestly believe that anything that can be digitally used should be free (and, as a matter of technological progress, is de facto free anyways, regardless of legality), then i have to say that this guy should expect no restitutition for having his images used
the riaa may be "big bad meanies", but my opposition to their reason for existence is philosophically grounded. and if i want to retain philosophical integrity, i therefore have to side against poor programmers as well
if something is digital encoded, exposed to the internet, forget trying to control it, regardless of whatever laws exist
it is a form of narcissism: my qualifications for cultural consumption are superior to your qualifications for cultural consumption. there is also an element of deficiency in the ego associated with the idea attaching a sense of superiority to arbitrary obscure qualifications
having said that, taking what elitists think is superior seriously is a form of trolling, where you are the trolled. because the only thing worse than an elitist is someone who wishes cultural conformity on everyone. not everyone likes what you do, and some of what they like is indeed quite laughable, but cultural conformity is far worse
in the end, don't hate elitists, ignore them. they are harmless, while your disgust with them is not harmless. your disgust for them has been the opening act in many horrible atrocities in this world
you could make a prudent judgment that nuclear deserves to be shied away from
with 2000s nuclear technology and expensive, financially volatile gas that funds russian neoimperialism, violent wahhabist fundamentalism, and venezuelan gasbags, nuclear is obviously a wise choice
the french and the japanese deserve kudos for investing so heavily in nuclear in decades past. now lets build ultramodern reactors and make the majority of our energy needs satisfied by nuclear. and maybe in a decade or so we can join that exclusive club of the relatively energy independent states in this world, with no need to send our sons and daughters to middle eastern hell hole conflicts because we're worried about soccer moms paying too much to fill up their suvs
we could of course go through life freely enjoying the cultural output of our artists and our artists enjoying free and easy advertising and exposure, to earn reams of cash from concerts, endorsements, ancillary revenue streams...
but why do that?
its obviously far better that every minor exchange of recording nuance involve 10 page contracts and a team of legal experts to accurately interpret and negotiate the proper legal status quo, right?
get a copy from a friend, make a duplicate backup, downsample to a lower bitrate, transfer to another device, convert to another file format, transfer to another media, transfer to someone in another country, play loudly and in public where other people can hear the recording "without authorization"... let's insert a lawyer into every scenario, right?
one of the nice things about 911 is the 9 and the 1s are on different sides of the keypad, so if you call 911, you really mean to call it
so australian 000 (or british 999 or kiwi 111 for that matter) doesn't make any sense to me: are australian emergency services always being called by people with unlocked keypads in their pockets with loose change hitting the zero key?
are they always being pranked by toddlers reaching up and continuously tapping the closest button they can find or running around with their parents unlocked cell?
but then again, you antipodeans always did drive on the "wrong" side of the road too;-)
how these same people will go on to bash the stupidity of religion in another thread, or the idiocy of braindead partisan politics, when they are nothing more than religious zealots and mindless partisans themselves in their thinking, on other topics
something like pharmaceutical research: if someone patented the cure to say, breast cancer, and then forced anyone who wanted to live to pay $50,000, there WOULD be violence, since the cost of ridiculous IP laws would be rendered starkly and clearly in suffering and lives lost. so that's why patents have such limited time range, since their effects on society are stark and clear
with copyrights, the effect isn't as stark: the impoverishment of our cultural existence isn't something you can easily equate to a pound of flesh. and so, since copyright isn't rendered in easy to understand blood and physical suffering, copyright has been allowed to be extended to ridiculous lengths
the REAL lesson for us, and companies (if they would ever listen) is that the pharmaceutical industry is a multibillion dollar healthy vibrant industry.... without the ridiculous IP protections. so if the pharamacuetical industry can swing it, why can't the book publishers/ music industry swing it?
short answer: they CAN make healthy income with only 15 year, 10 year copyrights. but no one protests the abusive, culture destroying IP laws they've rammed through with the support of assholes like sonny bono (rip), like they would protest if pfizer tried to gouge every MLS sufferer for $100,000 for decades, becase the cost with patents is easy to understand in terms of the cost to society, while the cost to society of copyright is more vague: a less culturally rich life for all of us
now the AMLF starts destroying various earthen mounds and rare earth mines
then the ELF gets in with the smashing of transistor AM radios and old dial knob AM radios in 1970s AMC gremlins
and then it escalates, with the AMLF threatening to fry the entirety of earth with massive blasts of terrible AM waves
while the ELF threatens to reveal the embarassing truth of the superiority of frequency modulation over amplitude modulation, which brings a whole new massive front into the conflict, that old rivalry
earth and amplitude modulation really need to just to learn the path of peace
a magnetic field begins at a particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core, loops around, and ends at the other end of the same particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core
does the magnetic field begin somewhere, issue forth without anchor?
what is such a thing? its not magnetism. its simply not the same thing conceptually. and its also impossible
make believe our planet had a monopole at its core. it would interact with the sun's magnetic field lines, and start moving along those lines, looking for equilibrium. but it wouldn't find it, because unlike a normal magnet, its a monopole
so our planet would loop around, move through the core of the sun, and whatever aspect of our planet that was still in existence as a monopole would still continue along those field lines, never stopping movement, just looping forever along a field line
thats a perpetual motion machine. thats a monopole. thats impossible
a magnetic field begins at one side of a particle, loops around, and ends at the other end of a particle
thats simply a conceptual description of magnetism
a magnetic field does not begin at a particle, issue forth, and never end
thats simply a failure to understand what magnetism is conceptually
if a magnetic field line emanated from a particle, it would interact with the magnetic field lines in its environment, begin to move, and simply never stop moving. because it could never reach equilibrium: its a monopole. it would exit the known universe. it has magnetic field lines sticking out one side of it with no apparent end, which is a logical absurdity
no magnetic field can be created without the other side of that particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core bearing the anchor of that magnetic field
i am not going pedantically explain why electricty is not magnetism, its like describing why a whale is not an elephant
so why is talking about electricity suppose to have any bearing on the existence of a monopole or not?
many people here have disputed my claim that a monopole is a logical impossibility by pointing out that an electric field doesn't have to begin and end at the same point
well no shit. but electricity is NOT magnetism
if i said that it is impossible for a whale to live on land, and you replied "well, elephants live on land, so why not whales?" would that make any sense?
so why the hell is everyone saying that any conceptually true about electricity is supposed to be useful in our understanding of the nature of magnetism?
magnetism begins at a particle, loops around, and ends at the same particle
beginning and ending of the concept of magnetism
this is simply what magentism IS
magnetic fields do not begin at a particle, and just keep going out forever. that's not magnetism. such a particle would just begin moving and exit the known universe: a perpetual motion machine, a failure in human logical reasoning abilities, nothing real
appeal to authority rather than appeal to logic and reason
if einstein said the sky is green, the sky must be green, because einstein says so
pfffffft
dirac thought monopoles could exist? than dirac is wrong
because a magnetic field is something that begins and ends with a particle. it does not begin at a particle and never end. such a particle would begin moving and never stop: a perpetual motion machine
in fact, much like the idea of a perpetual motion machine, a monopole is simply a failure in logic and reason, not anything real
any belief in the existence of magnetic monopoles is an inability to understand what a magnetic field is conceptually
i am apparently getting a lot of flak here in the comments about the impossibility of a monopole
either i am insane, or a lot of people don't understand what a magnetic field is
i don't fucking get it: a magnetic field starts and begins with the same point in space. it does not start at a point and not end: that's not a magnetic field. such a field could exert no force, as its not grounded in anything
in what way is anything i just said wrong?
so i must be insane, or the whole lot of you are ignorant of what a magnetic field is
a magnetic field is a relationship between a particle and its environment. it begins at the particle, it loops around, it ends on the other side of the particle
i don't see how it is possible to disassociate the particle and continue that relationship with the environment. if the magnetic field line begins with a particle, but doesn't end anywhere associated with that particle, i don't see how it can continue to exist, since it cannot begin and never end
wouldn't a monopole just start moving and never stop until it exits the universe?
the argument against a monopole seems to me to be the same argument against a perpetual motion machine
a monopole IS a perpetual motion machine: a failure in human logic, nothing real
and not continue on its way around to the other side of a magnet?
i like the equations, it makes you look authoritative. next time i try to convince someone the planet earth is actually a flat disc, i'll throw in some equations
a magnetic monopole is a physical impossibility. point of simple fact
if you have a coin with one side, you can turn it over, and there's another side. you don't turn a coin over and there's a black hole of nonexistence. you cannot construct a coin with one side. there will always be another side to that coin. please don't talk to me about toruses: we're talking about an analogy to the concept of a monopole
there's no such thing as a monopole. whatever it is, will have another side. and on that other side, there's the magnetic field lines, going on their merry way. a magnet is just atoms lined up in a certain way. are you telling me you can have one-sided atoms?
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physical appearance, what drives archetypes of appealing/ unappealing, is open to much cultural influence, but has as its base, both from who is driving the media and who is consuming it, purely biological drives
you can't take a random arbitrarily chosen standard of beauty and impose it on the masses or on children and it will be accepted blindly. the masses/ children will accept that standard which most naturally appeals to them
there is no weird conspiracy to reshape minds. minds are what they are biologically, and can drift this way and that way due to cultural influence, but they can't drift that far. otherwise, what is being pushed as a standard simply gets rejected, and some other form of influence is preferred
feminine standards of beauty, however bizarre they seem to us men, are mostly innate aspects of the biological female mind
men's magazines are full of pictures of... women
women's magazines are full of pictures of... women
except the women in men's magazines are usually well-proportioned in the t&a department
meanwhile, the women in women's magazines are pure heroin chic: ribs showing, no curves. yuck
i really don't know why, but for some reason the female standard of feminine beauty (as opposed to the male standard of feminine beauty) is starvation porn. women for some reason or another think the ideal female form is that of a prebuscent boy
as for the magazine industry "creating" or "feeding" this phenomenon: no, if it didn't appeal to women on some level, the magazine wouldn't sell. media and consumer exist in co-dependency. media follows what its audience wants, for obvious reasons: $. (as an aside, this simple truth should dispel the whole idea of media-created trends on a whole number of other issues that some people believe: its the audience, not the media, stop blaming the media)
if you want to know what men want and like in the female form, it is well-established fact, biological fact, not cultural, that men prefer women who are heck of a lot more well-fed than what women see as an ideal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf
the whole scary skinny trend in high fashion is created by, and perpetuated by, and invested in, by women, not men. yes, there are few strange men who actually prefer their women to be unfeminine stick figures, but these men are not the norm
so girls, listen up, from the male perspective of beauty: go fix yourself a sammich. its your fellow women that want you to waste away, and on some archaic level we don't understand, its your own strange female mind that wants you to be so skinny, not us men
i'll have a faint recollection of terri schiavo and i won't know why, thanks to your post
thanks a lot
and i therefore find myself therefore morally compromised in finding cheer in this story
if i honestly believe that anything that can be digitally used should be free (and, as a matter of technological progress, is de facto free anyways, regardless of legality), then i have to say that this guy should expect no restitutition for having his images used
the riaa may be "big bad meanies", but my opposition to their reason for existence is philosophically grounded. and if i want to retain philosophical integrity, i therefore have to side against poor programmers as well
if something is digital encoded, exposed to the internet, forget trying to control it, regardless of whatever laws exist
it is a form of narcissism: my qualifications for cultural consumption are superior to your qualifications for cultural consumption. there is also an element of deficiency in the ego associated with the idea attaching a sense of superiority to arbitrary obscure qualifications
having said that, taking what elitists think is superior seriously is a form of trolling, where you are the trolled. because the only thing worse than an elitist is someone who wishes cultural conformity on everyone. not everyone likes what you do, and some of what they like is indeed quite laughable, but cultural conformity is far worse
in the end, don't hate elitists, ignore them. they are harmless, while your disgust with them is not harmless. your disgust for them has been the opening act in many horrible atrocities in this world
you could make a prudent judgment that nuclear deserves to be shied away from
with 2000s nuclear technology and expensive, financially volatile gas that funds russian neoimperialism, violent wahhabist fundamentalism, and venezuelan gasbags, nuclear is obviously a wise choice
the french and the japanese deserve kudos for investing so heavily in nuclear in decades past. now lets build ultramodern reactors and make the majority of our energy needs satisfied by nuclear. and maybe in a decade or so we can join that exclusive club of the relatively energy independent states in this world, with no need to send our sons and daughters to middle eastern hell hole conflicts because we're worried about soccer moms paying too much to fill up their suvs
of these motherfucking raptors on this motherfucking plane!
we could of course go through life freely enjoying the cultural output of our artists and our artists enjoying free and easy advertising and exposure, to earn reams of cash from concerts, endorsements, ancillary revenue streams...
but why do that?
its obviously far better that every minor exchange of recording nuance involve 10 page contracts and a team of legal experts to accurately interpret and negotiate the proper legal status quo, right?
get a copy from a friend, make a duplicate backup, downsample to a lower bitrate, transfer to another device, convert to another file format, transfer to another media, transfer to someone in another country, play loudly and in public where other people can hear the recording "without authorization"... let's insert a lawyer into every scenario, right?
ip law is so fucking functionally defunct
it would be easier to tap out a string of digits in an extreme situation with reduced mobility/ visibility
and it is valid to argue that such scenarios outweigh all of the fake unintended calls
as for why we use 911, it's because nostradamus was predicting 9/11, of course ;-)
one of the nice things about 911 is the 9 and the 1s are on different sides of the keypad, so if you call 911, you really mean to call it
so australian 000 (or british 999 or kiwi 111 for that matter) doesn't make any sense to me: are australian emergency services always being called by people with unlocked keypads in their pockets with loose change hitting the zero key?
are they always being pranked by toddlers reaching up and continuously tapping the closest button they can find or running around with their parents unlocked cell?
but then again, you antipodeans always did drive on the "wrong" side of the road too ;-)
how these same people will go on to bash the stupidity of religion in another thread, or the idiocy of braindead partisan politics, when they are nothing more than religious zealots and mindless partisans themselves in their thinking, on other topics
something like pharmaceutical research: if someone patented the cure to say, breast cancer, and then forced anyone who wanted to live to pay $50,000, there WOULD be violence, since the cost of ridiculous IP laws would be rendered starkly and clearly in suffering and lives lost. so that's why patents have such limited time range, since their effects on society are stark and clear
with copyrights, the effect isn't as stark: the impoverishment of our cultural existence isn't something you can easily equate to a pound of flesh. and so, since copyright isn't rendered in easy to understand blood and physical suffering, copyright has been allowed to be extended to ridiculous lengths
the REAL lesson for us, and companies (if they would ever listen) is that the pharmaceutical industry is a multibillion dollar healthy vibrant industry.... without the ridiculous IP protections. so if the pharamacuetical industry can swing it, why can't the book publishers/ music industry swing it?
short answer: they CAN make healthy income with only 15 year, 10 year copyrights. but no one protests the abusive, culture destroying IP laws they've rammed through with the support of assholes like sonny bono (rip), like they would protest if pfizer tried to gouge every MLS sufferer for $100,000 for decades, becase the cost with patents is easy to understand in terms of the cost to society, while the cost to society of copyright is more vague: a less culturally rich life for all of us
its all for tit for tat
now the AMLF starts destroying various earthen mounds and rare earth mines
then the ELF gets in with the smashing of transistor AM radios and old dial knob AM radios in 1970s AMC gremlins
and then it escalates, with the AMLF threatening to fry the entirety of earth with massive blasts of terrible AM waves
while the ELF threatens to reveal the embarassing truth of the superiority of frequency modulation over amplitude modulation, which brings a whole new massive front into the conflict, that old rivalry
earth and amplitude modulation really need to just to learn the path of peace
joe job?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_job
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montessori_method
its a 100 year old theory, and is in widespread use
its not new, its not weird, its just an education theory with pluses and minuses, like any other
a magnetic field begins at a particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core, loops around, and ends at the other end of the same particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core
does the magnetic field begin somewhere, issue forth without anchor?
what is such a thing? its not magnetism. its simply not the same thing conceptually. and its also impossible
make believe our planet had a monopole at its core. it would interact with the sun's magnetic field lines, and start moving along those lines, looking for equilibrium. but it wouldn't find it, because unlike a normal magnet, its a monopole
so our planet would loop around, move through the core of the sun, and whatever aspect of our planet that was still in existence as a monopole would still continue along those field lines, never stopping movement, just looping forever along a field line
thats a perpetual motion machine. thats a monopole. thats impossible
a magnetic field begins at one side of a particle, loops around, and ends at the other end of a particle
thats simply a conceptual description of magnetism
a magnetic field does not begin at a particle, issue forth, and never end
thats simply a failure to understand what magnetism is conceptually
if a magnetic field line emanated from a particle, it would interact with the magnetic field lines in its environment, begin to move, and simply never stop moving. because it could never reach equilibrium: its a monopole. it would exit the known universe. it has magnetic field lines sticking out one side of it with no apparent end, which is a logical absurdity
no magnetic field can be created without the other side of that particle/ bar magnet/ planetary core bearing the anchor of that magnetic field
am i insane? is everyone here stupid?
i am not going pedantically explain why electricty is not magnetism, its like describing why a whale is not an elephant
so why is talking about electricity suppose to have any bearing on the existence of a monopole or not?
many people here have disputed my claim that a monopole is a logical impossibility by pointing out that an electric field doesn't have to begin and end at the same point
well no shit. but electricity is NOT magnetism
if i said that it is impossible for a whale to live on land, and you replied "well, elephants live on land, so why not whales?" would that make any sense?
so why the hell is everyone saying that any conceptually true about electricity is supposed to be useful in our understanding of the nature of magnetism?
magnetism begins at a particle, loops around, and ends at the same particle
beginning and ending of the concept of magnetism
this is simply what magentism IS
magnetic fields do not begin at a particle, and just keep going out forever. that's not magnetism. such a particle would just begin moving and exit the known universe: a perpetual motion machine, a failure in human logical reasoning abilities, nothing real
appeal to authority rather than appeal to logic and reason
if einstein said the sky is green, the sky must be green, because einstein says so
pfffffft
dirac thought monopoles could exist? than dirac is wrong
because a magnetic field is something that begins and ends with a particle. it does not begin at a particle and never end. such a particle would begin moving and never stop: a perpetual motion machine
in fact, much like the idea of a perpetual motion machine, a monopole is simply a failure in logic and reason, not anything real
any belief in the existence of magnetic monopoles is an inability to understand what a magnetic field is conceptually
i am apparently getting a lot of flak here in the comments about the impossibility of a monopole
either i am insane, or a lot of people don't understand what a magnetic field is
i don't fucking get it: a magnetic field starts and begins with the same point in space. it does not start at a point and not end: that's not a magnetic field. such a field could exert no force, as its not grounded in anything
in what way is anything i just said wrong?
so i must be insane, or the whole lot of you are ignorant of what a magnetic field is
a magnetic field is a relationship between a particle and its environment. it begins at the particle, it loops around, it ends on the other side of the particle
i don't see how it is possible to disassociate the particle and continue that relationship with the environment. if the magnetic field line begins with a particle, but doesn't end anywhere associated with that particle, i don't see how it can continue to exist, since it cannot begin and never end
wouldn't a monopole just start moving and never stop until it exits the universe?
the argument against a monopole seems to me to be the same argument against a perpetual motion machine
a monopole IS a perpetual motion machine: a failure in human logic, nothing real
if you don't know what a magnetic field line is, what can one say to you?
and not continue on its way around to the other side of a magnet?
i like the equations, it makes you look authoritative. next time i try to convince someone the planet earth is actually a flat disc, i'll throw in some equations
a magnetic monopole is a physical impossibility. point of simple fact
with a weapon i cannot possibly match: colossal fucking ignorance of the concept of magnetism
woe is me
you have to get rid of that pesky thing called THE HUMAN EAR
otherwise, if people are still listening WITH THEIR FUCKING EARS, the signal has to go analog at some point, and there you can intercept a signal
fucking morons
impossible
if you have a coin with one side, you can turn it over, and there's another side. you don't turn a coin over and there's a black hole of nonexistence. you cannot construct a coin with one side. there will always be another side to that coin. please don't talk to me about toruses: we're talking about an analogy to the concept of a monopole
there's no such thing as a monopole. whatever it is, will have another side. and on that other side, there's the magnetic field lines, going on their merry way. a magnet is just atoms lined up in a certain way. are you telling me you can have one-sided atoms?
this is some sort of stupidity here