When pesky ideas like God being more powerful than Ceasar, or eternal rewards sprang up after as a result of their conquest of the middle east they did all that they could to contain (in the case of judiasm) or quash (in the case of Chrisitanity) ideas that did not mesh with their own.
Pesky ideas like gods being above the emperor? They always thought that gods were above mortals, that's the whole POINT of gods. There's even a name for not thinking that way: Hubris, and a demigodess (Nemesis) who's job it is to make sure things stay that way.
Now, people refusing to do what they're told because their priest told 'em to, on the other hand, is a different matter.
It seems that if a religion did not claim to be the 'only religion', then why would any of its members cling to it at all? After all, if Christianity was just 'one of many' ways to God, why would people have any incentive to remain Christian?
Gods: Plural. When the Romans encountered new religions in their travel, they didn't go "oh noes, other gods! The central tenets of our religion must be false!", they simply went "hey, new gods, what did you say there name was? And what does he do? Thunder, lightning? Oh, we call him Zeus..." Much the same way that when early Christians encountered other religious practises, they assimilated them... until they got strong enough to crush them instead, that is.
I'm sure there's a few Hindus out there who figure that Jesus was simply another avatar of Vishnu.
Secondly, talk of aborigenese being... less human than the rest of humanity is... icky, at best. Google for "Truganini", see the kind of things people have done with the excuse of racial superiority (hint: genocide).
Some say they were part homo erectus.
Yeah, er, we're all part homo erectus... on account of descending from them.
At the end of the day, unless you live in central Africa, and possibly not then, no one is truly indegenous. We're all immigrants at some point or another.
Hence the point of tracing the comings and goings with DNA. I'd guess "indigenous" means "grandma can't remember any mention of immigrating" or something like it. As opposed to "I remember the old country..."
PLEASE tell me that TV shows are not rated by one monopolistic "media research" company. I only ever hear about Nielsen Media Research, they seem to be the Alpha and Omega of ratings.
I can't believe a single corporation would have so much power.
The pharmacist verifies the finished prescription, uses his thumbprint to indicate he approves it, and a label is printed. With a password system it's far too easy for anyone to print out the approval label, and that's what would happen. Not out of maliciousness, but simply out of convenience.
If the pharmacist is lazy enough to let his technician know and use his password, he's lazy enough to put his thumb on the reader without actually checking the content.
What, no redundent? There's terrorism mentioned above in this thread and in every space elevator thread! And someone mentions the space elevator crashing down on Mars in the Kim Stanley Robinson books.
And don't forget it'd be a tremendous icon of Western achievement.
I always found the mutants to be the most facinating, the platypus being number 1, what other creature is as much of a mix as it is? Makes you wonder what kind of mishaps or strange surroundings must have been in place for such a creature to have evolved.
Well, first of all, a platypuss isn't necessarily a mutant, since a mutant is a living thing that has a genes that are different from those of it's parent(s). Any platypus you encounter is most likely a regular platypus, born of regular platypus parents. So, there was a mutant something that turned out as a platypuss, or more accuratly: a sucession of mutations, probably, but a platypus now isn't a mutant per se.
I heard on TV recently that there was bird DNA in the platypus. They said that suggests a common evolutionary ancestor to both birds and mammals... Personally, I think it was a mutant virus that jumped some assorted chunks of bird DNA to a generation of protomarsupials in it's early stages of devellopment. But, I'm not on TV, so what do I know? : )
There's a difference between keeping things secret and censorship.
Yes, in one case you aren't allowed to know the secret, so you CAN'T say what it is. In the other, you know a thing, but you are instructed not to tell anyone.
But as far as morality. Or as far as supression of free speech, the secret is worse: You can't choose to tell anyone. With censorship, you can do the crime if you're willing to do the time.
The Pentagon Files were highly classified documents, and taking them was theft, and the person who leaked them to the newspaper broke the law. But that didn't make it illegal for the newspaper to publish them.
So you can pay someone to commit a crime and reap the benefits of that crime with impunity? That's twisted!
Use the adblock extension, and add a filter to block the intellitext server address. Blocks that garbage everytime for me. I'm shocked that so many people use Firefox, but not the Adblock extension. That's the first extension everyone on Earth should install, hell it should be integrated into Firefox!
Amen! I got Firefox specifically to get AdBlock. Last fall, the ads got to be too much. I was trying to read something surrounded by flashing animated.gifs, ads for things I don't want, or even want to know about. They had to go.
However, ever try to explain AdBlock to non-techies? Their eyes go unfocused... it's a damn shame.
Canada's laws and judicial rulings don't apply in America
No? Where do they apply then? Europe? Make an effort! There are only 2 countries touching the states, you could try to make a sentence that doesn't imply that Canada is on another continent. It's not that hard.
So the public can observe the proceedings, as long as nobody tells anybody else? A secret simply cannot be contained this way.
They're just trying to avoid exposing too many people to the information until they have a jury picked out.
It's not a real secret. Anyway, we all know what the testimony is: They present the undeniable evidence of his guilt in a corruption scandal, and he says he doesn't remember a thing. It's been going on like this for months.
Canada is certainly not the only country in the world to curtail the freedom of speech purportedly in order to protect a defendant's right to a fair trial. And if Canadians want to have that rule, that's fine. But to try to impose such rules on American citizens for publishing something in America, that's just wrong. That's trying to impose Canadian laws on us. And to try to prohibit Canadians from simply linking to an American website is just stupid. [...] Free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts, in my view.
Upon its release in 1964, all files of the Warren Commission were sealed away from public view for 75 years (until 2039) by executive order of President Lyndon B. Johnson. According to the 1992 Assassinations Records Review Board laws, all assassination related documents that have not been destroyed are scheduled to be released to the public by 2017.
Secondly, the trials were watched by hundreds of thousands people daily before the limited ban was applied begrudginly by the judge for these people who are about to start a trial for the same events, it's not some kind of secret breach of anyone's rights, there's jounalists there, they just can't air the damn thing until they've got a fresh, ignorant jury picked out.
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When pesky ideas like God being more powerful than Ceasar, or eternal rewards sprang up after as a result of their conquest of the middle east they did all that they could to contain (in the case of judiasm) or quash (in the case of Chrisitanity) ideas that did not mesh with their own.
Pesky ideas like gods being above the emperor? They always thought that gods were above mortals, that's the whole POINT of gods. There's even a name for not thinking that way: Hubris, and a demigodess (Nemesis) who's job it is to make sure things stay that way.
Now, people refusing to do what they're told because their priest told 'em to, on the other hand, is a different matter.
It seems that if a religion did not claim to be the 'only religion', then why would any of its members cling to it at all? After all, if Christianity was just 'one of many' ways to God, why would people have any incentive to remain Christian?
Gods: Plural.
When the Romans encountered new religions in their travel, they didn't go "oh noes, other gods! The central tenets of our religion must be false!", they simply went "hey, new gods, what did you say there name was? And what does he do? Thunder, lightning? Oh, we call him Zeus..."
Much the same way that when early Christians encountered other religious practises, they assimilated them... until they got strong enough to crush them instead, that is.
I'm sure there's a few Hindus out there who figure that Jesus was simply another avatar of Vishnu.
First of all, your link is broken.
Secondly, talk of aborigenese being... less human than the rest of humanity is... icky, at best. Google for "Truganini", see the kind of things people have done with the excuse of racial superiority (hint: genocide).
Some say they were part homo erectus.
Yeah, er, we're all part homo erectus... on account of descending from them.
At the end of the day, unless you live in central Africa, and possibly not then, no one is truly indegenous. We're all immigrants at some point or another.
Hence the point of tracing the comings and goings with DNA.
I'd guess "indigenous" means "grandma can't remember any mention of immigrating" or something like it. As opposed to "I remember the old country..."
Does that make it the information supersubway?
I could be a zero-G marijuana farmer -- bud from outer space!
You need to read William Gibson's Neuromancer.
You'll like the bit on space station Zion and it's ganja-loving inhabitants, mon.
Now that, my friend, is a warning : )
PLEASE tell me that TV shows are not rated by one monopolistic "media research" company. I only ever hear about Nielsen Media Research, they seem to be the Alpha and Omega of ratings.
I can't believe a single corporation would have so much power.
The pharmacist verifies the finished prescription, uses his thumbprint to indicate he approves it, and a label is printed. With a password system it's far too easy for anyone to print out the approval label, and that's what would happen. Not out of maliciousness, but simply out of convenience.
If the pharmacist is lazy enough to let his technician know and use his password, he's lazy enough to put his thumb on the reader without actually checking the content.
No, as magma is coming up to the surface all the time all over the world in holes much, much larger than the borehole.
A smaller pipe?
That means more pressure...
So they're not asking for a huge volcano, but for a high pressure volcano...
That's not very reassuring!
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What, no redundent?
There's terrorism mentioned above in this thread and in every space elevator thread! And someone mentions the space elevator crashing down on Mars in the Kim Stanley Robinson books.
And don't forget it'd be a tremendous icon of Western achievement.
Wanna bet the chineese do it first?
I always found the mutants to be the most facinating, the platypus being number 1, what other creature is as much of a mix as it is? Makes you wonder what kind of mishaps or strange surroundings must have been in place for such a creature to have evolved.
Well, first of all, a platypuss isn't necessarily a mutant, since a mutant is a living thing that has a genes that are different from those of it's parent(s). Any platypus you encounter is most likely a regular platypus, born of regular platypus parents. So, there was a mutant something that turned out as a platypuss, or more accuratly: a sucession of mutations, probably, but a platypus now isn't a mutant per se.
I heard on TV recently that there was bird DNA in the platypus. They said that suggests a common evolutionary ancestor to both birds and mammals... Personally, I think it was a mutant virus that jumped some assorted chunks of bird DNA to a generation of protomarsupials in it's early stages of devellopment. But, I'm not on TV, so what do I know? : )
how did the mushroom get here in the first place.. did it perhaps get blown in from space?
I think you've had enough mushroom...
How are they going to get a Snapshot of Wikipedia in which there is no vandalism in any of the articles?
It's called "editing".
You've been reading slashdot too much.
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There's a difference between keeping things secret and censorship.
Yes, in one case you aren't allowed to know the secret, so you CAN'T say what it is. In the other, you know a thing, but you are instructed not to tell anyone.
But as far as morality. Or as far as supression of free speech, the secret is worse: You can't choose to tell anyone. With censorship, you can do the crime if you're willing to do the time.
The Pentagon Files were highly classified documents, and taking them was theft, and the person who leaked them to the newspaper broke the law. But that didn't make it illegal for the newspaper to publish them.
So you can pay someone to commit a crime and reap the benefits of that crime with impunity? That's twisted!
Use the adblock extension, and add a filter to block the intellitext server address. Blocks that garbage everytime for me.
.gifs, ads for things I don't want, or even want to know about. They had to go.
I'm shocked that so many people use Firefox, but not the Adblock extension. That's the first extension everyone on Earth should install, hell it should be integrated into Firefox!
Amen!
I got Firefox specifically to get AdBlock. Last fall, the ads got to be too much. I was trying to read something surrounded by flashing animated
However, ever try to explain AdBlock to non-techies? Their eyes go unfocused... it's a damn shame.
I was wondering about the morality of blocking pop-ups - we're effectively denying revenue to the websites
I was wondering about the morality of locking my doors... hat effectively denies revenue to crackheads.
I block all adds that get in my way. Flashy, poppy, shaky things, things that load video, all that crap.
Sure, I'd love to not block ads on some small nerdy websites whom I'm sure deserve all the add revenue they can get. But if it blinks, it dies.
Canada's laws and judicial rulings don't apply in America
No? Where do they apply then? Europe?
Make an effort! There are only 2 countries touching the states, you could try to make a sentence that doesn't imply that Canada is on another continent. It's not that hard.
So the public can observe the proceedings, as long as nobody tells anybody else?
A secret simply cannot be contained this way.
They're just trying to avoid exposing too many people to the information until they have a jury picked out.
It's not a real secret. Anyway, we all know what the testimony is: They present the undeniable evidence of his guilt in a corruption scandal, and he says he doesn't remember a thing. It's been going on like this for months.
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Free speech is free speech. No ifs, ands, or buts, in my view.
First of all:
Secondly, the trials were watched by hundreds of thousands people daily before the limited ban was applied begrudginly by the judge for these people who are about to start a trial for the same events, it's not some kind of secret breach of anyone's rights, there's jounalists there, they just can't air the damn thing until they've got a fresh, ignorant jury picked out.
Here in America, the right of the accused to receive a fair trial depends on the rights of media to publish this stuff immediately.
Well, far away places like Canada often have strange traditions.
flash mobs.
The people who hunt flash happy web designers with torches and pitchforks? They called it quits?
Does that mean they got them all? : )
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