I believe it was "two little girls and a grown man naked in the same tub is not creepy"...
Or, if you want to be serious, for a change;-) The moral was that the japanese country side is a wonderfull place and that there is still room for spirituality and a child's innocence in this world.
Also: Work hard. They sure had to, to clean up that old house. Didn't they?
Only to those that don't understand the problem in the first place and are too jaded to read material objectively.
Lets look at it obectively:
Firefox does NOT currently lead to millions of pwn3d machines; IE does. Saying that Firefox is the one not to be trusted because it could theoretically be a risk is purely meant to spread FearUncertainty&Doubt.
My brain is the seat of my consciousness, my consciousness is all that "I" am. It is a very fragile thing, a hard knock to my head will destroy it. Where as my body is in comparison substantially robust, it can survive limbs being broken, and flesh torn apart... but it is not "me"
It's not that simple.
Your "body" has glands, that act with your brain. And you might not know this, but liver injuries/illnesses can make you blind.
I had a friend who liked to say that the brain isn't the body's master, the brain is slave to the liver, and only a tool to get the true master, the liver the food it wants.
It's called jingoism, or chauvinism: Extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group.
The iPod's backlight is bright! I use it as a flashlight (seriously), and the first time I turned it on at night I had to scream "AAAH! MY EYES!" (because I'm a dramatic sort of fellow;-) Now I wisened up: I turn it on facing away from me so my pupils have time to adapt.
so what _is_ exclusive about having multiple-tab bookmarks?
Turns out it's not, it was just obvious in Safari while I had to have it explained to me for firefox.
Now all that's left is to figure out how to remove those paid-for links in the search box and I'll be golden. I tried messing with the config file, didn't get rid of 'em. Like I'm ever going back to yahoo for searches, puh-leaze!
Opera doesn't have ad-blocking in the sense of hiding banner ads.
Ever since I had my browser frozen for over 3 minutes as a banner loaded VIDEO, adblocking has become a must for me.
The whole browser, all tabs, frozen solid for the time it took that horrible ad to load the pointless video I had no intention of watching! I would have gotten the info I wanted and moved on before that! Let's just say that no, I will not go watch that polar express movie, highjacking my computer is NOT the way to make me want to give you money.
This is a PA/Cthulhu thread. Therefore grandparent by me was *not* Informative
Well, just becuse it's offtopic doesn't make it non-informative. This OT thread has been the most polite, helpfull and informative experience I have ever had on slashdot : ) Though the mods could have ignored us altogether and it would have been much the same I guess.
Gabe and Tycho couldn't do a storyline from beginning to end if their lives depended on it. They keep promising this one is the one, but alas, it always turns out to be a cruel lie.
I expect this chtullu thing to run 'till wednesday, and then there will be a random penis joke on friday, as usual.
Now it's my turn: I don't understand why people write huge blocks of text. Why can't you use the [br] or [p] tag? What is preventing you from using page breaks, or separating your thoughts in different paragraphs? Why do you expect people to suffer through the miasma of your unstructured thoughs, spewed in a monolithic post?
Visual metaphor and spatial navigation have always been very hard for me. By far the most natural interface for me is simply typing
And those squigles on plastic squares aren't visual metaphors of sounds used to make words?
I'm pretty sure you're confusing "what I first learned and am used to" with "natural interface". "Those damn kids and their GUIs! In my day we TYPED our files names, and we liked it!"
Right, we should suspend ALL technological devellopments and scientific research, lest the boogyman, I mean, terrorist use it. Also, let's scrap all the tech we have and go live in caves.
At work we have a project on the table to develop a web-based tool to spam a lot of people, and to try to avoid getting blacklisted by hopping mail servers. Any advice on how to talk the business people out of doing this?
I reccommend a killing spree. Please? We'll hide you once it's done, promise!
So does firefox... its called the bookmark toolbar... right click in the bookmarks toolbar, create new folder. Then drag all your bookmarks in there (drag the url icon into the folder), then click the folder in the nav bar and at the bottom it will say open in tabs. It's all right there, no looking in submenu hell.
Hey, thanks : )
Oh great, now I'm caught in an ethical quandry: To go or not to go to my beloved webcomics with adblock on?
Human Cloning is one of the top 10 advancements? When you talk about great advancements in science, you cannot divorce ethics and science. This is ridiculous.
Yes, what you said is ridiculous.
There is nothing fundamentally unethical about cloning, it's just another way to reproduce. The fact that it could be used unethically is inconsequential: normal reproduction can be done unethically too.
Their argument isn't irrational as you claim, it's a matter of different values. They see the risk of encouraging pregnancy for the purpose of aborting as greater than the risk of patients not benefitin from stem cell research. You think the opposite.
I think it's a strawman argument built up as part of the carpet anti-abortion extravaganza, it's dishonest.
If they really believed that the trouble lays in the sale of made-to-order embryos, they would campaign against that. Not against research on all aborted embryos. This is just an obfuscated attack on abortion in general, and it stands in the way of scientific research that has tremendous potential.
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What was the moral in Totoro?
;-)
I believe it was "two little girls and a grown man naked in the same tub is not creepy"...
Or, if you want to be serious, for a change
The moral was that the japanese country side is a wonderfull place and that there is still room for spirituality and a child's innocence in this world.
Also: Work hard. They sure had to, to clean up that old house. Didn't they?
Only to those that don't understand the problem in the first place and are too jaded to read material objectively.
Lets look at it obectively:
Firefox does NOT currently lead to millions of pwn3d machines; IE does.
Saying that Firefox is the one not to be trusted because it could theoretically be a risk is purely meant to spread FearUncertainty&Doubt.
Hey, moderators, how's about you DON'T mod the trolls up, for a change?
The moral in Sen to Chihiro no kamikaukushi ("Spirited Away") is basically "Don't destroy the environment" and "Children should learn manners".
Er, the moral is always "good little japanese girls work hard and don't complain".
Every, single, time.
He'll tack on additional morals, if need be, but "work hard" is the moral of everything I've seen with Miyazaki's name attached.
What's so complicated about the first Sunday after the first full moon after the vernal equinox? Otherwise known as Easter Sunday ;-)
;-)
At four o'clock, when the bells ring.
I suddenly feel like listening to some stand up comedy for some reason
My brain is the seat of my consciousness, my consciousness is all that "I" am. It is a very fragile thing, a hard knock to my head will destroy it. Where as my body is in comparison substantially robust, it can survive limbs being broken, and flesh torn apart... but it is not "me"
It's not that simple.
Your "body" has glands, that act with your brain. And you might not know this, but liver injuries/illnesses can make you blind.
I had a friend who liked to say that the brain isn't the body's master, the brain is slave to the liver, and only a tool to get the true master, the liver the food it wants.
It's a valid point.
Valid points are starting to look a lot like FUD these days.
I could be agreeing donating my left nut to Microsoft but that doesn't mean I'm going to.
Tell that to this guy...
hate the whole of Europe? Dare I ask why?
It's called jingoism, or chauvinism:
Extreme and unreasoning partisanship on behalf of a group to which one belongs, especially when the partisanship includes malice and hatred towards a rival group.
Bright back-lighting may be helpful for him.
;-)
The iPod's backlight is bright!
I use it as a flashlight (seriously), and the first time I turned it on at night I had to scream "AAAH! MY EYES!" (because I'm a dramatic sort of fellow
Now I wisened up: I turn it on facing away from me so my pupils have time to adapt.
so what _is_ exclusive about having multiple-tab bookmarks?
Turns out it's not, it was just obvious in Safari while I had to have it explained to me for firefox.
Now all that's left is to figure out how to remove those paid-for links in the search box and I'll be golden. I tried messing with the config file, didn't get rid of 'em. Like I'm ever going back to yahoo for searches, puh-leaze!
Opera doesn't have ad-blocking in the sense of hiding banner ads.
Ever since I had my browser frozen for over 3 minutes as a banner loaded VIDEO, adblocking has become a must for me.
The whole browser, all tabs, frozen solid for the time it took that horrible ad to load the pointless video I had no intention of watching! I would have gotten the info I wanted and moved on before that! Let's just say that no, I will not go watch that polar express movie, highjacking my computer is NOT the way to make me want to give you money.
This is a PA/Cthulhu thread. Therefore grandparent by me was *not* Informative
Well, just becuse it's offtopic doesn't make it non-informative.
This OT thread has been the most polite, helpfull and informative experience I have ever had on slashdot : )
Though the mods could have ignored us altogether and it would have been much the same I guess.
Gabe and Tycho couldn't do a storyline from beginning to end if their lives depended on it. They keep promising this one is the one, but alas, it always turns out to be a cruel lie.
I expect this chtullu thing to run 'till wednesday, and then there will be a random penis joke on friday, as usual.
How is it an improvement over Mozilla?
It doesn't look like netscape circa 1997.
Now it's my turn:
I don't understand why people write huge blocks of text. Why can't you use the [br] or [p] tag? What is preventing you from using page breaks, or separating your thoughts in different paragraphs? Why do you expect people to suffer through the miasma of your unstructured thoughs, spewed in a monolithic post?
Visual metaphor and spatial navigation have always been very hard for me. By far the most natural interface for me is simply typing
And those squigles on plastic squares aren't visual metaphors of sounds used to make words?
I'm pretty sure you're confusing "what I first learned and am used to" with "natural interface".
"Those damn kids and their GUIs! In my day we TYPED our files names, and we liked it!"
One word (hyphenated to ease your reading speed): J-O-K-E.
Two words: Not funny.
Good day to you.
Same : )
Right, we should suspend ALL technological devellopments and scientific research, lest the boogyman, I mean, terrorist use it. Also, let's scrap all the tech we have and go live in caves.
You first, of course.
Your linkfoo is better than my linkfoo...
At work we have a project on the table to develop a web-based tool to spam a lot of people, and to try to avoid getting blacklisted by hopping mail servers. Any advice on how to talk the business people out of doing this?
I reccommend a killing spree.
Please? We'll hide you once it's done, promise!
And if there were a lot of ten year olds being killed and disposed of
Keep your logical fallacies to yourself.
So does firefox... its called the bookmark toolbar... right click in the bookmarks toolbar, create new folder. Then drag all your bookmarks in there (drag the url icon into the folder), then click the folder in the nav bar and at the bottom it will say open in tabs. It's all right there, no looking in submenu hell.
Hey, thanks : )
Oh great, now I'm caught in an ethical quandry: To go or not to go to my beloved webcomics with adblock on?
Human Cloning is one of the top 10 advancements? When you talk about great advancements in science, you cannot divorce ethics and science. This is ridiculous.
Yes, what you said is ridiculous.
There is nothing fundamentally unethical about cloning, it's just another way to reproduce.
The fact that it could be used unethically is inconsequential: normal reproduction can be done unethically too.
Their argument isn't irrational as you claim, it's a matter of different values. They see the risk of encouraging pregnancy for the purpose of aborting as greater than the risk of patients not benefitin from stem cell research. You think the opposite.
I think it's a strawman argument built up as part of the carpet anti-abortion extravaganza, it's dishonest.
If they really believed that the trouble lays in the sale of made-to-order embryos, they would campaign against that. Not against research on all aborted embryos. This is just an obfuscated attack on abortion in general, and it stands in the way of scientific research that has tremendous potential.
3% of the genome doesn't seem like "most". "Some", maybe.
Well, lookadat... I thought they had removed more than that. Ok, I stand corrected, thanks.
The "junk" is "most", they removed part of it...
Note to self: Part of "most" != "most";
Asimov, story was published in Omni in October of 1978.
As much as I love Asimov, there was the Horta in Star Trek over ten years prior to this.