That's kinda my point - what is the meaning behind the concept of "soul" as a transcendental, allegedly immortal entity, if "mere diet" or seeing a naked person alters it? What makes it different from my brain? Why, after applying Occam's razor, is it supposed to be still there? The whole standpoint is somewhat outlandish.
The soul is the thing that is you that can be immortal. It's not something observed, it's something said to ease our fear of death. Convince yourself that the piece of you that makes you you will go on after your body has broken down and died, and you'll stop moping around and come help with the harvest.
Souls are resonant magnetic fields that exists as hyper-complex harmonics within the earth's own field. Their patterns are altered by moral choices made during their localized anchoring to ephemeral material matrices with sympathetic resonance, and so when the cohesion of the materials is lost they flow back in geomagnetic currents, up in the case of virtue, and cycling back through the icy poles to the crushing heat of the core for sinners.
Exactly. There's something that flash could do better than all the other alternatives, web video, and now we're coming to HTML5 to do that one thing better still, but Flash does a LOT of things, and there's a lot of people using it that won't want to stop using it. Just look at how long they've been trying to phase out Director.
Those "creatives" like to hang on to their familiar tools.
I had a college friend who called me in a panic once, she had a paper due the following day and Clippy had popped up and WOULD NOT GO AWAY.
I have to say I find that unlikely considering that the Office assistant does not steal focus away from the program you're using and that moving it out of the way is as difficult as clicking and dragging it to the side of the screen.
Couldn't type anymore, Clippy demanded something, I forget the details, but just closing him didn't work: as soon as you tried to type again he'd pop back up. I had to go find the way to permanently disable him somewhere.
Trivial for us, workstopper for art chicks. And that's the rub: while it just annoyed us, he was meant to help those less savvy users but they were severely inconvenienced by it.
[rant]All software needs a "leave me the fuck alone" button to disable all the "helpful" features, like auto completion, or the bane of my existence: That "feature" that selects more than what you select. If I ever find the person who coded that, I'm breaking every finger they have.[/rant]
I think the problem with Clippy was that he was ten years too early.
It looks like you're trying to do some work, would you like me to interrupt?
I had a college friend who called me in a panic once, she had a paper due the following day and Clippy had popped up and WOULD NOT GO AWAY. It completely prevented her from continuing with her work. I drove there, and found the option to get rid of that monstrosity buried in some deep menu so she could continue after that wasted hour... Clippy should have been the focus of a class-action lawsuit that would have put MS out of business as a warning to others, if there was any justice in the world.
I have a friend who was a teacher in California for a year. She was laid off and promptly given 2/3rds her previous salary in unemployment benefits. Pretty good for keeping the same employer and just not working anymore. If I tried that it would result in a 100% pay cut.
If you tried it you'd be quitting, not laid off. Try to understand the difference.
Maybe I'm not getting it, but it seems to me that the article says that the device is unfurled once the satellite reaches orbit, so it starts to decay the orbit immediately?
FTFS: "rocket stages in order to drag space debris from orbit"
The immediate deployment option is for things that immediatly become debris. A scheduled deployment would be used for satellite decomissioning.
Colombia (a nation that is not even close to being able to stage a successful attack on a country like Venezuela)
Under the 10-year deal, the US military will not only have access to military bases, but also be able to use major international civilian airports.
So? There are US-run military bases in Japan, but it's not like they're invading China anytime soon.
The U.S., which Japan relies on for its defense, has to proceed cautiously. U.S. diplomats are now dealing with North Korea's arrest of two U.S. journalists on the North Korea-China border on March 17. The U.S. has been leaning against trying to shoot down the North's projectile and a senior U.S. official this week said the administration has ruled it out.
Colombians are determined to get rid of guerrillas even if it means hosting some gringos in your bases so they can help kick FARC/ELN butt. I hope the "right-wing" paramilitary are next.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the 2003-2006 demobilisation of the "brutal, mafia-like, paramilitary coalition known as the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia)" was a failure, despite repeated government claims that the paramilitaries no longer exist. The 122-page report, the result of two years of fieldwork, says that after the demobilisation process had come to an end, new groups almost immediately "cropped up all over the country, taking the reins of the criminal operations that the AUC leadership previously ran." "The emergence of the successor groups was predictable, in large part due to the Colombian government’s failure to dismantle the AUC’s criminal networks and financial and political support structures during the demobilisations," adds the report, which was released in Bogotá Wednesday.
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
If you want change, don't prop up the same old government. If you're a socialist, elect a different socialist president. If you're a capitalist, same thing. There's no reason to maintain Chavez in power for another 50 years.
Is there another socialist that could beat Chavez in a popularity contest...er... election? And what if they pull a Putin and the new president names the last president to some other high office but he doesn't actually change chairs or move his office or anything?
I'm sorry, but taking over the media, rewriting the constitution to remove term limits so he can stay in power indefinitely and possibly attempting to assassinate the democratically elected president of a neighboring country (see the first link) are not the actions of a democratic leader. Combined with the allegations of vote fraud and voter suppression in opposition neighborhoods, the man has crossed that line that divides "pompous but legitimate ruler" from "dictator in all but name."
Again with the obsession with term limits. What about Uribe? Is he a dictator too?
Thursday, 29 April, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3670385.stm Colombia's main opposition Liberal Party says it will reject a bill aimed at giving President Alvaro Uribe the chance of four more years in power. The party said it opposed changing the law to let Mr Uribe run again in 2006.
February 26, 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100227/ts_nm/us_colombia_uribe BOGOTA (Reuters) – A court blocked Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday from running for re-election, making his former defense minister the favorite to succeed the Washington ally in a May presidential election.
He's also warned of "defensive actions" against Colombia (a nation that is not even close to being able to stage a successful attack on a country like Venezuela) on a couple of occasions, and has modernized the military. It would not surprise me at all to see them fighting in the next few years, though, and I will laugh if Venezuela's modern but inexperienced army gets their heads handed to them by the lesser-equipped but far more combat-experienced Colombian army.
I was about to mod you up, but having read that part I'll give you this information instead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8343692.stm Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public. Under the 10-year deal, the US military will not only have access to military bases, but also be able to use major international civilian airports.
but real working life doesn't run to that timetable
One of these evenings, us night people are going to kill all the early birds in their sleep, and the world will be a better place where people can rest in peace.
tests that seem to serve no purpose, for instance dripping known irritants into the eyes of rabbits
How do you know it's an irritant to rabbit eyes if you don't drop some in their eyes to see if it irritates them? This is science, man, you can't just assume they'll irritate bunny eyes just because they are known to irritate people's eyes.
ftfa: "My parents came to visit recently, and they brought clothes that said 'he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy'. To them, it's just amusing.":)
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It's about time to hear a verdict on this one?
No! First they closed production on Duke Nukem Forever, now the SCO trial is over? What's next, the moon will vanish? I'm scared...
That's kinda my point - what is the meaning behind the concept of "soul" as a transcendental, allegedly immortal entity, if "mere diet" or seeing a naked person alters it? What makes it different from my brain? Why, after applying Occam's razor, is it supposed to be still there? The whole standpoint is somewhat outlandish.
The soul is the thing that is you that can be immortal. It's not something observed, it's something said to ease our fear of death. Convince yourself that the piece of you that makes you you will go on after your body has broken down and died, and you'll stop moping around and come help with the harvest.
what's the evolutionary advantage to being moral in the abstract?
The members of your tribe are statistically better off because of it, and therefore your genes are likelier to survive?
So, strong magnetic fields can disrupt the soul?
Souls are resonant magnetic fields that exists as hyper-complex harmonics within the earth's own field. Their patterns are altered by moral choices made during their localized anchoring to ephemeral material matrices with sympathetic resonance, and so when the cohesion of the materials is lost they flow back in geomagnetic currents, up in the case of virtue, and cycling back through the icy poles to the crushing heat of the core for sinners.
Isn't the soul supposed to be a transcendental component, which is by definition rather not to be influenced by a mere magnet?
It's been said to be influenced by mere diet, or simply by seeing someone naked. Souls are easily altered.
These cranky people are not knuckleheads, but rather accountants
You and I have wildly diverging opinions of accountants...
If that's the case, where do you classify HR workers?
Accountants of humans are more despicable than regular accountants because they inflict their accounting on a "personnel" level ;-)
Exactly. There's something that flash could do better than all the other alternatives, web video, and now we're coming to HTML5 to do that one thing better still, but Flash does a LOT of things, and there's a lot of people using it that won't want to stop using it. Just look at how long they've been trying to phase out Director.
Those "creatives" like to hang on to their familiar tools.
These cranky people are not knuckleheads, but rather accountants
You and I have wildly diverging opinions of accountants...
I had a college friend who called me in a panic once, she had a paper due the following day and Clippy had popped up and WOULD NOT GO AWAY.
I have to say I find that unlikely considering that the Office assistant does not steal focus away from the program you're using and that moving it out of the way is as difficult as clicking and dragging it to the side of the screen.
Couldn't type anymore, Clippy demanded something, I forget the details, but just closing him didn't work: as soon as you tried to type again he'd pop back up. I had to go find the way to permanently disable him somewhere.
Trivial for us, workstopper for art chicks. And that's the rub: while it just annoyed us, he was meant to help those less savvy users but they were severely inconvenienced by it.
[rant]All software needs a "leave me the fuck alone" button to disable all the "helpful" features, like auto completion, or the bane of my existence: That "feature" that selects more than what you select. If I ever find the person who coded that, I'm breaking every finger they have.[/rant]
Nice made up story
100% true and accurate. She had green eyes, too... *sigh*
I think the problem with Clippy was that he was ten years too early.
It looks like you're trying to do some work, would you like me to interrupt?
I had a college friend who called me in a panic once, she had a paper due the following day and Clippy had popped up and WOULD NOT GO AWAY. It completely prevented her from continuing with her work. I drove there, and found the option to get rid of that monstrosity buried in some deep menu so she could continue after that wasted hour... Clippy should have been the focus of a class-action lawsuit that would have put MS out of business as a warning to others, if there was any justice in the world.
I have a friend who was a teacher in California for a year. She was laid off and promptly given 2/3rds her previous salary in unemployment benefits. Pretty good for keeping the same employer and just not working anymore. If I tried that it would result in a 100% pay cut.
If you tried it you'd be quitting, not laid off. Try to understand the difference.
Maybe I'm not getting it, but it seems to me that the article says that the device is unfurled once the satellite reaches orbit, so it starts to decay the orbit immediately?
FTFS: "rocket stages in order to drag space debris from orbit"
The immediate deployment option is for things that immediatly become debris. A scheduled deployment would be used for satellite decomissioning.
Add the ability to convert Americans fat chicks into Sweden porn stars and you got yourself a deal.
People have been using beer to achieve that effect for a long time.
Yeah, but with beer the vomiting remains.
What's funny is that under the definition given, there has never been a true dictator. There is always opposition.
"Amnesty International fears that this assault on key institutions of accountability, combined with sweeping emergency powers, will exacerbate existing patterns of human rights abuse, including torture and other ill-treatment, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and use of excessive force to suppress peaceful dissent,"
Colombia (a nation that is not even close to being able to stage a successful attack on a country like Venezuela)
Under the 10-year deal, the US military will not only have access to military bases, but also be able to use major international civilian airports.
So? There are US-run military bases in Japan, but it's not like they're invading China anytime soon.
The U.S., which Japan relies on for its defense, has to proceed cautiously. U.S. diplomats are now dealing with North Korea's arrest of two U.S. journalists on the North Korea-China border on March 17.
The U.S. has been leaning against trying to shoot down the North's projectile and a senior U.S. official this week said the administration has ruled it out.
Colombians are determined to get rid of guerrillas even if it means hosting some gringos in your bases so they can help kick FARC/ELN butt. I hope the "right-wing" paramilitary are next.
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the 2003-2006 demobilisation of the "brutal, mafia-like, paramilitary coalition known as the AUC (United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia)" was a failure, despite repeated government claims that the paramilitaries no longer exist.
The 122-page report, the result of two years of fieldwork, says that after the demobilisation process had come to an end, new groups almost immediately "cropped up all over the country, taking the reins of the criminal operations that the AUC leadership previously ran."
"The emergence of the successor groups was predictable, in large part due to the Colombian government’s failure to dismantle the AUC’s criminal networks and financial and political support structures during the demobilisations," adds the report, which was released in Bogotá Wednesday.
Ah, but where does it end?
"Would you like ultra-wide spectrum super-HD eyes with 60x optical zoom, Internet-connected HUD and complimentary laser cannons, just like everyone else has?"
Oh, I hope it doesn't end there!
*squee!*
If you want change, don't prop up the same old government. If you're a socialist, elect a different socialist president. If you're a capitalist, same thing. There's no reason to maintain Chavez in power for another 50 years.
Is there another socialist that could beat Chavez in a popularity contest...er... election? And what if they pull a Putin and the new president names the last president to some other high office but he doesn't actually change chairs or move his office or anything?
I'm sorry, but taking over the media, rewriting the constitution to remove term limits so he can stay in power indefinitely and possibly attempting to assassinate the democratically elected president of a neighboring country (see the first link) are not the actions of a democratic leader. Combined with the allegations of vote fraud and voter suppression in opposition neighborhoods, the man has crossed that line that divides "pompous but legitimate ruler" from "dictator in all but name."
Again with the obsession with term limits. What about Uribe? Is he a dictator too?
Thursday, 29 April, 2004 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3670385.stm
Colombia's main opposition Liberal Party says it will reject a bill aimed at giving President Alvaro Uribe the chance of four more years in power.
The party said it opposed changing the law to let Mr Uribe run again in 2006.
February 26, 2010 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100227/ts_nm/us_colombia_uribe
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A court blocked Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday from running for re-election, making his former defense minister the favorite to succeed the Washington ally in a May presidential election.
He's also warned of "defensive actions" against Colombia (a nation that is not even close to being able to stage a successful attack on a country like Venezuela) on a couple of occasions, and has modernized the military. It would not surprise me at all to see them fighting in the next few years, though, and I will laugh if Venezuela's modern but inexperienced army gets their heads handed to them by the lesser-equipped but far more combat-experienced Colombian army.
I was about to mod you up, but having read that part I'll give you this information instead: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8343692.stm
Colombian opposition groups have reacted angrily after details of a controversial military deal with the US were made public.
Under the 10-year deal, the US military will not only have access to military bases, but also be able to use major international civilian airports.
I don't know why you work so hard in defending a tyrant, but just FYI, I have lived all my life in Venezuela
Because I think you're calling him a tyrant for the same reason others call Obama a tyrant.
How on earth can you have any sort of sports when school starts at 10 am?
How can you learn anything when you're constantly sleep deprived?
So the question is, which is school for: Sports or learning?
but real working life doesn't run to that timetable
One of these evenings, us night people are going to kill all the early birds in their sleep, and the world will be a better place where people can rest in peace.
tests that seem to serve no purpose, for instance dripping known irritants into the eyes of rabbits
How do you know it's an irritant to rabbit eyes if you don't drop some in their eyes to see if it irritates them? This is science, man, you can't just assume they'll irritate bunny eyes just because they are known to irritate people's eyes.
He's NOT the messaiah, he is a very naughty boy!
ftfa: "My parents came to visit recently, and they brought clothes that said 'he's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy'. To them, it's just amusing." :)