He's talking about how their culture and government are doing in this era.
Better than ever, by all accounts.
Age hasn't got anything to do with it. Neither has his culture got anything to do with the accuracy of his evaluation.
If his culture is tinted with jingoism, making him spew nationalistic prattle, it has a lot to do with it.
I don't really agree with him and I'm interested in hearing opposing viewpoints. But I'm not interested in hearing stupid bullshit that attacks the arguer and ignores the argument. Just saying.
Then you shouldn't be happy that his ignorant bile gets modded up, nor should you be defending it.
And BTW, thanks for calling my reply "stupid bullshit", it really illustrate just how much you hate it when people attack the arguer and how much you value opposing viewpoints. Just saying.
The government/culture of The People's Republic of China has only been in existence for about 70 years. Before that, it was the nationalistic Republic of China for about 35 years. And before that, it was an hereditary monarchy or thousands of year.
Maybe you should pick up a history book some time.
Maybe you should read your own post. Their culture goes back farther than the current government, and you type too well for me to conclude that you're too stupid to understand that.
The premise is that China hacked Google to access the accounts of these Chinese Human rights activists. Given that Google already complies with Chinese law, why did China not openly contact Google over this?
Because the attack's targets go beyond the authority of their laws: a coordinated effort to target specific human rights advocates not just in China but around the world.
Fair point. It also suggests the male has to be a smarter, more diligent fighter/escape artist/etc., to survive his environment long enough to reproduce, since he can't just blend in with the 'wallpaper.'
Indeed, loud colors and cumbersome attributes say "look at how fit I am to have survived this long with all these impediments you do not have, our children would be strong!"
Mod the whole article flamebait. The headline plays with the common association between "evolution" and "improvement" in order to gather angry responses and its fair share of taunting.
Please demonstrate how these nine words: "Human males evolve at a faster pace than females", involves the notion of "improvement". Specifically, explain how these words betray an intent to gather angry taunts. Additionally, explain how the headline does not reflect the content of the article. Show your work. Otherwise, STFU because I'm pretty sure that urge to flame comes wholly from you, and not from that headline.
The US Government is constrained by the Constitution.
The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution doesn't say "...except at border crossings."
If you want to argue that a search at the border might not be unreasonable, that's a different argument, but per se, the US Government does not have any special right to conduct searches at the border.
My rights, as a US Citizen, WRT the US Government, extend around the world. They aren't suspended just because I'm at a border crossing.
IANAL, obviously.
More precisely, the 4th amendment states the rights of the people, not only of citizens. In some places rights are defined for people (such as the right to a fair trial), and in others for citizens only (such as voting, becoming president, etc.)
That would be way too implausible, even for the Spider-Man movies; a high school kid develops something that material scientists would take years to create in a high-tech lab if they could at all?
Oh yeah, but being bitten by a spider makes his arms shoot out that material to great distances and in enough quantity to last him all day, THAT's plausible? I know you're just regurgitating the BS that the movie's creator spewed to silence their critics, but still, yikes.
After all the sucky superhero movies, Spiderman showed us you can actually do these things "right," leading to the newer Batman, Superman
The first Spidey movie wasn't really good and that Superman flick started off well but turned into crap pretty damn fast.
Spider-sense is not bullet-time, Peter used to be smart and built his webshooters; and Superman as a peeping tom absent father? Yuck.
And like someone else pointed out, it was X-Men that started the "good" superhero movie extravaganza (oddly enough, most of the same team couldn't do Supes right, go figure).
Those two surfaces are fundamentally different, topologically speaking. Would a spherical torus would look something like a 4-sided triangle?
I was wondering the same thing: "a plasma that is shaped like a sphere with a hole through its center (a "cored apple" profile, see Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak), different from the "donut" (toroidal) shaped plasmas of conventional tokamaks. This innovative plasma configuration may have several advantages, a major one being the ability to confine a higher plasma pressure for a given magnetic field strength. Since the amount of fusion power produced is proportional to the square of the plasma pressure, the use of spherically shaped plasmas could allow the development of smaller, more economical fusion reactors."
I have not yet heard a Slashdot suggestion on how film actors are going to get paid
I guess you're right: Cassettes will kill music, and videocassettes will kill movies. We should totally believe the cartels, they couldn't be wrong about this.
There should be no schedule 1 drugs, or schedule 2, or any other schedule. Prohibition gained this country nothing but rum-runners and armed gangs in the 1920's, and the war on drugs has gained us the same thing since the 1940's. Prohibition is for morons, fools, and zealots - and there is no proven method to separate the groups.
Well I agree with that, but as long as there is a schedule I, tobacco fits the bill and it should be on that list, but it isn't, and that's a scam.
with the "War on Drugs". Please, don't allow your obsessive/compulsive hatred of tobacco confuse you.
Tobacco should be a schedule I drug, everyone who posses the tiniest amount ought to feel the full wrath of the war on drugs brought down on them. But they don't, because of the scam.
people who undergo sex change operations still have their original set of chromosomes. But they are of the opposite gender.
No they're not. That line of thinking is how you get silly stuff like "pregnant man!" when it's a woman with an surgically altered outwards appearance.
I'm all for being understanding of people who aren't able to fit in to the sex they were born into (the "don't be a jerk" rule), but there's reality, and there's perception, and it would be nice if people would try to know the difference.
They were going to use the Energia rocket (designed for their Buran Space Shuttle) to orbit a giant orbiting mirror to illuminate arctic/Siberian towns during the cold, dark winters there.
They actually launched a prototype of that. It didn't deploy right and ended up being just a big shiny thing in the sky confusing lots of people.
My understanding is that a robot is defined as something that is at least somewhat autonomous
It is not. In fact "robot" is quite ill defined.
Some people want it to only mean autonomous machines, others only human-shaped machines, but in its originating play, it referred to what we'd now call replicants. It's used to refer to androids and remote controlled planes and everything in between.
There was a study done (google it yourself, I'm feeling lazy) that showed that placebos work better when they're expensive (the target must know of the great value of the placebo).
Mind over matter, and keep your mind on the pricetag!
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He's talking about how their culture and government are doing in this era.
Better than ever, by all accounts.
Age hasn't got anything to do with it. Neither has his culture got anything to do with the accuracy of his evaluation.
If his culture is tinted with jingoism, making him spew nationalistic prattle, it has a lot to do with it.
I don't really agree with him and I'm interested in hearing opposing viewpoints. But I'm not interested in hearing stupid bullshit that attacks the arguer and ignores the argument. Just saying.
Then you shouldn't be happy that his ignorant bile gets modded up, nor should you be defending it.
And BTW, thanks for calling my reply "stupid bullshit", it really illustrate just how much you hate it when people attack the arguer and how much you value opposing viewpoints. Just saying.
The current Chinese government has only been at it for about 60 years.
The GP shouldn't have questioned the value of their culture if he wanted to limit his thoughts to that timeframe.
The government/culture of The People's Republic of China has only been in existence for about 70 years. Before that, it was the nationalistic Republic of China for about 35 years. And before that, it was an hereditary monarchy or thousands of year.
Maybe you should pick up a history book some time.
Maybe you should read your own post. Their culture goes back farther than the current government, and you type too well for me to conclude that you're too stupid to understand that.
The premise is that China hacked Google to access the accounts of these Chinese Human rights activists. Given that Google already complies with Chinese law, why did China not openly contact Google over this?
Because the attack's targets go beyond the authority of their laws: a coordinated effort to target specific human rights advocates not just in China but around the world .
their government/culture doesn't work well.
When your government/culture will have been at it for a few thousand years, you'll have a point.
Fair point. It also suggests the male has to be a smarter, more diligent fighter/escape artist/etc., to survive his environment long enough to reproduce, since he can't just blend in with the 'wallpaper.'
Indeed, loud colors and cumbersome attributes say "look at how fit I am to have survived this long with all these impediments you do not have, our children would be strong!"
Mod the whole article flamebait. The headline plays with the common association between "evolution" and "improvement" in order to gather angry responses and its fair share of taunting.
Please demonstrate how these nine words: "Human males evolve at a faster pace than females", involves the notion of "improvement". Specifically, explain how these words betray an intent to gather angry taunts. Additionally, explain how the headline does not reflect the content of the article. Show your work. Otherwise, STFU because I'm pretty sure that urge to flame comes wholly from you, and not from that headline.
As we live a more sedentary lifestyle these days, penile and scrotal trauma are much less common.
You say that like it's a bad thing! ;-(
The notion of evolving males is not silly. That's why peacocks have big bright displays, while peahens are boring brown.
That boring brown is camouflage. If a predator comes along, the bright, loud male can be chased away from the camouflaged female covering the eggs.
The US Government is constrained by the Constitution.
The 4th Amendment to the US Constitution doesn't say "...except at border crossings."
If you want to argue that a search at the border might not be unreasonable, that's a different argument, but per se, the US Government does not have any special right to conduct searches at the border.
My rights, as a US Citizen, WRT the US Government, extend around the world. They aren't suspended just because I'm at a border crossing.
IANAL, obviously.
More precisely, the 4th amendment states the rights of the people, not only of citizens. In some places rights are defined for people (such as the right to a fair trial), and in others for citizens only (such as voting, becoming president, etc.)
That would be way too implausible, even for the Spider-Man movies; a high school kid develops something that material scientists would take years to create in a high-tech lab if they could at all?
Oh yeah, but being bitten by a spider makes his arms shoot out that material to great distances and in enough quantity to last him all day, THAT's plausible? I know you're just regurgitating the BS that the movie's creator spewed to silence their critics, but still, yikes.
After all the sucky superhero movies, Spiderman showed us you can actually do these things "right," leading to the newer Batman, Superman
The first Spidey movie wasn't really good and that Superman flick started off well but turned into crap pretty damn fast.
Spider-sense is not bullet-time, Peter used to be smart and built his webshooters; and Superman as a peeping tom absent father? Yuck.
And like someone else pointed out, it was X-Men that started the "good" superhero movie extravaganza (oddly enough, most of the same team couldn't do Supes right, go figure).
Those two surfaces are fundamentally different, topologically speaking. Would a spherical torus would look something like a 4-sided triangle?
I was wondering the same thing: "a plasma that is shaped like a sphere with a hole through its center (a "cored apple" profile, see Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak), different from the "donut" (toroidal) shaped plasmas of conventional tokamaks. This innovative plasma configuration may have several advantages, a major one being the ability to confine a higher plasma pressure for a given magnetic field strength. Since the amount of fusion power produced is proportional to the square of the plasma pressure, the use of spherically shaped plasmas could allow the development of smaller, more economical fusion reactors."
I woke up this morning wondering how much of our DNA was influenced by viruses.
Turns out it's 8%.
Thanks, slashdot! :D
I have not yet heard a Slashdot suggestion on how film actors are going to get paid
I guess you're right: Cassettes will kill music, and videocassettes will kill movies. We should totally believe the cartels, they couldn't be wrong about this.
The real scam is the war on drugs.
Definitely.
Artists are actually doing much better since the dawn of the Internet because of increased ticket sales from live performances
What if they don't want to perform live?
If they don't want to be performers, they can become accountants, or whatever other profession they choose.
There should be no schedule 1 drugs, or schedule 2, or any other schedule. Prohibition gained this country nothing but rum-runners and armed gangs in the 1920's, and the war on drugs has gained us the same thing since the 1940's. Prohibition is for morons, fools, and zealots - and there is no proven method to separate the groups.
Well I agree with that, but as long as there is a schedule I, tobacco fits the bill and it should be on that list, but it isn't, and that's a scam.
with the "War on Drugs". Please, don't allow your obsessive/compulsive hatred of tobacco confuse you.
Tobacco should be a schedule I drug, everyone who posses the tiniest amount ought to feel the full wrath of the war on drugs brought down on them. But they don't, because of the scam.
people who undergo sex change operations still have their original set of chromosomes. But they are of the opposite gender.
No they're not. That line of thinking is how you get silly stuff like "pregnant man!" when it's a woman with an surgically altered outwards appearance.
I'm all for being understanding of people who aren't able to fit in to the sex they were born into (the "don't be a jerk" rule), but there's reality, and there's perception, and it would be nice if people would try to know the difference.
A country belongs to its people, not other people. Not its neighbors.
He said in defense of one country telling its neighbor to disregard their own privacy laws.
atheism is a religion
Atheism is a religion in the same way that an empty cup is beer.
P.S. look up "Russell's teapot".
They were going to use the Energia rocket (designed for their Buran Space Shuttle) to orbit a giant orbiting mirror to illuminate arctic/Siberian towns during the cold, dark winters there.
They actually launched a prototype of that. It didn't deploy right and ended up being just a big shiny thing in the sky confusing lots of people.
My understanding is that a robot is defined as something that is at least somewhat autonomous
It is not. In fact "robot" is quite ill defined.
Some people want it to only mean autonomous machines, others only human-shaped machines, but in its originating play, it referred to what we'd now call replicants. It's used to refer to androids and remote controlled planes and everything in between.
Holy shit, that's a lot of placebo.
There was a study done (google it yourself, I'm feeling lazy) that showed that placebos work better when they're expensive (the target must know of the great value of the placebo).
Mind over matter, and keep your mind on the pricetag!