Yeah, RTFA. There's an area of the brain which, when stimulated, gives even nonreligious people a "religious" experience. It's not "confusion", it's that "sense of something greater" which 99.5% of the human race claims to feel. Hell, I feel it when I read good code.
On the other hand, POP and IMAP are two of the worst protocols ever invented and most every client implementation FAILS on such simple things as downloading the small messages before the large ones.
It doesn't. But I think the idea is that the outside influence of a religious experience should need to be, umm, something religious.. like, say, God..
Basically this discovery (which is about 30 years old I think) shows that all God need do to induce a religious experience in someone is excite one small region of the brain. Now, I can't do that without a power drill and a battery, but it's hardly superhuman is it?
Hehe, I get the feeling that everyone else who is posting comments like yours is just playing the devil's advocate but you really believe what you just wrote don't you?
The *point* of the demonstration is to show that there is an area of the brain that is trivial to stimulate and which causes "connection to the sacred". What it shows is that religious experience is hardwired into us. It is not learned and it is not a mystical thing. It is a physical part of the brain.
Or, ya know, being able to zone out the futility of the office by contributing something productive to Wikipedia actually manages to keep you from going insane and killing your boss for another day.
But yeah, I suppose if you're willing to put up with them blocking your access to things instead of just quitting and going to work for an employer who is less of a nazi then they can get away with anything.
Blah. They're not slaves. If the ministry is not happy with their work output, they can fire them.
I worked for an employer once that had an IT department which banned things all the time. Including Slashdot. One day I got in trouble for using ssh tunneling through HTTPS so I could have unfiltered Internet. That was the last straw.. I threatened to quit. My employer agreed to have the restrictions removed for my machine's ip address only. I was in such a foul mood by then that I demanded they remove all the restrictions, for everyone, and they refused. Next day I tended my resignation.
Thankfully, they saw reason, tore up my resignation and removed the web proxy. People in the office who had heard nothing about my annoyance were heard to remark how much faster "the internet" was now.
About a year after that event I started working remotely for the same company because my partner's work commitments had moved us interstate. I had very rare contact with my coworkers during this time, but occasionally my employer would fly me in for conferences and celebrations. I got told that IT had now banned all workstation-to-workstation communications in the office to stem the use of a scribble-board chat program. Apparently people were using the scribble-board to draw pictures of penises (as is inevitable) and one of the likes-to-think-he-is-upwardly-mobile set was worried this could lead to a sexual harassment issue.
Something else happened to spark it.. I don't remember what, but the result was that virtually the entire developer staff threatened to quit, then went on strike, as a result of this stupid scribble-board program. Management refused to budge on the issue, but by this point cheap routers and long lengths of cable had been brought from home and a makeshift "dark net" had been setup entirely for the use of this silly drawing/chat program. Some of the guys sent me pictures.
Eventually, after IT cut off the Internet access, things came to a head and management buckled under the pressure. They got to keep their stupid scribble program and the Internet remained unfiltered. But, to this day, IT support in that office is pitiful. If you want RAM or, god forbid, software installed, you do it yourself. Of course, the geeks don't care.. the people most affected by the poor IT support is the likes-to-think-he-is-upwardly-mobile set.
Yep, and that's because the idea of civil court is to equalize torts.
If the copyright system was sane (yeah, right) the total amount of money that you could get out of me for violating your copyright would be the total amount of money that I earned from violating your copyright. Being that the idea is to restore to you the money that I obtained by doing something that the law says only you are allowed to do. Now, the fact that I may have been better at doing what you are only allowed to do should be taken into account, and maybe I shouldn't have to pay you all the money I earned, but that's debatable.
Consider, for example, a breach of contract. I sign an agreement with my phone company saying I will stay with them as a carrier for 24 months if they give me some discount. They give me the discount, but I then break the contract. They will argue that I should have to pay them for the remainder of the 24 months that I agreed to. I might argue that if I hadn't signed the 24 month contract I simply wouldn't have gotten the discount, so all I should have to pay back is the discount I received. The judge will hear the case and find one way or the other. At no point will the judge "punish" me for breaching the contract. I'm a free man, I can do whatever I like.. I can't be imprisoned by a contract.
The difference is stark. And it's a great example of why copyright law is just an absolute abuse of the legal system.
then you end up with 18 year olds in class with 10 year olds. that just doesn't work. Uhhh.. says who? I actually had a mature age student or two at my high school. Nothing makes smart asses 16 year olds shut up like a fellow student telling them they better pay attention or they'll be back trying to get their diploma when they're 22, like him.
The other cool thing about removing the mandate is that a lot of people who didn't see the point of school will, after experiencing the world for a while, go back to school. That means students will no longer be segregated by age, which has many beneficial effects, such as making fast advancement of gifted students less of a problem. It also means that adults who try to improve their education will not be seen in such a negative light anymore.. and means that our society will have to provide for them, causing a more socialist attitude (in the good, European sense of the word).
Complaining that it's hard to share songs with your friends is the whole purpose of DRM. If you'd respect copyright and let your friends buy their own MP3's, we wouldn't need DRM. You're not legally allowed to redistribute copyrighted songs without authorization from the copyright holder - that goes way beyond fair use imho Duh. DRM is an unquestioning guardian of an unjust law.
Not only do you think it is "illegal" to download music, but you've also taken the ridiculous position that there is anything more than a million to one chance that you will be one of the unlucky few to get noticed by these vultures.
Wasn't the $750 minimum originally intended as the scope of unacceptable infringement and the plaintiff was supposed to show that at least that amount of damage had been done per incident? Ya know, basically to stop people from wasting the court's time with frivolous cases? How did that get so turned around?
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What does God need with a star ship?
Yes, I did, but I also want them to line up! Against the wall!
Watch as some people get upset about this but still go on to say why we need to "prevent" terrorism and other crimes.
Watch as they call me an extremist for suggesting that crime prevention is an absurd attempt to trade freedom for security and will *never* work.
Yeah, RTFA. There's an area of the brain which, when stimulated, gives even nonreligious people a "religious" experience. It's not "confusion", it's that "sense of something greater" which 99.5% of the human race claims to feel. Hell, I feel it when I read good code.
On the other hand, POP and IMAP are two of the worst protocols ever invented and most every client implementation FAILS on such simple things as downloading the small messages before the large ones.
If they prefetch messages at all.
1. RTFA.
2. If I have to explain a non-specific experience of "the sacred" to you then you're not human.
It doesn't. But I think the idea is that the outside influence of a religious experience should need to be, umm, something religious.. like, say, God..
Basically this discovery (which is about 30 years old I think) shows that all God need do to induce a religious experience in someone is excite one small region of the brain. Now, I can't do that without a power drill and a battery, but it's hardly superhuman is it?
Hehe, I get the feeling that everyone else who is posting comments like yours is just playing the devil's advocate but you really believe what you just wrote don't you?
The *point* of the demonstration is to show that there is an area of the brain that is trivial to stimulate and which causes "connection to the sacred". What it shows is that religious experience is hardwired into us. It is not learned and it is not a mystical thing. It is a physical part of the brain.
And yet He still won't answer questions.
Or, ya know, being able to zone out the futility of the office by contributing something productive to Wikipedia actually manages to keep you from going insane and killing your boss for another day.
But yeah, I suppose if you're willing to put up with them blocking your access to things instead of just quitting and going to work for an employer who is less of a nazi then they can get away with anything.
Yep, and employees are supposed to be "understanding" of all these crap are they?
It's simply not our problem.
Blah. They're not slaves. If the ministry is not happy with their work output, they can fire them.
I worked for an employer once that had an IT department which banned things all the time. Including Slashdot. One day I got in trouble for using ssh tunneling through HTTPS so I could have unfiltered Internet. That was the last straw.. I threatened to quit. My employer agreed to have the restrictions removed for my machine's ip address only. I was in such a foul mood by then that I demanded they remove all the restrictions, for everyone, and they refused. Next day I tended my resignation.
Thankfully, they saw reason, tore up my resignation and removed the web proxy. People in the office who had heard nothing about my annoyance were heard to remark how much faster "the internet" was now.
About a year after that event I started working remotely for the same company because my partner's work commitments had moved us interstate. I had very rare contact with my coworkers during this time, but occasionally my employer would fly me in for conferences and celebrations. I got told that IT had now banned all workstation-to-workstation communications in the office to stem the use of a scribble-board chat program. Apparently people were using the scribble-board to draw pictures of penises (as is inevitable) and one of the likes-to-think-he-is-upwardly-mobile set was worried this could lead to a sexual harassment issue.
Something else happened to spark it.. I don't remember what, but the result was that virtually the entire developer staff threatened to quit, then went on strike, as a result of this stupid scribble-board program. Management refused to budge on the issue, but by this point cheap routers and long lengths of cable had been brought from home and a makeshift "dark net" had been setup entirely for the use of this silly drawing/chat program. Some of the guys sent me pictures.
Eventually, after IT cut off the Internet access, things came to a head and management buckled under the pressure. They got to keep their stupid scribble program and the Internet remained unfiltered. But, to this day, IT support in that office is pitiful. If you want RAM or, god forbid, software installed, you do it yourself. Of course, the geeks don't care.. the people most affected by the poor IT support is the likes-to-think-he-is-upwardly-mobile set.
It's such a shame there isn't money to broadcast this fact to every idiot, even the ones who frequent Slashdot.
Maybe you should send your princess to a nice catholic school where she wont be exposed to the evils of the opposite gender.
You are aware that most everywhere else in the world people aged 21 are a lot more sensible than in the USA.
It's your culture that makes people that way. I'm suggesting your culture is bad. Big shock.
Yep, and that's because the idea of civil court is to equalize torts.
If the copyright system was sane (yeah, right) the total amount of money that you could get out of me for violating your copyright would be the total amount of money that I earned from violating your copyright. Being that the idea is to restore to you the money that I obtained by doing something that the law says only you are allowed to do. Now, the fact that I may have been better at doing what you are only allowed to do should be taken into account, and maybe I shouldn't have to pay you all the money I earned, but that's debatable.
Consider, for example, a breach of contract. I sign an agreement with my phone company saying I will stay with them as a carrier for 24 months if they give me some discount. They give me the discount, but I then break the contract. They will argue that I should have to pay them for the remainder of the 24 months that I agreed to. I might argue that if I hadn't signed the 24 month contract I simply wouldn't have gotten the discount, so all I should have to pay back is the discount I received. The judge will hear the case and find one way or the other. At no point will the judge "punish" me for breaching the contract. I'm a free man, I can do whatever I like.. I can't be imprisoned by a contract.
The difference is stark. And it's a great example of why copyright law is just an absolute abuse of the legal system.
And what exactly do you base this on?
Seems to me that segregation is the cause of age idolization by youth.
That and disenfranchising teens.
The other cool thing about removing the mandate is that a lot of people who didn't see the point of school will, after experiencing the world for a while, go back to school. That means students will no longer be segregated by age, which has many beneficial effects, such as making fast advancement of gifted students less of a problem. It also means that adults who try to improve their education will not be seen in such a negative light anymore.. and means that our society will have to provide for them, causing a more socialist attitude (in the good, European sense of the word).
The best form on teaching is one-on-one teaching.
:)
It's also the most expensive.
Developing a computer system that can simulate a good teacher is a holy freakin' grail of AI research, and yeah, guess we'll see that real soon now.
Congratulations, they've won.
Not only do you think it is "illegal" to download music, but you've also taken the ridiculous position that there is anything more than a million to one chance that you will be one of the unlucky few to get noticed by these vultures.
I suppose you're afraid of terrorist attacks too.
Wasn't the $750 minimum originally intended as the scope of unacceptable infringement and the plaintiff was supposed to show that at least that amount of damage had been done per incident? Ya know, basically to stop people from wasting the court's time with frivolous cases? How did that get so turned around?
You're a child because you're not interested in convincing others of your views.
You're an idiot because you can't make a rational argument.
And, it seems, you can't recognize a joke either.