For me, Ron Paul is actually a close second to my natural favorite. I do like him, despite major differences. For one, I wonder what he'd want to do about our infrastructure, which is an issue made more visible by Katrina and the recent bridge collapse in Minnesota. His interpretation of the Constitution is a rarity in politics, maybe a bit more strict than I'd like, but with all the ballooning of government power, I think we need more people like him.
I'm a liberal, and I'd rather have an honest conservative like Ron Paul in power than the current lot.
I can hear the Al Quaeda operatives now: "Oh shit, habibi! Talk quieter!"
Yeah, right. We had their communications shut down. Whenever a legislative lemming wants to pass more laws, you should ask whether the existing laws were inadequate, or the people that were supposed to be enforcing them. We had FBI alerts on the 9/11 hijackers and a briefing on President Bush's desk. We've had FISA for years and its restrictions are so lax - allowing even for warrants after the fact - that any protest of it can't be for good reason. Instead the incompetent and corrupt are getting more power to abuse, while making sure their buddies make money off the taxpayer.
I don't want to hear "Proud to be an American" from one more person who buys into this. Sit down and shut it up. I'm fed up with people who think it's patriotic to abandon the most basic, essential reasons this country exists. Not only should we listen to old Ben Franklin about giving up freedom for security, we should realize that freedom *is* our security. Bush and his crew have killed the last of our existing safeguards. They have paved the way for full-on oligarchic tyrrany here. We not only need to stop voting in people who do this, or supposed opposition parties that enable it, we need to re-establish the law of this land.
I was excited at last November's election, but I've repented of it now. I'm neither Libertarian nor Constitutionalist, but I wouldn't hesitate to work with them to fix this. We need Greens in on this because nothing's safe when the whims of the rich trump the law. Most Americans are convinced that something's really wrong with this country, we're just not agreed on what exactly, but this is should be clear to everyone - we need the rule of law back.
Bin Laden was never a good excuse for destroying our country from within in the first place!
After a lot of thought I went with a Kurobox running Debian and Samba. It has a gigabit ethernet port which, of course, can plug in over cat6 with no crossover, which is faster than USB. This is easily accessible by my Windows, Linux, and Mac installations and it's running ext3 - but who cares, it's over Samba, or SSH, or NFS.
It also happens only a little bigger than most drive enclosures, and you get a cheap, quiet NAS. This or any similar Linux-capable system is well worth your time.
About damn time. The state of our energy and environment affect more people now and in generations to come than any other issues on the news, period. I challenge you to find anything of such widespread and serious interest.
Not so long ago India announced that it is serious about the space solar option. I'm glad there's enough good sense in Washington to do likewise. We should get Europe and China on board, because unlike the ISS, this is the real deal and more significant to our future than going to the Moon or Mars.
You're actually making a good case for why the article is incomplete, but I don't think you can expect the kind of clear true/false you're looking for here. There are multiple pressures on human subjects like these, and this is more the domain of correlations and fuzzy logic. I'm pretty sure there's something to polygyny encouraging violence competition in males, but it's got to be overshadowed by other factors that the article is not talking about. Welcome to the humanities.
For example, suicide bombers would surely be rare if the conflicts in the world today were between more evenly matched sides. You're not going to opt for a zero chance of survival when there are reasonable odds of fighting, winning, and coming home. Palestine and Iraq are the best known scenes of suicide bombings in the world today, and in both cases, you have desperation (hospitals in shambles, open sewage, spotty electricity, fear of violence), vengefulness (loss of family members and humiliation of being occupied), and lack of hope merging with the overwhelming superiority of the occupying forces. There is no opposing army, nor can there be.
However, I think your criticism would be more on target if you showed why the things the article talks about are not a factor at all, or do not apply to the majority of cases.
Sorry, but really I say screw the fancy, expensive medicine, from personal experience. I would like to not have spent my teenage years without basic health care I needed. I'm covered now at a good job, but I haven't forgotten the setback that was.
I see rich people kvetch about keeping the most expensive health care system the way it is, when poor people could very well use the preventative, holistic, affordable medicine they practice in many places - like Cuba. We have kids dying for the lack of basic dental procedures - come on!
Step 1: Find a science story about a well-observed and described phenomenon. Step 2: Add a purile, irrelevant adjective, one that will set you apart from the pack. Step 3: Write it up. Hello, interwebz. Let's move some ads! Step 4: News aggregate sites filter out the best from all the... oh wait, here comes Zonk. Go, go Slashdot! Step 5: Profit!:):):)
Hear hear! I nominate "Area man oppressed, end to freedom to swing his fist where neighbor's nose begins" as the new title for this presumptuous, trifling article. People fighting the good fight for fair use hardly need the company of the no-social-contract crowd. So the file has been branded as yours. That steps on your legal rights how? And while laws may be right or wrong, the ones governing uploading of someone else's copyrighted work without permission are wrong... how?
Thanks for ripping this article a new one. Comments like this make Slashdot valuable, rather than the way the social anarchist whining seems to get a free pass to the postings.
Having watched the Season 3 finale when it came out in the same room with Ron Moore, I can safely say that he's holding out on the things that you're mentioning point by point, and that's not the same thing as having no idea in advance at all.
Have you considered the implications of what we've seen of the Final Five?
Four of them are on Galactica. They were present in some ethereal form at the temple on the Algae Planet built 4000 years ago. They don't seem to care for the Significant Seven Cylon's plans or have the same ideas. Moore assures us that these are Cylons, no doubt, but not the same kind. I think you can safely say that the Cylons we knew are a new addition to something very old that's involved the humans for millenia. Yes, the show is shaking everything up big time. When this is done we're going to be watching through these seasons with very different ideas of who's who, rather like watching Star Wars when you know who Darth Vader is from the start.
I disagree. If anything, you saw the Cylons running up against their own limitations and becoming confused. You had your hardliners and your doves, and even the doves were showing a level of arrogance that screamed "white man's burden". It was a change, and it wasn't what was visible before, and ultimately, it seems to me that we have a plan in action, but it's not as clear as it was when the Cylons were operating as machines. Far as I'm concerned, the overall story is still quite strong and the storyteller deserves a chance to make things unfold when and where he chooses, after which we can judge it. It's certainly good enough in the meanwhile.
Just try looking up "person" in Black's Law Dictionary. The wording is important, as specific terms mean specific strings of legal precedents. Judges recuse themselves for good reasons all the time, and this guy did the right thing. Would you rather he'd judged a case with vague user-end impressions?
I wish everyone who wasn't up to an important job would say so.
Actually I liked the boxing episode quite a lot. It had good just-beneath-the-surface deliberation. I think the racist doctor and the love polygon were the two main mistakes of mid-season three. If you think seasons 1 and 2 were perfect, look at Black Market and Tigh Me Up. Thing is, season 3 sprinkles the bad more thinly with the good, making it harder to skip. If you don't think Exodus and Crossroads made up for that, though, I don't know what will.
When ocean-side ice sheets like that break apart, it has a ripple effect. The ice held back on land starts moving out to sea. When you've got shelves the size of Rhode Island breaking off into the sea, there are going to be some repercussions.
But it quickly became apparent that the horrific tale of a melting South Pole was nothing but fiction. The average temperature in the Antarctic is -30 degrees Celsius. Humanity cannot possibly burn enough oil and coal to melt this giant block of ice.
Hello, Spiegel. Let me introduce my friend, the Larsen B ice shelf, along with Journalistic Integrity. No, you haven't met.
I like your optimism, but I think this is a case of someone in a life-or-death situation bonding with what keeps them alive, just as we see soldiers taking a "kill-em-all" attitude in foreign lands were they're supposedly on peacekeeping or liberating missions. I simply don't think you can put people's lives on the line and not expect survival instincts to kick in, including easily recognized symbols of allegiance seen also in tribal colors and inner city gangs. In this case, the robot's very identity is a sure symbol in a messy assymetric conflict where the other side abandons or subverts "team colors" in order to operate at all.
I would hate to be one of these soldiers if the insurgents found a way to crack the robots. It is terrible to feel betrayed.
Do we know that 200 solar mass stars can exist within the Eddington limit? To summarize, higher mass will increase the energy output of the star's fusion reactions, and there's a point where this can more than counter the force of gravity. How would a star exceed this? Are collisions or mass accretion from another object likely?
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For me, Ron Paul is actually a close second to my natural favorite. I do like him, despite major differences. For one, I wonder what he'd want to do about our infrastructure, which is an issue made more visible by Katrina and the recent bridge collapse in Minnesota. His interpretation of the Constitution is a rarity in politics, maybe a bit more strict than I'd like, but with all the ballooning of government power, I think we need more people like him.
I'm a liberal, and I'd rather have an honest conservative like Ron Paul in power than the current lot.
I can hear the Al Quaeda operatives now: "Oh shit, habibi! Talk quieter!"
Yeah, right. We had their communications shut down. Whenever a legislative lemming wants to pass more laws, you should ask whether the existing laws were inadequate, or the people that were supposed to be enforcing them. We had FBI alerts on the 9/11 hijackers and a briefing on President Bush's desk. We've had FISA for years and its restrictions are so lax - allowing even for warrants after the fact - that any protest of it can't be for good reason. Instead the incompetent and corrupt are getting more power to abuse, while making sure their buddies make money off the taxpayer.
I don't want to hear "Proud to be an American" from one more person who buys into this. Sit down and shut it up. I'm fed up with people who think it's patriotic to abandon the most basic, essential reasons this country exists. Not only should we listen to old Ben Franklin about giving up freedom for security, we should realize that freedom *is* our security. Bush and his crew have killed the last of our existing safeguards. They have paved the way for full-on oligarchic tyrrany here. We not only need to stop voting in people who do this, or supposed opposition parties that enable it, we need to re-establish the law of this land.
I was excited at last November's election, but I've repented of it now. I'm neither Libertarian nor Constitutionalist, but I wouldn't hesitate to work with them to fix this. We need Greens in on this because nothing's safe when the whims of the rich trump the law. Most Americans are convinced that something's really wrong with this country, we're just not agreed on what exactly, but this is should be clear to everyone - we need the rule of law back.
Bin Laden was never a good excuse for destroying our country from within in the first place!
Clearly Elton John hasn't listened to the radio for the past fifteen years. Ignorance is bliss.
But for the internet, I'd never have discovered the amount of music I have that actually has real art value.
After a lot of thought I went with a Kurobox running Debian and Samba. It has a gigabit ethernet port which, of course, can plug in over cat6 with no crossover, which is faster than USB. This is easily accessible by my Windows, Linux, and Mac installations and it's running ext3 - but who cares, it's over Samba, or SSH, or NFS.
It also happens only a little bigger than most drive enclosures, and you get a cheap, quiet NAS. This or any similar Linux-capable system is well worth your time.
About damn time. The state of our energy and environment affect more people now and in generations to come than any other issues on the news, period. I challenge you to find anything of such widespread and serious interest.
Not so long ago India announced that it is serious about the space solar option. I'm glad there's enough good sense in Washington to do likewise. We should get Europe and China on board, because unlike the ISS, this is the real deal and more significant to our future than going to the Moon or Mars.
Plus, it's damn cool.
The nipple. All other interfaces are learned.
Yes, but what do you suppose inspired the iPod scroll wheel?
You're actually making a good case for why the article is incomplete, but I don't think you can expect the kind of clear true/false you're looking for here. There are multiple pressures on human subjects like these, and this is more the domain of correlations and fuzzy logic. I'm pretty sure there's something to polygyny encouraging violence competition in males, but it's got to be overshadowed by other factors that the article is not talking about. Welcome to the humanities.
For example, suicide bombers would surely be rare if the conflicts in the world today were between more evenly matched sides. You're not going to opt for a zero chance of survival when there are reasonable odds of fighting, winning, and coming home. Palestine and Iraq are the best known scenes of suicide bombings in the world today, and in both cases, you have desperation (hospitals in shambles, open sewage, spotty electricity, fear of violence), vengefulness (loss of family members and humiliation of being occupied), and lack of hope merging with the overwhelming superiority of the occupying forces. There is no opposing army, nor can there be.
However, I think your criticism would be more on target if you showed why the things the article talks about are not a factor at all, or do not apply to the majority of cases.
"Cell phone's halfway charged. Keep jumping on the bed, kids!"
Sorry, but really I say screw the fancy, expensive medicine, from personal experience. I would like to not have spent my teenage years without basic health care I needed. I'm covered now at a good job, but I haven't forgotten the setback that was.
I see rich people kvetch about keeping the most expensive health care system the way it is, when poor people could very well use the preventative, holistic, affordable medicine they practice in many places - like Cuba. We have kids dying for the lack of basic dental procedures - come on!
Now Microsoft label Linux users as pirates, when one of the big benefits of free software is not to pirate, or even have to if you're poor.
Upon second thought, "puking" didn't sound like something to appear on an .edu page. S'pose you're right.
Step 1: Find a science story about a well-observed and described phenomenon. :) :) :)
Step 2: Add a purile, irrelevant adjective, one that will set you apart from the pack.
Step 3: Write it up. Hello, interwebz. Let's move some ads!
Step 4: News aggregate sites filter out the best from all the... oh wait, here comes Zonk. Go, go Slashdot!
Step 5: Profit!
Hear hear! I nominate "Area man oppressed, end to freedom to swing his fist where neighbor's nose begins" as the new title for this presumptuous, trifling article. People fighting the good fight for fair use hardly need the company of the no-social-contract crowd. So the file has been branded as yours. That steps on your legal rights how? And while laws may be right or wrong, the ones governing uploading of someone else's copyrighted work without permission are wrong... how?
Thanks for ripping this article a new one. Comments like this make Slashdot valuable, rather than the way the social anarchist whining seems to get a free pass to the postings.
Point is, there were Cylons before there were toasters. You just can't avoid it, we're going to have to stuff that into our pipes and smoke it.
Having watched the Season 3 finale when it came out in the same room with Ron Moore, I can safely say that he's holding out on the things that you're mentioning point by point, and that's not the same thing as having no idea in advance at all.
Have you considered the implications of what we've seen of the Final Five?
Four of them are on Galactica. They were present in some ethereal form at the temple on the Algae Planet built 4000 years ago. They don't seem to care for the Significant Seven Cylon's plans or have the same ideas. Moore assures us that these are Cylons, no doubt, but not the same kind. I think you can safely say that the Cylons we knew are a new addition to something very old that's involved the humans for millenia. Yes, the show is shaking everything up big time. When this is done we're going to be watching through these seasons with very different ideas of who's who, rather like watching Star Wars when you know who Darth Vader is from the start.
I disagree. If anything, you saw the Cylons running up against their own limitations and becoming confused. You had your hardliners and your doves, and even the doves were showing a level of arrogance that screamed "white man's burden". It was a change, and it wasn't what was visible before, and ultimately, it seems to me that we have a plan in action, but it's not as clear as it was when the Cylons were operating as machines. Far as I'm concerned, the overall story is still quite strong and the storyteller deserves a chance to make things unfold when and where he chooses, after which we can judge it. It's certainly good enough in the meanwhile.
Well, like Jesus, the sharp pup is dead, and like the Crocodile Hunter, it was a stingray that did it in.
:)
One could dig themselves quite a hole here.
Just try looking up "person" in Black's Law Dictionary. The wording is important, as specific terms mean specific strings of legal precedents. Judges recuse themselves for good reasons all the time, and this guy did the right thing. Would you rather he'd judged a case with vague user-end impressions?
I wish everyone who wasn't up to an important job would say so.
Congratulations! Someone's on a roll. Now, please go see the folks at HBO and tell them how wrong they've been all this time. ;)
Actually I liked the boxing episode quite a lot. It had good just-beneath-the-surface deliberation. I think the racist doctor and the love polygon were the two main mistakes of mid-season three. If you think seasons 1 and 2 were perfect, look at Black Market and Tigh Me Up. Thing is, season 3 sprinkles the bad more thinly with the good, making it harder to skip. If you don't think Exodus and Crossroads made up for that, though, I don't know what will.
When ocean-side ice sheets like that break apart, it has a ripple effect. The ice held back on land starts moving out to sea. When you've got shelves the size of Rhode Island breaking off into the sea, there are going to be some repercussions.
But it quickly became apparent that the horrific tale of a melting South Pole was nothing but fiction. The average temperature in the Antarctic is -30 degrees Celsius. Humanity cannot possibly burn enough oil and coal to melt this giant block of ice.
Hello, Spiegel. Let me introduce my friend, the Larsen B ice shelf, along with Journalistic Integrity. No, you haven't met.
I like your optimism, but I think this is a case of someone in a life-or-death situation bonding with what keeps them alive, just as we see soldiers taking a "kill-em-all" attitude in foreign lands were they're supposedly on peacekeeping or liberating missions. I simply don't think you can put people's lives on the line and not expect survival instincts to kick in, including easily recognized symbols of allegiance seen also in tribal colors and inner city gangs. In this case, the robot's very identity is a sure symbol in a messy assymetric conflict where the other side abandons or subverts "team colors" in order to operate at all.
I would hate to be one of these soldiers if the insurgents found a way to crack the robots. It is terrible to feel betrayed.
Do we know that 200 solar mass stars can exist within the Eddington limit? To summarize, higher mass will increase the energy output of the star's fusion reactions, and there's a point where this can more than counter the force of gravity. How would a star exceed this? Are collisions or mass accretion from another object likely?