So, it's OK to bomb nations back to the stone age without any concrete proof of their guilt?
Well, what else can you except from the nation that's the only one in the history of the world to use nuclear bombs on not one but two civilian targets.
And you even quote Sun Tzu? You know, even monkeys can be made to "read" Sun Tzu but they just don't understand a bit of it.
Well, have you ever seen a real business reporting something as trivial as this?
I haven't. There's no point reporting or repairing minor holes like this until a real exploit has been demonstrated. Just takes away resources from the development of truly novel new networking techniques like.NET.
"First he has to repair a gap in the American argument, that no evidence has been found connecting Iraq to the 11 September attacks. The American case for action is that no evidence is needed, the threat is sufficient.".
Christ! And this is the guy who's fond of using tactical nukes.
"Every terrorist must be made to live as an international fugitive with no place to settle or organise, no place to hide, no governments to hide behind, and not even a safe place to sleep," he told an audience at the White House.
I wish we could get past the fact that the Jews have suffered horribly, etc
And like kids who are beaten up and grow up to be abusers themselves, Israel has grown into bully of a nation that's occupying territory that's not rightfully theirs (west bank and gaza), runs a reign of terror there and for the last month has been preparing a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem:
Israel radio said Mr Liberman went further, urging the bombing of Palestinian civilian targets such as shopping centres and petrol stations. This would force the Palestinians to surrender and to agree to a cease-fire, he said.
Foreign Minister Shimon Peres' reply was harsh. He warned that "if the ministers were to pursue that course of action, they would end up like Milosevic at the Hague," the radio reported.
Iraq may still be holding an American POW from Desert Storm
Yeah, right. There must also be a private called Ryan somewhere there...
You think that the US intelligence community just happened to stumble on this "new information" now when it's practically clear that the US will attack Iraq this spring or summer.
I would say this is yet another excuse made up to justify Dick Cheney's and Mr. Rumsfeld's morbid desire to wage war on smaller, totally outgunned third-world nations. I would say these two would get along just fine with the terrorist Sharon in Israel.
This kind of low-brow idiocy is exactly the reason why I have not and never will join a union. Unions are nothing but rackets thriving on extortion
On another note, it's interesting to note how Americans tend hype the "free global markets are the only way to go" mantra until their jobs are on the line. When that happens, just watch how quickly penalty tariffs and visa restrictions are raised.
Suck it up, I say. If you can't compete with H-1Bs or our steel industry, then too bad. You'll just have to figure out a way to be more competetive, then.
Meanwhile the big business will celebrate the event and start marketing "ozone replenishers" and "personal ozone bubbles" at astronomical, total rip-off, consumer gouging prices. The production of these items will, of course, cause even more damage to the ozone layer but hey, who cares, as long as we have free markets unhindered by environmental cares or ethics.
If you ask me, I'll side with the tree huggers any day even though I disagree with their ideas about nuclear power. The whole consumption oriented culture of ours is based on a lunatic idea of unlimited growth. Nothing can grow forever and now is the time to start considering how to best adapt our economies to a zero-growth mode.
I don't see why it wouldn't. It's not anything magical or mystical. Having to make those reality checks all the time just requires some time and effort, but personally I think it's well worth it: getting to play god in your very own world isn't something you get to do in the real life.
You don't need to read any books. Most books are bound to be filled with New Age shit and Carlos Castaneda legends. Some books also peddle strange electromechanical biofeedback stuff that is supposed to help you.
Lucid dreaming has also been studied in academia but I've never bothered reading that stuff either.
In my mind it's all very simple: reality checks, reality checks and reality checks.
Make it a habit to constantly check whether you're awake or dreaming. After a while you start doing this in your dreams too and that's it.
How to best distinguish between a dream and the reality is something you have to figure out yourself. For me it was reading. My reality check was to look at some text (or the time on my wristwatch), look away for a second and then read the text again. In my dreams texts tend to be volatile and change or even disappear when I look at them for the second time, so realizing that I was dreaming was quite easy. The classical "pinching yourself" technique never worked for me.
Anyway, the point is that the check should be simple and easy to do anywhere. Another good way to spot dreams is to write down recurring dreams right after you wake up. That way to learn to spot familiar dreams.
The hardest part of all this is NOT to wake up and NOT to fall back to normal sleep after you realize you're dreaming. It's like walking on a tight rope in a heavy wind. If you're too heavy-handed in controlling the dream (or if you get too excited to be awake in a dream!), you will wake up. If, on the other hand, you aren't careful you will forget that you're dreaming.
The KISS principle applies very well to lucid dreaming. Keep doing simple things like changing one small aspect of the dreamscape at a time: "find" the stuff you were desperately looking for, open the door you really had to get through or heal the nasty wound you had in the dream. Go with the dream flow, fighting it will wake you up. Levitating in a dream is fun too, but even that requires a surprising amount of concentration at least for me - straight out flying usually wakes me up.
Too bad I didn't have any hallucinations, but the dreams were always a bit wild whenever the serotonin level was either increasing or decreasing. The drug helped me to deal better with the people, though.
Speaking of dreams and hallucinations, I have almost never had any problems with weird dreams. Not after I taught myself to get control of the dream and still stay asleep (or, alternatively, decide to wake up) whenever the going gets too fucked up. It's nice to fix up that rotting, maggot infested dream-flesh of yours or get back at the murderous assholes in your dream just by thinking about it.
Actually, the last time I had a seriously disturbing dream and didn't realise it as such was during the night after a surgery. It must have been some sort of a residual effect the Fentanyl and Halothane they gave me earlier in the day. In the dream I had half of my head missing (incidentally the side they actually operated on) and woke up totally confused thinking that my head was resting on dead man's hands and if I got up, my brains would leak out from the missing side.
I took anti-depressants for five years but dropped them four months ago. Yeah, they tend to stabilize your mood and usually make the social fears less acute. However, in my case they also dampened imagination, too, and eventually feeling "normal" didn't feel that great either.
who knows what other chemicals they tamper with
Interesting, isn't it?
After I stopped taking my prozac-type drug, I experienced strange "shocking" feelings during the withdrawal. If I turned my head (or eyes) sharply or heard a sudden noise it felt like my consciousness froze ("snapped out") just for a millisecond and "snapping in" back into myself was almost a physical sensation.
I asked my doctor about it, but he didn't know anything about it. Some web sites about prozac mentioned this side effect, but again there wasn't much information.
It was interesting as long as it lasted. After two and a half months it stopped.
Why did you even bother writing all that when you could have summed up your opinion simply by:
"Tolkien's word is the word of God. Not a single scene, character or word in the dialogue should have been changed in any way. Jackson should be shot for this blasphemy".
I am a big fan of the book and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Especially showing the less serious side of Gandalf was excellently done. In fact, my only gripe is with Cate Blanchet's Galadriel who had been made to sound like a doped up hippie girl.
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Uh, why would you want to compile GTK when perfectly good RPMs are already available?
If you start compiling programs from the source, you will only confuse your package manager.
"America has asked Britain to draw up plans for 25,000 of this country's troops to join a US task force to overthrow Saddam Hussein."
I just hope the EU will be sensible enough not to assist in this unprovoked aggression against a sovereign nation, which might very well turn the whole Islamic world against the west and drive these countries even further into insane theocracy.
http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1 373,665114,00.html
Did you seriously believe that the/. editors would shape up after you started paying them?
Actually, I don't even recall them making such a promise. If you pay, you won't see the ads that aren't that disruptive when you think about it. Not really worth paying, really.
Now, if subscribing would allow you to post seriously (=without getting moderated down by the Slashdot groupthink!) I would consider buying into all this.
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Well, what else can you except from the nation that's the only one in the history of the world to use nuclear bombs on not one but two civilian targets.
And you even quote Sun Tzu? You know, even monkeys can be made to "read" Sun Tzu but they just don't understand a bit of it.
I haven't. There's no point reporting or repairing minor holes like this until a real exploit has been demonstrated. Just takes away resources from the development of truly novel new networking techniques like .NET.
Sometimes I think that the network/encryption guys are far too paranoid. This is one of those case.
I don't see how ANYONE could use this remote a security hole for real. It's all academic!
"First he has to repair a gap in the American argument, that no evidence has been found connecting Iraq to the 11 September attacks. The American case for action is that no evidence is needed, the threat is sufficient.".
Christ! And this is the guy who's fond of using tactical nukes.
Vote this guy OUT!
Four winds at the Four Winds Bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door to let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey!
Try installing a 64-bit Adaptec SCSI card and you end up trying dozens of different PCI card combinations until it works.
Next time I'll settle with a nice, Intel mobo with nice Intel controller and CPUs...
And like kids who are beaten up and grow up to be abusers themselves, Israel has grown into bully of a nation that's occupying territory that's not rightfully theirs (west bank and gaza), runs a reign of terror there and for the last month has been preparing a Final Solution to the Palestinian Problem:
There are American criminals, and Swedish criminals, and Mongolian criminals, and there are probably Israeli criminals too.
Indeed. Not a single nation, race, religion, political system or individual is innocent.
Bill Gates shirtless and wearing tight, black leather pants and wielding a whip?
*** shudder ***
Yeah, right. There must also be a private called Ryan somewhere there...
You think that the US intelligence community just happened to stumble on this "new information" now when it's practically clear that the US will attack Iraq this spring or summer.
I would say this is yet another excuse made up to justify Dick Cheney's and Mr. Rumsfeld's morbid desire to wage war on smaller, totally outgunned third-world nations. I would say these two would get along just fine with the terrorist Sharon in Israel.
Or are you just a clever ploy to get people to use Macs and non-Microsoft browsers?
On another note, it's interesting to note how Americans tend hype the "free global markets are the only way to go" mantra until their jobs are on the line. When that happens, just watch how quickly penalty tariffs and visa restrictions are raised.
Suck it up, I say. If you can't compete with H-1Bs or our steel industry, then too bad. You'll just have to figure out a way to be more competetive, then.
Oh God! Can you think of what all the evildoers of the world could do with this!
In reality, he's theories aren't that brilliant. For some reason, he's just managed to make himself look like somekind of a superstar of science.
If you ask me, I'll side with the tree huggers any day even though I disagree with their ideas about nuclear power. The whole consumption oriented culture of ours is based on a lunatic idea of unlimited growth. Nothing can grow forever and now is the time to start considering how to best adapt our economies to a zero-growth mode.
Oh, you make it all sound so dirty...
I don't see why it wouldn't. It's not anything magical or mystical. Having to make those reality checks all the time just requires some time and effort, but personally I think it's well worth it: getting to play god in your very own world isn't something you get to do in the real life.
Lucid dreaming has also been studied in academia but I've never bothered reading that stuff either.
In my mind it's all very simple: reality checks, reality checks and reality checks.
Make it a habit to constantly check whether you're awake or dreaming. After a while you start doing this in your dreams too and that's it.
How to best distinguish between a dream and the reality is something you have to figure out yourself. For me it was reading. My reality check was to look at some text (or the time on my wristwatch), look away for a second and then read the text again. In my dreams texts tend to be volatile and change or even disappear when I look at them for the second time, so realizing that I was dreaming was quite easy. The classical "pinching yourself" technique never worked for me.
Anyway, the point is that the check should be simple and easy to do anywhere. Another good way to spot dreams is to write down recurring dreams right after you wake up. That way to learn to spot familiar dreams.
The hardest part of all this is NOT to wake up and NOT to fall back to normal sleep after you realize you're dreaming. It's like walking on a tight rope in a heavy wind. If you're too heavy-handed in controlling the dream (or if you get too excited to be awake in a dream!), you will wake up. If, on the other hand, you aren't careful you will forget that you're dreaming.
The KISS principle applies very well to lucid dreaming. Keep doing simple things like changing one small aspect of the dreamscape at a time: "find" the stuff you were desperately looking for, open the door you really had to get through or heal the nasty wound you had in the dream. Go with the dream flow, fighting it will wake you up. Levitating in a dream is fun too, but even that requires a surprising amount of concentration at least for me - straight out flying usually wakes me up.
Speaking of dreams and hallucinations, I have almost never had any problems with weird dreams. Not after I taught myself to get control of the dream and still stay asleep (or, alternatively, decide to wake up) whenever the going gets too fucked up. It's nice to fix up that rotting, maggot infested dream-flesh of yours or get back at the murderous assholes in your dream just by thinking about it.
Actually, the last time I had a seriously disturbing dream and didn't realise it as such was during the night after a surgery. It must have been some sort of a residual effect the Fentanyl and Halothane they gave me earlier in the day. In the dream I had half of my head missing (incidentally the side they actually operated on) and woke up totally confused thinking that my head was resting on dead man's hands and if I got up, my brains would leak out from the missing side.
who knows what other chemicals they tamper with
Interesting, isn't it?
After I stopped taking my prozac-type drug, I experienced strange "shocking" feelings during the withdrawal. If I turned my head (or eyes) sharply or heard a sudden noise it felt like my consciousness froze ("snapped out") just for a millisecond and "snapping in" back into myself was almost a physical sensation.
I asked my doctor about it, but he didn't know anything about it. Some web sites about prozac mentioned this side effect, but again there wasn't much information.
It was interesting as long as it lasted. After two and a half months it stopped.
I would like to trade my VA Linux stocks to RoboTroll Trolling Industries!
Come on.
Why did you even bother writing all that when you could have summed up your opinion simply by:
"Tolkien's word is the word of God. Not a single scene, character or word in the dialogue should have been changed in any way. Jackson should be shot for this blasphemy".
I am a big fan of the book and thoroughly enjoyed the movie. Especially showing the less serious side of Gandalf was excellently done. In fact, my only gripe is with Cate Blanchet's Galadriel who had been made to sound like a doped up hippie girl.
If you start compiling programs from the source, you will only confuse your package manager.
"America has asked Britain to draw up plans for 25,000 of this country's troops to join a US task force to overthrow Saddam Hussein." I just hope the EU will be sensible enough not to assist in this unprovoked aggression against a sovereign nation, which might very well turn the whole Islamic world against the west and drive these countries even further into insane theocracy. http://www.observer.co.uk/waronterrorism/story/0,1 373,665114,00.html
Actually, I don't even recall them making such a promise. If you pay, you won't see the ads that aren't that disruptive when you think about it. Not really worth paying, really.
Now, if subscribing would allow you to post seriously (=without getting moderated down by the Slashdot groupthink!) I would consider buying into all this.