...then it's very likely fossils are in sedimentary rocks...
I wander about religious implications of finding
fossils or hopefully even life on Mars. I can imagine
all sorts of new funny religions popping up as a result
of this. Any of religious nuts want to comment on this?
That's why the "war on terror" will never be won with military power.
I think what you really want to say is 'The "war on terror" will never
be won'. I really don't understand how someone can think that "war on
terror" can be won by some means. There never was nor will be peace on
Earth and any attempts to install one doomed to fail. Faced with
this realization many people ask themselves question 'what am I to
do?' Anyone dare to suggest answer.
Would anyone explain why it has been labeled 'Flamebait'? I pity those moderators who did that.
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I call bullshit! I never heard of any killing spree that was attributed to using anti depressants. Prove your point or I will regard you as a troll.
See here. I did not believe it until I saw it first hand. I.e. the person became uncontrollably aggressive, braking dishes, shaking, trying to hurt himself, not once mind you. Those side effects happen rare, but when they happen, trust me, you don't want to be around.
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They start off by saying that sex will enduce certain chemicals which will in turn help to cause a feeling of lust or love in the voles. Then they go on to say if they inject certain chemicals in voles, it will cause them to "fall in love".
It is the same idea as the one used in psychotropic medications like zoloft, prozac and alike. When you are
happy and not depressed you develop some chemicals in your brains. So
if you are depressed we just give these chemicals. Now if whole of
your been tells you to be unhappy because your grand mother just died,
but you artificially maintain those "happy" chemicals what happens?
Most of the time nothing, but once in a while someone goes completely
berserk and kills all his family members, himself or does something
crazy like this.
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I had a friend who used to give the name Ray Diosack (pronounce it) to...
He must be lucky. Not long time ago I was actually denied service at the photo-lab, because I refused to give them my name, address and what not. Eventually after some arguing (the woman was insisting that nobody in this world would sell me anything unless I give them at least my name) I offered her to enter James Bond in computer. As you can guess I did not develop my film there.
The human research conducted by Nazi Germany could "save lives"...
Actually some results of Nazi's experimentation on humans are used in modern medicine.
For example hypothermia data collected while freezing people to death. I don't think
we should discard such knowledge, but neither should we pursue this path.
One more thing you should consider with regards of 911 service before
ditching your land line though. I actually read it just today
somewhere, so I am not an authority in this matters, but here it
goes anyway. When you dial 911 from land line you call will be
processed by local call center where they will automatically know
your location. 911 calls from cell phones on the other hand will often
be routed to highway patrol call center and they will not know your
location unless you tell them, which takes time and may not be
possible at all if for example you had heart attack and cannot talk.
I guess VOIP 911 service will have similar to cell phones limitations.
So, think twice before suggesting your grand parents to get rid of
their land line.
They're part of a broken system... The answer to most of these problems is "education". Education, education, education...
Well I have a news for you. The system was broken, is broken and will be broken. The answer indeed may an education, but
people are not going to get educated, thus nullifying our beloved answer. Scientists often have to lie to get funding, be that now
or thousand years ago. No system will change humans.
This is rather strange. In New York City if you can not do parallel parking
it means you'd have to walk couple of miles from where you parked your
car to you home. In some places in Manhattan people actually push
other cars (not by hands, just with you car) to get into parking spot and it
is considered normal. Disclaimer: I am not an American.
Don't know much about South American, but I really
liked this (Maboroshi no hikari) movie. Also, this one (Andrei Rublyov) is good. Both come with English subtitles.
Take a look also at this
article.
In 1997 we consumed in form of oil 400 years worth of "primary production" of Earth.
I guess now we consume even more. We really out to have some respect to the Earth, plants and animals.
Can I have directions to your hole, I'd like to live there too.
That's easy. Get on a nearest interstate. Drive to the north. Once the
road ends come out and walk for another thousand miles. Keep to the
Great North. We'll see you there.
It seems that people do not want to learn any longer. They do not want to be challenged.
They never wanted to learn in a first place. There is nothing wrong
with it though. Do you want to learn group theory? Not as an imaginary
instantaneous acquisition of knowledge, but actually sitting down
and doing hard work to acquire it without clear picture in sight
why you need it. People already have enough problems, like personal
relationship for example.
On a side note, we should not place 'psychics and other con-artists'
together, because they are not the same. If I don't understand Feynman
it does not mean I consider him a con-artist.
I think Al Qaeda fell into the worried-but-not-afraid category. After Beruit, GW1, Somalia, etc. I think they convinced themselves that conflict with us would NOT be useless;
From their point of view it was not useless. Two very tall buildings
destroyed, thousands are dead, the attacked country may very well be
headed into new police state. It is not the final goal but a step in a
direction they wanted to go.
Deterrent through power never
worked in a sense of brining lasting peace up until now and there is
no reason it would work in future. I am convinced that we are headed
into another big war, perhaps WWIII. War gives humans meaning, it is
the biggest game we can have on Earth.
Regardless of the circumstances, a bad technical decision is never good from a business perspective.
After years of working in different places. It is my understanding that
managers as a rule are not interested in right or better business
decisions in a long or short terms, but instead interested in
continuation of their employment and not necessarily in the same
position or even with the same employer.
We all know that most of the screw-ups result in re-shuffling of
managerial position, with no consequences to the anyone but engineers, who has to suffer through yet another reorg.
It is common that the least
knowledgeable people end up on a top of the ladder. This is indeed a
natural way of things and nor matter how properly organization was
established and organized mismanagement and shit will cripple the
system. We can fight it, but we cannot win. Which is not to say that
we should not fight. The honest work of good scientists, engineers
and true craftsmans in general is the only reason we technologically
progressed from caves to what we are now.
after all shouldn't we just standardise on one fast foot resturaunt, then
Often when I go to a restaurant I want to see a single line in a menu, which says that they serve 'food' and the price. Even reading menus involves brain activity and we (simple people) don't like it. Many people would consider standardization of fast foot restaurants to be a Good Thing.
Even if they are crunched into a "black hole" the gravity is not enough to suck everything into it anymore than two electrons sitting next to each other could suck everything up.
They sure do suck the money (to do the experiment that is).
Just because you're biased against movies doesn't mean that the Matrix isn't "deep."
Amen. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is the
meaning. If you can deduce some deep insights from Matrix - then more
power to you. Sorry but I will skip on Matrix. It is not that everyone
objects to movies with deep ideas, there are a lot of them ( movies
that is ). It's just that characters in Matrix are too cool, they are
more like a robots. I think it is a long term trend of image taking over
the substance and this movie exploits its very well. Take Tarkovsky's
Solaris, it hardly had any graphics, let along CG, almost pure
substance. Or his other movie 'Andrei Rublev', it is intentionally
black and white with exception of couple of scenes at the end. I guess
you can see that I like Tarkovsky, but that's beside the point that not
everyone who does not like Matrix is elitist (of which I was accused here) and not everyone who
likes it is a shallow.
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...then it's very likely fossils are in sedimentary rocks...
I wander about religious implications of finding fossils or hopefully even life on Mars. I can imagine all sorts of new funny religions popping up as a result of this. Any of religious nuts want to comment on this?
That's why the "war on terror" will never be won with military power.
I think what you really want to say is 'The "war on terror" will never be won'. I really don't understand how someone can think that "war on terror" can be won by some means. There never was nor will be peace on Earth and any attempts to install one doomed to fail. Faced with this realization many people ask themselves question 'what am I to do?' Anyone dare to suggest answer.
Would anyone explain why it has been labeled 'Flamebait'? I pity those moderators who did that.
I call bullshit! I never heard of any killing spree that was attributed to using anti depressants. Prove your point or I will regard you as a troll.
See here. I did not believe it until I saw it first hand. I.e. the person became uncontrollably aggressive, braking dishes, shaking, trying to hurt himself, not once mind you. Those side effects happen rare, but when they happen, trust me, you don't want to be around.
They start off by saying that sex will enduce certain chemicals which will in turn help to cause a feeling of lust or love in the voles. Then they go on to say if they inject certain chemicals in voles, it will cause them to "fall in love".
It is the same idea as the one used in psychotropic medications like zoloft, prozac and alike. When you are happy and not depressed you develop some chemicals in your brains. So if you are depressed we just give these chemicals. Now if whole of your been tells you to be unhappy because your grand mother just died, but you artificially maintain those "happy" chemicals what happens? Most of the time nothing, but once in a while someone goes completely berserk and kills all his family members, himself or does something crazy like this.
I had a friend who used to give the name Ray Diosack (pronounce it) to...
He must be lucky. Not long time ago I was actually denied service at the photo-lab, because I refused to give them my name, address and what not. Eventually after some arguing (the woman was insisting that nobody in this world would sell me anything unless I give them at least my name) I offered her to enter James Bond in computer. As you can guess I did not develop my film there.
The human research conducted by Nazi Germany could "save lives"...
Actually some results of Nazi's experimentation on humans are used in modern medicine. For example hypothermia data collected while freezing people to death. I don't think we should discard such knowledge, but neither should we pursue this path.
911 compatability wouldn't be hard...
One more thing you should consider with regards of 911 service before ditching your land line though. I actually read it just today somewhere, so I am not an authority in this matters, but here it goes anyway. When you dial 911 from land line you call will be processed by local call center where they will automatically know your location. 911 calls from cell phones on the other hand will often be routed to highway patrol call center and they will not know your location unless you tell them, which takes time and may not be possible at all if for example you had heart attack and cannot talk. I guess VOIP 911 service will have similar to cell phones limitations. So, think twice before suggesting your grand parents to get rid of their land line.
... are lots of suggestions from particle physics that every particle we know now has a partner. This theory is called "super symmetry" and ...
Sounds like you are one of those "scientists". Looking for more funding?
They're part of a broken system...
The answer to most of these problems is "education". Education, education, education...
Well I have a news for you. The system was broken, is broken and will be broken. The answer indeed may an education, but people are not going to get educated, thus nullifying our beloved answer. Scientists often have to lie to get funding, be that now or thousand years ago. No system will change humans.
Relax and enjoy the ride.
I agree, C is better for science, but in the real world who cares where water boils or freezes.
You have not lived in a country which uses metric system, have you. Centigrade scale is much more relevant to humans than Fahrenheit.
"an American wouldn't be able to park in reverse"
This is rather strange. In New York City if you can not do parallel parking it means you'd have to walk couple of miles from where you parked your car to you home. In some places in Manhattan people actually push other cars (not by hands, just with you car) to get into parking spot and it is considered normal. Disclaimer: I am not an American.
..small lead coffin/shield at some point on the ship
Hmm... Coffin. (scratching my head) I know if I want to go to Mars with my very own coffin.
Don't know much about South American, but I really liked this (Maboroshi no hikari) movie.
Also, this one (Andrei Rublyov) is good. Both come with English subtitles.
SOCAN is better than SCAMPC
SATAN is better yet and sounds more close to the original.
The problem is figuring out whether a system based on survival and greed can be sustained without wreaking havoc around the world.
Whatever we do will wreak havoc on this planet. Get over it. Nothing is sustainable.
Take a look also at this article. In 1997 we consumed in form of oil 400 years worth of "primary production" of Earth.
I guess now we consume even more. We really out to have some respect to the Earth, plants and animals.
Can I have directions to your hole, I'd like to live there too.
That's easy. Get on a nearest interstate. Drive to the north. Once the road ends come out and walk for another thousand miles. Keep to the Great North. We'll see you there.
Your friends from geeks heaven.
The bible code is the textual equivalent of "Ooh, that cloud looks like a horsie."
:)
On the other hand, what would you think if all clouds look like horsies. That must be one funny theory to explain that.
It seems that people do not want to learn any longer. They do not want to be challenged.
They never wanted to learn in a first place. There is nothing wrong with it though. Do you want to learn group theory? Not as an imaginary instantaneous acquisition of knowledge, but actually sitting down and doing hard work to acquire it without clear picture in sight why you need it. People already have enough problems, like personal relationship for example.
On a side note, we should not place 'psychics and other con-artists' together, because they are not the same. If I don't understand Feynman it does not mean I consider him a con-artist.
I think Al Qaeda fell into the worried-but-not-afraid category. After Beruit, GW1, Somalia, etc. I think they convinced themselves that conflict with us would NOT be useless;
From their point of view it was not useless. Two very tall buildings destroyed, thousands are dead, the attacked country may very well be headed into new police state. It is not the final goal but a step in a direction they wanted to go.
Deterrent through power never worked in a sense of brining lasting peace up until now and there is no reason it would work in future. I am convinced that we are headed into another big war, perhaps WWIII. War gives humans meaning, it is the biggest game we can have on Earth.
Regardless of the circumstances, a bad technical decision is never good from a business perspective.
After years of working in different places. It is my understanding that managers as a rule are not interested in right or better business decisions in a long or short terms, but instead interested in continuation of their employment and not necessarily in the same position or even with the same employer. We all know that most of the screw-ups result in re-shuffling of managerial position, with no consequences to the anyone but engineers, who has to suffer through yet another reorg. It is common that the least knowledgeable people end up on a top of the ladder. This is indeed a natural way of things and nor matter how properly organization was established and organized mismanagement and shit will cripple the system. We can fight it, but we cannot win. Which is not to say that we should not fight. The honest work of good scientists, engineers and true craftsmans in general is the only reason we technologically progressed from caves to what we are now.
after all shouldn't we just standardise on one fast foot resturaunt, then
Often when I go to a restaurant I want to see a single line in a menu, which says that they serve 'food' and the price. Even reading menus involves brain activity and we (simple people) don't like it. Many people would consider standardization of fast foot restaurants to be a Good Thing.
Even if they are crunched into a "black hole" the gravity is not enough to suck everything into it anymore than two electrons sitting next to each other could suck everything up.
They sure do suck the money (to do the experiment that is).
Just because you're biased against movies doesn't mean that the Matrix isn't "deep."
Amen. The beauty is in the eye of the beholder and so is the meaning. If you can deduce some deep insights from Matrix - then more power to you. Sorry but I will skip on Matrix.
It is not that everyone objects to movies with deep ideas, there are a lot of them ( movies that is ). It's just that characters in Matrix are too cool, they are more like a robots.
I think it is a long term trend of image taking over the substance and this movie exploits its very well. Take Tarkovsky's Solaris, it hardly had any graphics, let along CG, almost pure substance. Or his other movie 'Andrei Rublev', it is intentionally black and white with exception of couple of scenes at the end. I guess you can see that I like Tarkovsky, but that's beside the point that not everyone who does not like Matrix is elitist (of which I was accused here) and not everyone who likes it is a shallow.