I don't think it is necessarily true that the brain thinks only what the tounge can say.
Sometimes people hold unreasoned opinions. That is, they think something for reasons they can't or at least haven't yet articulated. For instance I might hold that 789/5 = 2.92 but I'd have done my math wrong. I might also use different definitions of words to think than you do. Unless I define each and every word to myself in my head and then define all the words used in the definitions of those words and in the definitions of the words used in the definitions of the definitions ad nauseum, then I am thinking something I can not articulate.
Sometimes we do not articulate thoughts to ourselves because it is emotionally unsettling or we are too lazy.
Since the Space Shuttle and the ISS are useless wastes of money. Spending the money on other non-space oriented but useful things would be better. However I think the money saved from cancelling the shuttle and the space station should go into sending more probes/sattelites and developing cheaper access to space.
I don't know squat about what the military needs or doesn't need so I can't comment on that.
However AIDS is real and the sooner it can be controlled the better. 25 billion seems a reasonable number for AIDS.
But 15 billion is a freaken LOT of MONEY!. I think that 15 billion is a reasonable number for space exploration.
Nasa spends:
Space Science ( probes/telescopes etc ) : 3.414 billion
Space Flight ( Shuttle + ISS ) : 6.130 billion ( 3.208 shuttle, 1.492 ISS ) the remainder is 'overhead' for the shuttle and ISS not directly attributed to either one.
Astrobiology etc: 360 million
Earth science: 1.628 billion
Aerospace Technology ( R&D for new ways to get to space and enhance air travel ) : 2.815 billion
more details here The sum of the above numbers equals 14.3 billion. That's close enough to 15 billion to be fairly complete. Cancelling the space station and space shuttle would almost double NASA's budget.
Why not create a reactor that reacts Uranium hexaflouride. There could be no embrittlement since UF6 is a gas. Since it is a gas, the pressure could be used to moderate the neutrons right? Or mix it with steam if you need to.
In a reactor, the by-products would be ( probably automatically ) chemically seperated from the gas maybe as a solid ( idunno what substituting a barium/krypton/thorium/whatever in a UF6 molecule would yield: hopefully not fluorine gas but prolly Krypton+Fluorine is not a molecule. Maybe Krypton will decay into something more reactive fast enough to take up the excess flourine or maybe one of the other byproducts will be able to do it.)
In a rocket, why couldn't you just shoot the ( superhot ) crap out the ass end?
I hate the yung goat and puppy scat sex! channels too. I have one or two channels that I sometimes visit, but I never go looking for new channels because I don't want to sift through umpteen thousand crap channels to find one that might be good. I just/join #philosophy and chat there when I go on IRC even though it's mostly crap too.
I haven't been able to log onto DALnet for a few weeks ( Network Unreachable ) I wonder if the worm/virus/whzatever has anything to do with it or if it's just a dns problem of my ISP. I've had ( a different ) ISP totally banned from DALnet before. I dunno if someone using my ISP has been a bad boy. Maybe that's it. My ISP sux.
MAN! the lameness filter made it hard to post the name of that channel.
Just think, if you took that 5K and spent 1K of it to buy yourself a new pc every year, for four aout of the next five years you would have a faster computer than you do now.
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It selling adverts in games might generate enough hype to fool some investors into shelling out their dough to make some nice games, but once they money dries up and they look at the numbers, they'll see that the click through rates are awful. Ppl need to get creative and think of new ways to make free stuff for everyone by fooling rich investors into paying for it.
Can anyone think of a plausable way this could be applied? Imagine a worm that mates and produces offspring that are immune from virus scanners and which attack and spread in new ways automatically. A virtual beastiary of pathogenic code. Then imagine that some of these beasties evolve to do something useful for the people they infect like net searches. Imagine users choosing to host viruses that have attached themselves to a particular porno pic or program. Imagine that these services become more advanced and competition and cooperation for willing hosts between the beasties leads to a society of digital lifeforms symbiotic with humans ( we peovide the cpu cycles/storage, they provide the logic/programs/services/files )
This guy got caught by connecting to a specific spot to give his worm orders. Why not have orders be 'givable' from any infected computer. The worms would keep small lists of known infected machines and ask one of them if there were any new orders. If the other machine had newer encrypted orders, it would pass them on to whichever infected machine queried it.
I'd put it in a box and bury it in the woods for 'just in case'. Plus it would be cool to have some 'just to have', in the same way it would be kewl to have an imperial star cruiser toy. If I had some plutonium ( like enough for a bomb, it might be cool to put it in some water and have the Cerenkerovov ( sp ) radiation as a nite-light in my room.
If I had plutonium I'd paint it with that stuff thy use to put the plastic grips on tools so it wouldn't make no dust or get on my skin, and toss it to my friends. It would be so funny when they caught a tiny 7 kg slug and dropped it ( have to make sure 7kg won't chain react and make too much radiation ) maybe use less, than 7 kg but isn't that the 1/7 the size of a soda can, but it would be kewl to amaze your friends with the wieght of your 'lump of lead'
If I had plutonium I'd try to make a bomb out of it. Then I'd take it to the desert and blow it up. If it went off that would frikken ROCK. I always wanted to see on of them suckers go off. I'd do it on the 4th of july and invite some friends to have a bonfire and like a 30 pack of Natural Ice. They ought to blow up a nuke in the desert every year on the 4th of July so ppl can party in the desert around the perimeter. That would be kewl.
How can Freeman Dyson complain about a technical problem in Prey when his famous Dyson Sphere ( a star surrounded by a shell with ppl living on the inside ) is flawed as well.
Firstly, there would be no gravity inside the sphere unless it was spinning, and then only on a ring.
If it were spinning, it would flatten out from centrifugal force.
That would shake some things up.. AIX is ahead of Linux in many ways that are important to IBM. But IBM wants to be able to leverage open source developers and to offer the 'most commonly used' unix that will have the most people who are familiar with it. Instead of using linux and paying their coders to bring it up to IBM standards, why not release AIX under GPL and let the free software world port it to all sorts of platforms. That would truely leverage open source developers to make AIX the most widely used unix. As it is, Linux is getting scalability at IBM's expense and while IBM gets to use Linux, they already had AIX so they don't really gain anything they didn't have already.
BY DOWNLOADING THE SOFTWARE YOU HEREBY ACCEPT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS END USER LICENSE AGREEMENT. BY YOUR CONTINUED USE OF THIS SOFTWARE YOU CONSENT TO ADHERE TO THE TERMS OF THIS CONTRACT WHICH MAY CHANGE WITHOUT DIRECT NOTICE TO YOU.
The software ( "YourAnus" ) will ehance your computing experience by forwarding your private emails to random people in your address book with suggestions that they download and links to make it easy. Then the software will play fun jokes on you like corrupting files - especially text files and word documents by inserting random obscenities that you might not notice until you give it to someone else like your boss.
Finally, in order to increase your quality of life by encouraging you to get out and excersize more or maybe walk the dog, the "YourAnus" software will reformat your hard drive replacing your operating system with a mini-os that displays the goatse.cx picture when you turn your computer on. Any attempt t remove this os will result the software kindly resetting your horizontal refresh rate in order to make it explode.
It's a virus if it takes over your computer and you did not request it to. It doesn't matter if you set internet explorer to the laxest possible security, merely installing itself without your permission means Xupiter is accessing your computer to run their app without your permission.
If I cracked into your website because you didn't install a patch it would be your fault, but I would still go to jail for doing it.
I am on the patch right now, and it does get rid of the withdrawal symptoms, but I could quit for three days or so without the patch before and the withdrawals were almost gone by then. My downfall was that my wife smokes ( and has smoked for longer than me ( me=2 years her = 9 years ) and they'd be around, so I'd be bored and smoke one of hers.
She can't quit for even 24 hours cold turkey, but she hasn't had a cigarette for about a week on the patch. She tried welbutrin with me going cold turkey, but ended up in the emergency room with a wierd reaction ( numbness all over ). So we're doing the patch and so far so good.
Tobacco is the only addictive substance I've had trouble with ( the only other one I've tried being alcohol, but I can't feel an addiction like I can with tobacco )
As far as drugs go, the only real ones I've done is marijuana and shrooms ( psilocybe ). I don't like the feeling of either one so I only did the (self grown) shrooms once and smoke pot very rarely ( a puf or two a few times a year, maybe half a joint if I forgot how bad being really stoned feels ) but in some rare moods a slight stone can relax me. The truth is, weed was a gateway drug for me to start smoking tobacco since the coughing always stopped my attempts to do cigarettes. But I wanted to see what getting high felt like so I persevered through bong hits and joint tokes until I could get really stoned and find out I didn't like it.
Other (legal) highs I've tried:
Wormwood cigarettes. My brother bought some wormwood sawdust at the Mystical Mall and we smoked em in cig papers. Tried eating it too. My lungs couldn't take the smoke at the time which was pretty harsh. Both the smoke and the sawdust its EXTREMELY bitter. I didn't feel a thing, but my brother said he saw some tracers after smoking it all night. He was a smoker at the time ( I was not ). Not worth the gross taste IMO. NOTE: there is a French wine that is aged in wormwood casks that supposedly has hallucenogenic effects.
Kava kava. I bought a pound of powdered Kava Kava root ( related to black pepper oddly enough but not hot or spicy ) from some place in hawaii. ( they sell Kava Kava pills at Wal*Mart but the whole bottle is not enough to get high off of so I never tried those ) I strained the sawdust through cheesecloth per the instructions and drank about a quart of the foul tasting brew on my first try. It does make your mouth numb but that's about it. I choked down 2 quarts at another time and still nothing but a numb mouth. The stuff tastes like sawdust mixed with water - which is what it is. GROSS.
Some day I might try Salvia Divinorum ( another legal high ) but I dunno. The leaves are supposedly disgusting tasting and drugs are not my thing anymore.
Aminita Muscaria mushrooms grow wild around here where it gets cold and I've seen them and feel comfortable that I could differentiate the orange to red mushrooms with white spots from the other (deadly) aminitas that grow around here ( though I'd make sure it was BRIGHT red so I didn't accidentally get a Aminita Pantherina which is yellow to orange w/white spots. ) I doubt I'd ever try this though because you have to eat alot, and this is the same drug given to vikings to make them into berserkers. ( African warriors use it for the same purpose )
Deadly Nightshade - grows under my porch - nightmare hallucinations - no thank you.
We used to smoke these in Boy Scouts. Alls you do is get a bubble gum wrapper, and wrap up a bunch of pine needles in em and tape or hold it shut. Then you pass it to your friend and dare em to smoke it.
Other fun boyscout pasttimes:
Abortions in a can: Step one: Build a fire and burn a can of beans until it's clean of gunk ( optional ). Step 2 remove can from fire. Step 3 get some frog eggs from stream or pond and put them in the can. Step 4 put the can on the fire and bring to boil adding woodland foiliage or garbage as desired. Oila! Instant abortions in a can
Jack be nimble: Jump over roaring fire without getting burnt
That's the first p2p application. 99% of what most ppl use usenet for is downloading pr0n. Though most pics are posted as teaser ads from web-sites I doubt the copyright fees have been paid on most of it. One has no idea if the poster of a random usenet pr0n pic owns the copyright or not. For that matter there is no way for Joe Sixpack who uses Kazaa to know that the Eminem song he is downloading is NOT being shared from a server run by a record company as a 'promotion'.
I'll download anything I darn well please. MP3 too
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Frankly morals have no bearing on copyright. There is no thou shalt not copy without paying a fee commandment. Copyright is a law designed to encourage the production of art and prose and patents are designed to promote more new technology. More cartoons/music/gizmos is a societal goal that I do not agree with enough to shell out cash if I don't have to. Sorry, that is a donation I'm not willing to make. I'll give to the poor if I feel generous. Downloading MP3s is not stealing it's copying and nobody can stop me from doing it, so I'll guiltlessly pirate anything I want.
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Sometimes people hold unreasoned opinions. That is, they think something for reasons they can't or at least haven't yet articulated. For instance I might hold that 789/5 = 2.92 but I'd have done my math wrong. I might also use different definitions of words to think than you do. Unless I define each and every word to myself in my head and then define all the words used in the definitions of those words and in the definitions of the words used in the definitions of the definitions ad nauseum, then I am thinking something I can not articulate.
Sometimes we do not articulate thoughts to ourselves because it is emotionally unsettling or we are too lazy.
Since the Space Shuttle and the ISS are useless wastes of money. Spending the money on other non-space oriented but useful things would be better. However I think the money saved from cancelling the shuttle and the space station should go into sending more probes/sattelites and developing cheaper access to space.
However AIDS is real and the sooner it can be controlled the better. 25 billion seems a reasonable number for AIDS.
But 15 billion is a freaken LOT of MONEY!. I think that 15 billion is a reasonable number for space exploration.
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The sum of the above numbers equals 14.3 billion. That's close enough to 15 billion to be fairly complete. Cancelling the space station and space shuttle would almost double NASA's budget.
In a reactor, the by-products would be ( probably automatically ) chemically seperated from the gas maybe as a solid ( idunno what substituting a barium/krypton/thorium/whatever in a UF6 molecule would yield: hopefully not fluorine gas but prolly Krypton+Fluorine is not a molecule. Maybe Krypton will decay into something more reactive fast enough to take up the excess flourine or maybe one of the other byproducts will be able to do it.)
In a rocket, why couldn't you just shoot the ( superhot ) crap out the ass end?
I haven't been able to log onto DALnet for a few weeks ( Network Unreachable ) I wonder if the worm/virus/whzatever has anything to do with it or if it's just a dns problem of my ISP. I've had ( a different ) ISP totally banned from DALnet before. I dunno if someone using my ISP has been a bad boy. Maybe that's it. My ISP sux.
MAN! the lameness filter made it hard to post the name of that channel.
I had a 5200 & all 8 games for it. JOUST RULED!! I had 2000000 points!!!
Just think, if you took that 5K and spent 1K of it to buy yourself a new pc every year, for four aout of the next five years you would have a faster computer than you do now.
It selling adverts in games might generate enough hype to fool some investors into shelling out their dough to make some nice games, but once they money dries up and they look at the numbers, they'll see that the click through rates are awful. Ppl need to get creative and think of new ways to make free stuff for everyone by fooling rich investors into paying for it.
Can anyone think of a plausable way this could be applied? Imagine a worm that mates and produces offspring that are immune from virus scanners and which attack and spread in new ways automatically. A virtual beastiary of pathogenic code. Then imagine that some of these beasties evolve to do something useful for the people they infect like net searches. Imagine users choosing to host viruses that have attached themselves to a particular porno pic or program. Imagine that these services become more advanced and competition and cooperation for willing hosts between the beasties leads to a society of digital lifeforms symbiotic with humans ( we peovide the cpu cycles/storage, they provide the logic/programs/services/files )
This guy got caught by connecting to a specific spot to give his worm orders. Why not have orders be 'givable' from any infected computer. The worms would keep small lists of known infected machines and ask one of them if there were any new orders. If the other machine had newer encrypted orders, it would pass them on to whichever infected machine queried it.
If I had some plutonium ( like enough for a bomb, it might be cool to put it in some water and have the Cerenkerovov ( sp ) radiation as a nite-light in my room.
If I had plutonium I'd paint it with that stuff thy use to put the plastic grips on tools so it wouldn't make no dust or get on my skin, and toss it to my friends. It would be so funny when they caught a tiny 7 kg slug and dropped it ( have to make sure 7kg won't chain react and make too much radiation ) maybe use less, than 7 kg but isn't that the 1/7 the size of a soda can, but it would be kewl to amaze your friends with the wieght of your 'lump of lead'
If I had plutonium I'd try to make a bomb out of it. Then I'd take it to the desert and blow it up. If it went off that would frikken ROCK. I always wanted to see on of them suckers go off. I'd do it on the 4th of july and invite some friends to have a bonfire and like a 30 pack of Natural Ice. They ought to blow up a nuke in the desert every year on the 4th of July so ppl can party in the desert around the perimeter. That would be kewl.
It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
You'd think a medical doctor would now more about the physics od cell sized things than that...
Firstly, there would be no gravity inside the sphere unless it was spinning, and then only on a ring.
If it were spinning, it would flatten out from centrifugal force.
Dude I used AIX for 2 years and the documentation sucked. I've used Linux ever since and the documentation is great.
That would shake some things up.. AIX is ahead of Linux in many ways that are important to IBM. But IBM wants to be able to leverage open source developers and to offer the 'most commonly used' unix that will have the most people who are familiar with it. Instead of using linux and paying their coders to bring it up to IBM standards, why not release AIX under GPL and let the free software world port it to all sorts of platforms. That would truely leverage open source developers to make AIX the most widely used unix. As it is, Linux is getting scalability at IBM's expense and while IBM gets to use Linux, they already had AIX so they don't really gain anything they didn't have already.
The software ( "YourAnus" ) will ehance your computing experience by forwarding your private emails to random people in your address book with suggestions that they download and links to make it easy. Then the software will play fun jokes on you like corrupting files - especially text files and word documents by inserting random obscenities that you might not notice until you give it to someone else like your boss.
Finally, in order to increase your quality of life by encouraging you to get out and excersize more or maybe walk the dog, the "YourAnus" software will reformat your hard drive replacing your operating system with a mini-os that displays the goatse.cx picture when you turn your computer on. Any attempt t remove this os will result the software kindly resetting your horizontal refresh rate in order to make it explode.
It's a virus if it takes over your computer and you did not request it to. It doesn't matter if you set internet explorer to the laxest possible security, merely installing itself without your permission means Xupiter is accessing your computer to run their app without your permission.
If I cracked into your website because you didn't install a patch it would be your fault, but I would still go to jail for doing it.
But I suck. They beat me to an implementation it looks like
You could demand all you want. Doesn't mean you'd get anything. If you make a threat then the police would give you a ride in their car tho.
She can't quit for even 24 hours cold turkey, but she hasn't had a cigarette for about a week on the patch. She tried welbutrin with me going cold turkey, but ended up in the emergency room with a wierd reaction ( numbness all over ). So we're doing the patch and so far so good.
Tobacco is the only addictive substance I've had trouble with ( the only other one I've tried being alcohol, but I can't feel an addiction like I can with tobacco )
As far as drugs go, the only real ones I've done is marijuana and shrooms ( psilocybe ). I don't like the feeling of either one so I only did the (self grown) shrooms once and smoke pot very rarely ( a puf or two a few times a year, maybe half a joint if I forgot how bad being really stoned feels ) but in some rare moods a slight stone can relax me. The truth is, weed was a gateway drug for me to start smoking tobacco since the coughing always stopped my attempts to do cigarettes. But I wanted to see what getting high felt like so I persevered through bong hits and joint tokes until I could get really stoned and find out I didn't like it.
Other (legal) highs I've tried:
Some day I might try Salvia Divinorum ( another legal high ) but I dunno. The leaves are supposedly disgusting tasting and drugs are not my thing anymore.
Aminita Muscaria mushrooms grow wild around here where it gets cold and I've seen them and feel comfortable that I could differentiate the orange to red mushrooms with white spots from the other (deadly) aminitas that grow around here ( though I'd make sure it was BRIGHT red so I didn't accidentally get a Aminita Pantherina which is yellow to orange w/white spots. ) I doubt I'd ever try this though because you have to eat alot, and this is the same drug given to vikings to make them into berserkers. ( African warriors use it for the same purpose )
Deadly Nightshade - grows under my porch - nightmare hallucinations - no thank you.
Other fun boyscout pasttimes:
As long as you don't charge anything to it, you're welcome to it.
That's the first p2p application. 99% of what most ppl use usenet for is downloading pr0n. Though most pics are posted as teaser ads from web-sites I doubt the copyright fees have been paid on most of it. One has no idea if the poster of a random usenet pr0n pic owns the copyright or not. For that matter there is no way for Joe Sixpack who uses Kazaa to know that the Eminem song he is downloading is NOT being shared from a server run by a record company as a 'promotion'.
Frankly morals have no bearing on copyright. There is no thou shalt not copy without paying a fee commandment. Copyright is a law designed to encourage the production of art and prose and patents are designed to promote more new technology. More cartoons/music/gizmos is a societal goal that I do not agree with enough to shell out cash if I don't have to. Sorry, that is a donation I'm not willing to make. I'll give to the poor if I feel generous. Downloading MP3s is not stealing it's copying and nobody can stop me from doing it, so I'll guiltlessly pirate anything I want.