Exactly right. My often repeated favorite train of thought is that words have no power you do not give them.
If I say hookadookie is a racist slur that demeans Joe Red neck I have given that word no power. But if Joe Redneck accepts that definition and allows his emotions to say that word is painful/harmful to him then he has empowered the word.
Words are a conceptualization, as such they have no power.
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
The sad thing is that the way alcohol is treated makes no sense. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of accidents caused by drinking are caused by people with BACs of 0.15 or higher. Instead of paroling the roadways looking for these drivers (who are usually swerving all over the road -- how many times have you seen this with no police anywhere to be seen?) the police tend to sit outside bars and pull everybody over, looking for those who blow a hair over 0.08.
Part of the reason for what you say above is simple, the human body only absorbs alcohol so fast. A person with a 0.08 now could have a.15 in 20 mins. Better nab them too early than too late.
Not paranoid enough. Your index card system relies on teachers, teachers aides, drivers and their ability to read -- the original poster wants to rely on nothing but technology.
Not to mention the bullshit they pulled with iGoogle hope pages and FORCE feeding their latest beta to users who didnt want it and HATE the new format and giving them no way to remove it or opt out. For those not in the know it forced the blasted tabs on the side producing a gap similar to Gmail on the left side and its utterly ugly and a huge waste of real estate.
The problem is, when someone upstream from you starts filtering the spam they are just as likely to get ham and dump legit emails. So a sudden drop in spam is never a good thing.
Check with whoever is directly upstream of your server, they are likely filtering and dumping by RBL. Almost EVERY shared hosting service does this now whether they deny it or not, most will gladly lie if you ask and in some cases mom an pop hosting that has their servers in larger data centers get filtered by the larger data center. Today's Totals Processed: 5,230 20.6Mb Clean: 149 2.8% Viruses: 0 0.0% Top Virus: None Blocked files: 0 0.0% Others: 0 0.0% Spam: 64 1.2% High Scoring Spam: 5,017 95.9%
To hell with switchgrass find a way to turn Kudzu into ethanol and the south shall rise again! LOL j/k Sorry the 94 degree heat and the endless sea of green have sapped my senses....
Actually the only reason intel is likely pulling out of this is the lawsuit regarding the keyboard on the laptop they are running before they have to pay up....
Its been in limited use for years in Electric toothbrushes and its relatively safe. If you understand how inductance and transformers work then you've got more than half the understanding.
From Wikipedia "A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling with no moving parts. A transformer comprises two or more coupled windings, or a single tapped winding and, in most cases, a magnetic core to concentrate magnetic flux. A changing current in one winding creates a time-varying magnetic flux in the core, which induces a voltage in the other windings."
Think of these devices as each the charging base and the unit to be charged having half the transformer, bring them into proximity of each other and they begin to work. Ok its an over simplification but thats the basics.
Agreed, and another problem with that is the change has only to be minimal even as little as changing the purpose and/or dosage of a drug. While I can understand the reluctance of the industry to invest say what $100 million in developing a new drug, at the same time this lack of drive is caused by the patent system.
If you have an exclusive right to do something with no chance of competing with anyone else then there is no incentive to do anything to make the situation better, good example, mall food service. Many get 'exclusive' agreements for their type of food. So if a bakery opens then another competing store producing a bread product will be denied and there is no competition so the store in the mall can get away with whatever they want because what choice do you have?
I think its time to abolish patents in their current form. Or severely limit the time period they are effective for. 1 year for medial items, to allow a manufacturer to recoup their R&D costs and after that its the best fastest most efficient that would survive instead of the the company with the most Patent attorneys. Make them compete! There is no competition in a monopoly.
Because it teaches young girls that their self-worth is dependent on their ability to arouse a man. It exposes children to issues which they should not have to deal, and distorts their perception of the primary purpose of sex.
Today, American teenagers have epidemic rates of emotional problems. Where did they come from? What changed from 100 years ago?
100 years ago, heck, even 50 years ago, teenage girls prided themselves on their ability to do domestic duties - cooking, cleaning, social graces, etc. Teenage boys thought of sports and college. Now, both seem to be preoccupied with their appeal to the opposite sex. Their sense of self is now defined by factors largely beyond their control - i.e. their appeal to the opposite sex. Their happiness is no longer within their own control - it is now controlled by a fickle population, one beyond their ability to understand.
Porn only reinforces the notion that a person's self worth is a matter not of their personality and intelligence, but of their sexual appeal to others. It's a subjective, ever changing standard.
You defeated you own arguments here. Their self worth is tied to self image because even 50 years ago teenager worked far more than they do today. Their preoccupation with their self image is a result of too much time on their hands not a result of seeing someone unclothed. Some of the emotional problems also likely stem from the fact that by hiding them away in closets from the real world we create children who think of their bodies and what they can do with them as something dirty which is utterly ridiculous and a direct result of the overwhelming puritanical nature of our modern US society.
Slashdot Mirror
10 seconds in google can save you from a lifetime of shortsightedness...
http://definitions.uslegal.com/t/terroristic-threat/
In most places in the US a threat against a person is now considered a Terroristic Threat and is actionable.
Exactly right. My often repeated favorite train of thought is that words have no power you do not give them.
If I say hookadookie is a racist slur that demeans Joe Red neck I have given that word no power. But if Joe Redneck accepts that definition and allows his emotions to say that word is painful/harmful to him then he has empowered the word.
Words are a conceptualization, as such they have no power.
Discerning the physical location and movement of an object with radio waves, what can we call such a thing?
Ahh, yes, Radar...
Allowing a command line like this would ruin your Iphone experience.
Because Stevie Boy controls all aspects of your existences experience.
And are we sure that none of the other phones do this?
Its quite a simple answer.
We have the highest concentration of sheeple
This could go a long way towards treating other drugs like alcohol for driving purposes. One of the major roadblocks in legalization was no field test for driving while impaired.
The sad thing is that the way alcohol is treated makes no sense. Statistics show that the overwhelming majority of accidents caused by drinking are caused by people with BACs of 0.15 or higher. Instead of paroling the roadways looking for these drivers (who are usually swerving all over the road -- how many times have you seen this with no police anywhere to be seen?) the police tend to sit outside bars and pull everybody over, looking for those who blow a hair over 0.08.
Part of the reason for what you say above is simple, the human body only absorbs alcohol so fast. A person with a 0.08 now could have a .15 in 20 mins. Better nab them too early than too late.
Here I fixed this for you.....
Not paranoid enough. Your index card system relies on teachers, teachers aides, drivers and their ability to read -- the original poster wants to rely on nothing but technology.
http://www.jonesreport.com/articles/151106_fingerprint_lunch.html
..spammers lie.... what a concept.....
All your base belong to kentuckeeeeeeeeeee
What next Kentucky, a Slander suit to get the domain name away from Kentucky Fried Chicken?
Not to mention the bullshit they pulled with iGoogle hope pages and FORCE feeding their latest beta to users who didnt want it and HATE the new format and giving them no way to remove it or opt out. For those not in the know it forced the blasted tabs on the side producing a gap similar to Gmail on the left side and its utterly ugly and a huge waste of real estate.
Maybe if the sprinkle their routers with Melamine it will fix it for them.
The problem is, when someone upstream from you starts filtering the spam they are just as likely to get ham and dump legit emails. So a sudden drop in spam is never a good thing.
Check with whoever is directly upstream of your server, they are likely filtering and dumping by RBL. Almost EVERY shared hosting service does this now whether they deny it or not, most will gladly lie if you ask and in some cases mom an pop hosting that has their servers in larger data centers get filtered by the larger data center.
Today's Totals
Processed: 5,230 20.6Mb
Clean: 149 2.8%
Viruses: 0 0.0%
Top Virus: None
Blocked files: 0 0.0%
Others: 0 0.0%
Spam: 64 1.2%
High Scoring Spam: 5,017 95.9%
Totals from my domains for the day.
Nooooo the real solution is the US military one ;)
Don't ask, don't tell!
Why should the bios care what OS is running in the first place!
Demand your a-sexual MOBO today!
To hell with switchgrass find a way to turn Kudzu into ethanol and the south shall rise again! LOL j/k Sorry the 94 degree heat and the endless sea of green have sapped my senses....
Hey it worked for the green goblin! Why wont it work for a real arch villain.
Actually the only reason intel is likely pulling out of this is the lawsuit regarding the keyboard on the laptop they are running before they have to pay up....
Or until someone ports a nice version of linux to the iphone...
Now that would be sweet, unlocked, open source and freeeedom!
Hell if Disney can do it why not the feds! I always knew the government was a little Mickey Mouse....
Its been in limited use for years in Electric toothbrushes and its relatively safe. If you understand how inductance and transformers work then you've got more than half the understanding.
From Wikipedia "A transformer is an electrical device that transfers energy from one circuit to another by magnetic coupling with no moving parts. A transformer comprises two or more coupled windings, or a single tapped winding and, in most cases, a magnetic core to concentrate magnetic flux. A changing current in one winding creates a time-varying magnetic flux in the core, which induces a voltage in the other windings."
Think of these devices as each the charging base and the unit to be charged having half the transformer, bring them into proximity of each other and they begin to work. Ok its an over simplification but thats the basics.
Why settle for slapping it down on your desk. How about just get in your car.
Agreed, and another problem with that is the change has only to be minimal even as little as changing the purpose and/or dosage of a drug. While I can understand the reluctance of the industry to invest say what $100 million in developing a new drug, at the same time this lack of drive is caused by the patent system.
If you have an exclusive right to do something with no chance of competing with anyone else then there is no incentive to do anything to make the situation better, good example, mall food service. Many get 'exclusive' agreements for their type of food. So if a bakery opens then another competing store producing a bread product will be denied and there is no competition so the store in the mall can get away with whatever they want because what choice do you have?
I think its time to abolish patents in their current form. Or severely limit the time period they are effective for. 1 year for medial items, to allow a manufacturer to recoup their R&D costs and after that its the best fastest most efficient that would survive instead of the the company with the most Patent attorneys. Make them compete! There is no competition in a monopoly.
Because it teaches young girls that their self-worth is dependent on their ability to arouse a man. It exposes children to issues which they should not have to deal, and distorts their perception of the primary purpose of sex.
Today, American teenagers have epidemic rates of emotional problems. Where did they come from? What changed from 100 years ago?
100 years ago, heck, even 50 years ago, teenage girls prided themselves on their ability to do domestic duties - cooking, cleaning, social graces, etc. Teenage boys thought of sports and college. Now, both seem to be preoccupied with their appeal to the opposite sex. Their sense of self is now defined by factors largely beyond their control - i.e. their appeal to the opposite sex. Their happiness is no longer within their own control - it is now controlled by a fickle population, one beyond their ability to understand.
Porn only reinforces the notion that a person's self worth is a matter not of their personality and intelligence, but of their sexual appeal to others. It's a subjective, ever changing standard.
You defeated you own arguments here. Their self worth is tied to self image because even 50 years ago teenager worked far more than they do today. Their preoccupation with their self image is a result of too much time on their hands not a result of seeing someone unclothed. Some of the emotional problems also likely stem from the fact that by hiding them away in closets from the real world we create children who think of their bodies and what they can do with them as something dirty which is utterly ridiculous and a direct result of the overwhelming puritanical nature of our modern US society.