Geert Hofstede, a culture researcher from Netherlands made research for IBM all over the world in 1967-73 (at the time of and after the Cultural Revolution). He studied different cultural values, among them also individualism-collectivism. His research showed that in China, collectivism is indeed valued - if USA got about 90 points (the highest score of all) on a 100 point scale measuring the importance of individualism, then China got 20, equal to Ghana and Bangladesh and Nigeria. There were several mid-American countries (Panama, Guatemala, I don't remember them all) where the collective was even more important.
Heh. That article got it all wrong. Actually, the Illuminati are doing this to protect their diamond monopoly - as everyone knows that the core of Jupiter is a giant diamond.
It's patriotism, as true patriotism (and true belief) can only be external, on the outside. The recital is a ritual. It's not directed at you who recites it but at the state - you show the state that you are patriotic and loyal to it, even if you actually don't believe it (you just do it because you're told to - "the law is the law"). The state knows, of course, that you don't actually mean what you say, but it's always wise to check those who either don't recite the 'prayer' or are a bit too eager (the true believers are always the ones who are suspicious).
I think the parent may be referring to a bbc.co.uk article linked on Slashdot a few months ago where the author said that everyone but the ancient Greeks misuse the word 'irony'. Ironic, ain't it?
You can say that a physical device is an expression of ideas (as it is so), but there's a big difference between a piano as an expression of ideas and a book as an expression of ideas. You don't conceive a piano only by looking at the schematics (unless you are a really advanced Buddhist and freed yourself from the "reality"), you need to build it. Out of some kind of material. In case of a text written in a book, you create a mental image (or whatever) of it, but what you read never exists in reality. The same thing is with music - the sound doesn't exist as an object in the physical world (yes, the sound waves exist, but you still need something to interpret them in order to get sound). Software is like writing, as you don't actually have a physical word processor or OS kernel, the working program is more similar to a "mental" process than a physical (like a clock).
The Tao says: The most excellent of all shapes is like water - it takes the form of whatever vessel it's poured into. That's why the people who recompile their own kernels are a legion - one size doesn't always fit all.
If you enjoyed 2001, you must see Andrei Tarkovski's "Stalker". It's totally un-sci-fi sci-fi (all the 'sci' part in the original script was left out of the movie), no action etc, but requires lots of thought. One of my all time favourite movies. Tarkovski's "Solaris" should be good, too (I haven't seen it, though).
Man, it's more like coffeebreakly (Geek Code grammar qualifier: g----, I am GWB). Like someone already put it a few weeks ago - morning coffee break, morning SCO story; lunch coffee break, lunch SCO story etc.
I think it may even be. I remember seeing a story on TV about a US university (can't remember the name but it is famous for trusting the students not to cheat in exams), where they had a 'how stuff works' course. It was said to be their most popular course. Seemed pretty much mid- or high school level for me, but they still had a problem with cheaters who copied their course paper (an explanation about how some thing or another works)...
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Catacomb Abyss was the name. I remeber playing a shareware copy of it back in mid-90's. I didn't bother much, though - Wolf and Doom had much better (read: VGA) graphics...
I make the wild guess that you were joking, as I don't understand what system would someone try to subvert by spamming. The only answer I can come up with is that someone might try and ridicule the current democratic system this way - by showing how easy it is to brainwash people (the European equivalent of this may be the pro-EU campaign the Lithuanian government did...). But I don't see why should he do that...
I think the reason is, a storm is something natural, these things happen. Often [*]. The only difference is in size and where it hits. But people are used to natural disasters happening. However, what happend in NE US/SE Canada, was something unusual, something that doesn't happen as often as storms. Something you could, unlike a storm, blame on terrorists (my second or third thought after hearing about the blackout was "hmmm, they're probably speculate about it being a sabotage" and lo, the next thing they say is that GWB denies it being a terrorist attack).
[*] The storm in Memphis was in the papers here, by the way. Along the heat wave in Europe. It was also mentioned that these things are probably caused by the global warming. <sarcasm> This, of course, isn't worth air time in USA...</sarcasm>
The coin always has two sides. I don't have nothing against everyone having an opinion in some matter, on the contrary. But. You may be an expert in your field, but this doesn't automatically make you an expert in something else. Slashdot is a perfect example. Lots of people discussing things they sometimes don't know much about, but still acting as they do. You know, all those "IANAL, but..." posts and so on. Someone even has a signature saying that he types programs into a computer all day, so people should listen to what he has to say. He may have been sarcastic or something, I don't know. But this is pretty much the sentiment you see all over the net. The "reader is the editor" argument doesn't count, either - most readers are usually even more clueless. The ones who actually have a clue are rare, or just get lost amongst all those "experts". (And no, I don't enough about what I'm talking about right now -- otherwise, I would have felt that I don't know anything and wouldn't have posted at all).
CowboyNeal is the leader of the infamous group of guerilla gorillas also known as the Attack Monkeys, who have earned their ill reputation by generating the Slashdot front page.
The trackers use their great knowledge of animal sounds to secretly negotiate with those animals into letting them (ie trackers) go for the price of a few (expendable) researchers.
Someone behind "those guys on those airplanes" (it may have been Osama himself) said that they were themselves surprised at the outcome of the attack -- they didn't expect that the WTC towers would fall down. That still doesn't make all those people killed collateral damage, though -- they were aiming to kill civilians. Collateral damage would in this case be those buildings that were destroyed when hit by the debris of WTC...
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Geert Hofstede, a culture researcher from Netherlands made research for IBM all over the world in 1967-73 (at the time of and after the Cultural Revolution). He studied different cultural values, among them also individualism-collectivism. His research showed that in China, collectivism is indeed valued - if USA got about 90 points (the highest score of all) on a 100 point scale measuring the importance of individualism, then China got 20, equal to Ghana and Bangladesh and Nigeria. There were several mid-American countries (Panama, Guatemala, I don't remember them all) where the collective was even more important.
"Oh my god, that guy's completely naked under his clothes! What a pervert!"
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Heh. That article got it all wrong. Actually, the Illuminati are doing this to protect their diamond monopoly - as everyone knows that the core of Jupiter is a giant diamond.
It's patriotism, as true patriotism (and true belief) can only be external, on the outside. The recital is a ritual. It's not directed at you who recites it but at the state - you show the state that you are patriotic and loyal to it, even if you actually don't believe it (you just do it because you're told to - "the law is the law"). The state knows, of course, that you don't actually mean what you say, but it's always wise to check those who either don't recite the 'prayer' or are a bit too eager (the true believers are always the ones who are suspicious).
4 - Rob them of all possessions
I think the parent may be referring to a bbc.co.uk article linked on Slashdot a few months ago where the author said that everyone but the ancient Greeks misuse the word 'irony'. Ironic, ain't it?
Because it's impolite?
In Soviet Russia, all our bases are belong to YOU!
Of course not, it's a f#!@ng gazebo!
I hope what I said made any sense.
The Tao says: The most excellent of all shapes is like water - it takes the form of whatever vessel it's poured into. That's why the people who recompile their own kernels are a legion - one size doesn't always fit all.
If you enjoyed 2001, you must see Andrei Tarkovski's "Stalker". It's totally un-sci-fi sci-fi (all the 'sci' part in the original script was left out of the movie), no action etc, but requires lots of thought. One of my all time favourite movies. Tarkovski's "Solaris" should be good, too (I haven't seen it, though).
How exactly do you express your ideas by building pianos?
Man, it's more like coffeebreakly (Geek Code grammar qualifier: g----, I am GWB). Like someone already put it a few weeks ago - morning coffee break, morning SCO story; lunch coffee break, lunch SCO story etc.
I think it may even be. I remember seeing a story on TV about a US university (can't remember the name but it is famous for trusting the students not to cheat in exams), where they had a 'how stuff works' course. It was said to be their most popular course. Seemed pretty much mid- or high school level for me, but they still had a problem with cheaters who copied their course paper (an explanation about how some thing or another works)...
Catacomb Abyss was the name. I remeber playing a shareware copy of it back in mid-90's. I didn't bother much, though - Wolf and Doom had much better (read: VGA) graphics...
I make the wild guess that you were joking, as I don't understand what system would someone try to subvert by spamming. The only answer I can come up with is that someone might try and ridicule the current democratic system this way - by showing how easy it is to brainwash people (the European equivalent of this may be the pro-EU campaign the Lithuanian government did...). But I don't see why should he do that...
I think the reason is, a storm is something natural, these things happen. Often [*]. The only difference is in size and where it hits. But people are used to natural disasters happening. However, what happend in NE US/SE Canada, was something unusual, something that doesn't happen as often as storms. Something you could, unlike a storm, blame on terrorists (my second or third thought after hearing about the blackout was "hmmm, they're probably speculate about it being a sabotage" and lo, the next thing they say is that GWB denies it being a terrorist attack).
[*] The storm in Memphis was in the papers here, by the way. Along the heat wave in Europe. It was also mentioned that these things are probably caused by the global warming. <sarcasm> This, of course, isn't worth air time in USA...</sarcasm>
The coin always has two sides. I don't have nothing against everyone having an opinion in some matter, on the contrary. But. You may be an expert in your field, but this doesn't automatically make you an expert in something else. Slashdot is a perfect example. Lots of people discussing things they sometimes don't know much about, but still acting as they do. You know, all those "IANAL, but..." posts and so on. Someone even has a signature saying that he types programs into a computer all day, so people should listen to what he has to say. He may have been sarcastic or something, I don't know. But this is pretty much the sentiment you see all over the net. The "reader is the editor" argument doesn't count, either - most readers are usually even more clueless. The ones who actually have a clue are rare, or just get lost amongst all those "experts". (And no, I don't enough about what I'm talking about right now -- otherwise, I would have felt that I don't know anything and wouldn't have posted at all).
Recent events have shown that its intelligence is not functioning properly. The ape doesn't seem to mind, though.
CowboyNeal is the leader of the infamous group of guerilla gorillas also known as the Attack Monkeys, who have earned their ill reputation by generating the Slashdot front page.
The trackers use their great knowledge of animal sounds to secretly negotiate with those animals into letting them (ie trackers) go for the price of a few (expendable) researchers.
Someone behind "those guys on those airplanes" (it may have been Osama himself) said that they were themselves surprised at the outcome of the attack -- they didn't expect that the WTC towers would fall down. That still doesn't make all those people killed collateral damage, though -- they were aiming to kill civilians. Collateral damage would in this case be those buildings that were destroyed when hit by the debris of WTC...
The real reason, whatever that may be.