Oh, why didn't I preview the bloody post... As I have already said, I don't think they are planning to nuke anyone (unless you count nuclear tests as nuking yourself). It's just showing that you have the technology to build long range missiles. And as Pakistan is a neighbouring country, it is more a message to the rest of the world.
I wasn't saying that India would want to attack those all those other countries. I was just saying that by showing that they have the capability to do some real harm to others, India would gain more influence in the world. Which would keep others from messing with them.
As for being peace-loving, that's what everybody says themselves to be.
India has the second largest population in the world. They have nuclear weapons and are capable of building ICBM-s to carry those nukes. Now, why in the world should Pakistan be the only place they want to hit with those nukes, if they have the means to for more? Why not take on China or the Muslim world? I think the rocket is a way of showing the rest of the world that India is a player, too.
Tell me again, what's the name of this piece of land between Alaska and the rest of the States? There should be an oil pipeline running from Alaska through Canada. And the state of Alaska is asking for money (billions of dollars) to build a gas pipeline, too. If you ask me, it would be a great idea for you to invade Canada in order to avoid any instability in the region (think Quebec);7
And as far as I know, they do drill oil and gas up there somewhere...
Out of sheer boredom, I actually tried to do this sometime this summer. I took a bunch (something around 20) of SCO stories and read all the +4/+5 comments. Surprise surprise, the overall situation wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be. Yes, there were some patterns in what was said, but even if someone did get modded up for saying something that was obvious they always had some argumentation supporting what they said. Simple bashing might get you modded up for a moment, but you'll be modded down the moment someone posts an intelligent reply.
Those student riots and wars are somehow triggered by the Illuminati and the Gnomes of Zurich having their global conventions on the exact same day, which only occurs every 21 years.
But revolutions and wars and things never happen just like that. You can't start a revolution from nothing, despite of what some have said.
Every revolution is preceeded by years of tensions quietly building up. But I don't think it is the sunspots that trigger the real action. You can't usually even really tell when some war or revolution actually begun. I mean, yes, you can say that WWII started on September 1st, 1939, but this is really only just the date when Germany attacked Poland. What about the events before? Or after? Yes, there was a war, but when did it begin? It's just the same with the 'War on Terror': for a lot of people, the date 09/11/2001 is when the 'war' began. But for some others, it's just a part of a process.
Why was it that there were so many things happening in 1968? I don't know. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Maybe it was (or at least seems to be) the result of many things that had happened before. But. For some, the year 1968 WAS just like any other. Nothing really happened, nothing changed because of these riots in Paris and Berlin. Life went on just the same for many people.
I don't put much value in the "evidence" presented on that webpage you linked. The choice of significant events is much too subjective to prove anything. Just like that other guy (whose post -- the grandparent of this one -- I regrettedly modded up; not the best way to waste a mod point) said, anything can look significant. It all depends on how you present things. Referring again to the linked webpage: the author consideres significant the increase in FBI's power after the Oklahoma city bombing, but the bombing itself was not mentioned separately, therefore not significant and not a sign of trouble (whereas FBI getting more power was considered to be a sign of stability by the author).
Sunspots (and other natural things) may have an effect on what we do, but what we do to ourselves we still do by ourselves. Or are we just robots who are triggered by Sun activity?
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So fucking what if he's a fucking pop star? He's just as human [1] as everybody else, not a god or something [2], why should he be treated differently? Just because you're rich and famous it doesn't mean that you can do whatever you please.
On the other hand, laws are just conventions. Unfortunately, only those who have a lot of money (or some other form of capital[3]), can afford to not live by them.
[1] Not counting the plastic surgery... [2] He's just a mortal, despite of what his fans may think. [3] Slashdot Karma doesn't count in the real world.
Damn, I completely forgot about stamp-collecting... But I don't think it's time for a new edition yet. So' I'll do an annotation. "See also: [list]" now reads as "See also: Physics, stamp-collecting."
And I also completely forgot about Life and Everything. So, stay tuned for 2nd Ed.!
Monopoly science: n. A science that tries to monopolize the knowledge (and explaining) of how the Universe works. See also: Physics, Theology, Philosophy, Sociology and Semiotics.
(those who feel left out should immediately report to me or the nearest AC; they will be duly noted in the next edition of this post)
There's another way of looking at this. In every sphere of culture (including science), there's a constant variation between explosive (revolutionary) and stable (evolutionary) development. In the phase of stable development, the ideas that came before are used, everything seems to be more anonymous; numerous writers and scientists may be known in their own circle, but forgotten quite soon. In the phase of explosion, revolutionary ideas are born and the Author, the genius is more important. So, the Author may be dying because there are no new ideas, but (s)he will rise again one day.
"People" is just a myth in itself. There's no such thing as "people" and they don't have a will, they don't know what they want (I don't know what I want. do you?).
Now, masses are a different thing. They might even know what they want, or at least what they all want at that particular moment. But as soon as the revolution or the riot is over, the masses turn back into "people" again.
Amassed efforts my ass. I don't think they have even really bothered to catch bin Laden or Hussein. They can't afford it -- otherwise, there would be no Enemy. There'd only be this mystical Terrorism -- but how the hell are you going to fight a word? No, they need to have someone who has a face, and Saddam and Osama are just the right persons to be the symbols of the enemy. I don't think there'd even be an enemy if there wasn't someone like Osama to point at.
Whether Saddam and Osama are on the good side or the bad side, depends on where you're standing. For me, they are the OUTside. Stone me to death if you want to, but I just don't care right now.
They will stop using that kind of tactics only when people stop falling for it. That is, about two days after hell has frozen over.
They say that there's two kinds of joy people can have when watching movies (this also applies to other things, too) -- the joy of discovery (of novelty) and the joy of recognition. It's so much easier to cause the second one, you can't really blame the studios for making money the easy way.
I swear, next time someone says "There is no spoon" I'm going to throw a spoon at them.
The kid who said "there is no spoon" really makes me a bit angry. How can he be so sure about it? This particular spoon you're holding in your hand, ready to fling it at me, is really just an image my sensory system has created. Whether it really exists or it's just my imagination, I can't tell. But, just the same, I can't say that it does not exist at all. This spoon here (already in mid-flight now) may not exist, but there might be one behind all those signs of spoons (just like there was a real world behind the Matrix -- or was there one?).
*Ouch!* the spoon hit me. Apparently my body believes that it's real. Foolish body, foolish!
There are several reasons why the legal system is what it is. The most important one being that humans' actions are ambiguous -- you can't always say what's right and what's wrong. No matter how you detailed the law is, there's always some grey areas between the black and the white. If the legal system worked like computer programming, O.J.Simpson would be in jail -- but so would many others who have killed someone in self defence. The system is built to prevent the second from happening, it would rather have hundred criminals walk free. It's not perfect, there's always a chance of mistakes, but I don't think anyone could come up with a system that satisfies everyone.
(Please note that literary criticism, social theory, and deconstruction are not named among the liberal arts.)
This list reminds me of a mythical Chinese encyclopedia, where animals are divided as "belonging to the emperor", "sucking pigs","listed in the current classification", "et cetera" and so on. Anyway, you could say that literary criticism has always considered itself to be a part of grammar or rhetoric and so has deconstruction (although it could be classified as just another method of (literary) criticism). Social theory? Well, that ought to be the outcome of studying all those liberal arts -- that you know how the society works.
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Oh, why didn't I preview the bloody post... As I have already said, I don't think they are planning to nuke anyone (unless you count nuclear tests as nuking yourself). It's just showing that you have the technology to build long range missiles. And as Pakistan is a neighbouring country, it is more a message to the rest of the world.
As for being peace-loving, that's what everybody says themselves to be.
India has the second largest population in the world. They have nuclear weapons and are capable of building ICBM-s to carry those nukes. Now, why in the world should Pakistan be the only place they want to hit with those nukes, if they have the means to for more? Why not take on China or the Muslim world? I think the rocket is a way of showing the rest of the world that India is a player, too.
That's because they haven't realized that /. is a game. Which is kinda ironic, as they were the ones who started it.
Tell me again, what's the name of this piece of land between Alaska and the rest of the States? There should be an oil pipeline running from Alaska through Canada. And the state of Alaska is asking for money (billions of dollars) to build a gas pipeline, too. If you ask me, it would be a great idea for you to invade Canada in order to avoid any instability in the region (think Quebec) ;7
And as far as I know, they do drill oil and gas up there somewhere...
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Which is worse, being locked inside your own mind or being locked in a jail?
So you do admit that Windows users are not free in their choice?!
Out of sheer boredom, I actually tried to do this sometime this summer. I took a bunch (something around 20) of SCO stories and read all the +4/+5 comments. Surprise surprise, the overall situation wasn't really as bad as I thought it would be. Yes, there were some patterns in what was said, but even if someone did get modded up for saying something that was obvious they always had some argumentation supporting what they said. Simple bashing might get you modded up for a moment, but you'll be modded down the moment someone posts an intelligent reply.
That's what they want you to think.
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Ouch? : |
Both capable and willing, I should add *looks at his scratched arm*
So is my cat.
So are the sunspots.
But revolutions and wars and things never happen just like that. You can't start a revolution from nothing, despite of what some have said.
Every revolution is preceeded by years of tensions quietly building up. But I don't think it is the sunspots that trigger the real action. You can't usually even really tell when some war or revolution actually begun. I mean, yes, you can say that WWII started on September 1st, 1939, but this is really only just the date when Germany attacked Poland. What about the events before? Or after? Yes, there was a war, but when did it begin? It's just the same with the 'War on Terror': for a lot of people, the date 09/11/2001 is when the 'war' began. But for some others, it's just a part of a process.
Why was it that there were so many things happening in 1968? I don't know. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Maybe it was (or at least seems to be) the result of many things that had happened before. But. For some, the year 1968 WAS just like any other. Nothing really happened, nothing changed because of these riots in Paris and Berlin. Life went on just the same for many people.
I don't put much value in the "evidence" presented on that webpage you linked. The choice of significant events is much too subjective to prove anything. Just like that other guy (whose post -- the grandparent of this one -- I regrettedly modded up; not the best way to waste a mod point) said, anything can look significant. It all depends on how you present things. Referring again to the linked webpage: the author consideres significant the increase in FBI's power after the Oklahoma city bombing, but the bombing itself was not mentioned separately, therefore not significant and not a sign of trouble (whereas FBI getting more power was considered to be a sign of stability by the author).
Sunspots (and other natural things) may have an effect on what we do, but what we do to ourselves we still do by ourselves. Or are we just robots who are triggered by Sun activity?
So fucking what if he's a fucking pop star? He's just as human [1] as everybody else, not a god or something [2], why should he be treated differently? Just because you're rich and famous it doesn't mean that you can do whatever you please.
On the other hand, laws are just conventions. Unfortunately, only those who have a lot of money (or some other form of capital[3]), can afford to not live by them.
[1] Not counting the plastic surgery...
[2] He's just a mortal, despite of what his fans may think.
[3] Slashdot Karma doesn't count in the real world.
And I also completely forgot about Life and Everything. So, stay tuned for 2nd Ed.!
(those who feel left out should immediately report to me or the nearest AC; they will be duly noted in the next edition of this post)
(ideas borrowed from Thomas Kuhn and Yuri Lotman)
Now, masses are a different thing. They might even know what they want, or at least what they all want at that particular moment. But as soon as the revolution or the riot is over, the masses turn back into "people" again.
Whether Saddam and Osama are on the good side or the bad side, depends on where you're standing. For me, they are the OUTside. Stone me to death if you want to, but I just don't care right now.
I don't have a life, so it won't affect me :P
They say that there's two kinds of joy people can have when watching movies (this also applies to other things, too) -- the joy of discovery (of novelty) and the joy of recognition. It's so much easier to cause the second one, you can't really blame the studios for making money the easy way.
The kid who said "there is no spoon" really makes me a bit angry. How can he be so sure about it? This particular spoon you're holding in your hand, ready to fling it at me, is really just an image my sensory system has created. Whether it really exists or it's just my imagination, I can't tell. But, just the same, I can't say that it does not exist at all. This spoon here (already in mid-flight now) may not exist, but there might be one behind all those signs of spoons (just like there was a real world behind the Matrix -- or was there one?).
*Ouch!* the spoon hit me. Apparently my body believes that it's real. Foolish body, foolish!
There are several reasons why the legal system is what it is. The most important one being that humans' actions are ambiguous -- you can't always say what's right and what's wrong. No matter how you detailed the law is, there's always some grey areas between the black and the white. If the legal system worked like computer programming, O.J.Simpson would be in jail -- but so would many others who have killed someone in self defence. The system is built to prevent the second from happening, it would rather have hundred criminals walk free. It's not perfect, there's always a chance of mistakes, but I don't think anyone could come up with a system that satisfies everyone.
This list reminds me of a mythical Chinese encyclopedia, where animals are divided as "belonging to the emperor", "sucking pigs","listed in the current classification", "et cetera" and so on. Anyway, you could say that literary criticism has always considered itself to be a part of grammar or rhetoric and so has deconstruction (although it could be classified as just another method of (literary) criticism). Social theory? Well, that ought to be the outcome of studying all those liberal arts -- that you know how the society works.