There is a SCENE with YODA LANDING ON DEGOBAH -- in case you are still in shock, let me repeat, YODA LANDS ON DEGOBAH. We actually get to see his spaceship LAND ON DEGOBAH. This is like the final strand in an enormous tapestry. I can't believe this whole thing has come to fruition. In case there was any doubt, we find out how it comes to pass that Yoda lives on Degobah -- he LANDS IN A SPACESHIP. It's like we finally get the ancient family history of our collective psyche. When we were 5 years old and wondering how that little green imp came to live in that swamp, and now we finally SEE THE SHIP LAND.
Well, it didn't just 'stop' -- what happened was Europe became unable to expend the resources to control the colonies and fight two major wars at home. As the colonized sensed the weakness, major power struggles erupted -- some for independence, some for colonial rule, and, of course, continued tribal rivalries.
Remember, all politicians want more power, whether it's Hitler in Europe, France in Africa, some tribe making an agreement with France to fight the rival tribe, the rival tribe rallying yet more tribes to fight the first tribe that's the puppet of the French -- ultimately they all want to tell other people what to do.
Anywho, the place is a giant clusterfuck in no small part to Europe's meddling. It didn't just stop after WWII, it was still a giant clusterfuck, with an even larger power struggle, now that Europe was weakened and couldn't project power into Africa like they had done prior to WWI. What we are seeing today is the result of Europe losing the ability to rule Africa after WWII.
I think it's fair to argue that 'we' should help 'them', because for the last 200 years, the various western colonial powers pitted tribal groups against one another in order to divide and conquer them. They conquered them to exploit their natural resources. This exploitation of tribal groups and resources around the world allowed western Europe to become the most wealthy and powerful nations in the world. Once they started relinquishing their rule in the 20th century, they left a power vacuum where there are now countless wars, famines, and tragedies. In short, the west created this situation, through both action and inaction. I believe organizations should be held responsible for their actions, and they certainly have the werewithal to make up for their mistakes now.
I don't think their target audience is converts from debian based distros. More likey, it is people who have never used apt-get --- say, Windows users.
Anyway, Dewalt tools are more than just B&D painted yellow and given a new name. They are built tougher, and last much longer than their home-use counterparts.
Let's see how far we can recurse the topics in this thread.
Board games (and probably games in general) appeal to people who are interested in competing with others. Robotics kits appeal to loners, and certainly don't lend themselves to a group effort or competition. Sure, you can have robot battles *after* you or a team has built a robot, but at that point you are making a game out of the robot-building.
We need both types of projects to teach all kinds of kids logic.
Why does their maternity matter? Well, they are doing one of the most productive and valuable things for society -- raising children. Children are the only thing that ensure our long-term survival, and the only place they comes from is women. So in this sense they are much more productive than the RIAA as social entities (though there may be mothers working in the RIAA, the RIAA itself doesn'r produce babies).
Mothers are more important to society than the RIAA. If the RIAA, which is a leisure industry, is making life difficult for single mothers, who are doing the most productive work with the least amount of resources, we have our priorities misplaced.
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Coke and pepsi do this all the time. Go into McDonald's and you will find only Coke products. Go into Taco Bell and you will find only Pepsi. At the Ohio State University, you will find only Coke machines, and the hot dog vendors sell only coke products. Same for the Ohio State Fair.
Yeah... the funny thing is it took me about 20 minutes to come up with figures that worked out exactly. Even then I wasn't sure. Computers are just a tool, and if you really have problems with math, they won't work magic.
Remember that the $40 is an average. The $600 dollar chip might cost $350 to manufacture, while several other chips cost $10 to make, bringing down the average.
I remember this particular fable from a book about mathematics. Imagine a person at a job interview:
Prospective employee: What kind of salary might I expect if I were to work here? Owner: The average salary here is $85,000. PE: Sir, I will accept your offer for employment.
Then, two weeks later:
Current employee: I have a problem with my paycheck. It's only $769 and change. That works out to $20k a year, assuming a 52-week work year and ignoring taxes. Boss: So what's the problem? CE: I thought the average salary was $85,000. Boss: It is. The owner makes 5 million a year, and the other 5 employees, including me, make $20,000 a year. So, $5,000,000 + ( 5 * $20,000 ) is $5,100,000. Divide that by the total number of people working here, 6, and you get an average salary of $85,000. CE: Oh.
I'm terrible with numbers, so the above might not add up exactly, but the principle is the same here.
sorry, I have to take a cheap shot:
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A minor point -- do competitors mention the #1 so that they are equated with them (i.e. seen as the same as them) or so that they are seen as a valid competitor, that is, in the same class as the #1?
Throughout various places in the Andes, indigenous people make a sort of 'drink' called chicha. It's made either of corn if you're in the mountains, or cassava root (aka manoic or plantain) if you're in the jungle area. Traditionally it fermentation was started by women chewing the plant material and spitting it into a big tub. Nowadays they use other methods. It is said that the Incan empire was literally built on chicha rations.
I was in a field school for a couple summers in Ecuador. The second summer, we stayed with and indigenous family in the jungle. They made manioc chicha, but pounded the roots with thick sticks, and started fermentation with a sweet potato. When ready, it has various textures, from liquid at the top, to thick at the bottom with manoic bits. The taste is stlighty sour, bitter, and pasty. Absolutely disgusting, in both taste and texture. At times I felt like I was drinking baby spit-up (it is whitish). It was all I could do to choke down the last bits at the bottom. I didn't want to seem like a weenie in the jungle.
However, there is a slight alcohol content, and while I didn't notice it, it is enough to start you up if you lack the gene that lets you metabolize alcohol like Native Americans do.
Okay, if we can't push it, how about pulling it into Earth's orbit with gravitationally attractive device? Something just heavy enough to modify the comet's orbit right into orbit of Earth.
I think you are right. I'll guess that the point that the book is making is that the trafficking of child pornography was a dead crime before the internet, but I'll bet that had almost no effect on the prevalence of pedophelia in the society. With the advent of the internet, it makes it a lot easier to traffic in it.
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I doubt that pornography has a bad an effect as this book review seems to make it out to be.
For one, I bet that before the internet, the FBI simply wasn't aware of child pornography trafficking, maybe because of lack of resources, or infiltrants, etc. It's a lot easier to network up pedophiles on the internet, and trafficking is probably less riskier over the internet than postal mail or commercial delivery services. Maybe that's the point they're making, but I doubt that availability of child pornography makes more pedophiles.
Secondly, I think internet porn is so pervasive, it's rediculous to talk to addicts, etc. and say this is what porn is doing. It's hard enough to get some suburban dad to admit to digital pornography use, esp. to a stranger. If you interview weirdos, of course you will get a biased sample.
So then why have ostriches remained flightless for countless generations? Flight isn't the great instant benefit you make it out to be.
Animals don't learn skills like people do. The neurocircuitry for behavior evolves along with the large-scale morphological changes. It's like the zebras when they drop out of the womb -- the very first thing they do is stand up and start walking around. They never had to learn how to walk, they have it hardwired into them, and they're literally walking from birth.
What confuses people is that we learn certain skills, and when we witness animals growing their hardwired skills as part of their development process, it looks to us like they are learning.
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There is a SCENE with YODA LANDING ON DEGOBAH -- in case you are still in shock, let me repeat, YODA LANDS ON DEGOBAH. We actually get to see his spaceship LAND ON DEGOBAH. This is like the final strand in an enormous tapestry. I can't believe this whole thing has come to fruition. In case there was any doubt, we find out how it comes to pass that Yoda lives on Degobah -- he LANDS IN A SPACESHIP. It's like we finally get the ancient family history of our collective psyche. When we were 5 years old and wondering how that little green imp came to live in that swamp, and now we finally SEE THE SHIP LAND.
Remember, all politicians want more power, whether it's Hitler in Europe, France in Africa, some tribe making an agreement with France to fight the rival tribe, the rival tribe rallying yet more tribes to fight the first tribe that's the puppet of the French -- ultimately they all want to tell other people what to do.
Anywho, the place is a giant clusterfuck in no small part to Europe's meddling. It didn't just stop after WWII, it was still a giant clusterfuck, with an even larger power struggle, now that Europe was weakened and couldn't project power into Africa like they had done prior to WWI. What we are seeing today is the result of Europe losing the ability to rule Africa after WWII.
I think it's fair to argue that 'we' should help 'them', because for the last 200 years, the various western colonial powers pitted tribal groups against one another in order to divide and conquer them. They conquered them to exploit their natural resources. This exploitation of tribal groups and resources around the world allowed western Europe to become the most wealthy and powerful nations in the world. Once they started relinquishing their rule in the 20th century, they left a power vacuum where there are now countless wars, famines, and tragedies. In short, the west created this situation, through both action and inaction. I believe organizations should be held responsible for their actions, and they certainly have the werewithal to make up for their mistakes now.
I don't think their target audience is converts from debian based distros. More likey, it is people who have never used apt-get --- say, Windows users.
Anyway, Dewalt tools are more than just B&D painted yellow and given a new name. They are built tougher, and last much longer than their home-use counterparts.
Let's see how far we can recurse the topics in this thread.
Wouldn't that make GP a karma slut?
Karma whore! You're a dirty, smelly, pirate karma whore! Why don't you go back to your home on pirate karma whore island?!
We need both types of projects to teach all kinds of kids logic.
Mothers are more important to society than the RIAA. If the RIAA, which is a leisure industry, is making life difficult for single mothers, who are doing the most productive work with the least amount of resources, we have our priorities misplaced.
Coke and pepsi do this all the time. Go into McDonald's and you will find only Coke products. Go into Taco Bell and you will find only Pepsi. At the Ohio State University, you will find only Coke machines, and the hot dog vendors sell only coke products. Same for the Ohio State Fair.
Yeah... the funny thing is it took me about 20 minutes to come up with figures that worked out exactly. Even then I wasn't sure. Computers are just a tool, and if you really have problems with math, they won't work magic.
I remember this particular fable from a book about mathematics. Imagine a person at a job interview:
Prospective employee: What kind of salary might I expect if I were to work here?
Owner: The average salary here is $85,000.
PE: Sir, I will accept your offer for employment.
Then, two weeks later:
Current employee: I have a problem with my paycheck. It's only $769 and change. That works out to $20k a year, assuming a 52-week work year and ignoring taxes.
Boss: So what's the problem?
CE: I thought the average salary was $85,000.
Boss: It is. The owner makes 5 million a year, and the other 5 employees, including me, make $20,000 a year. So, $5,000,000 + ( 5 * $20,000 ) is $5,100,000. Divide that by the total number of people working here, 6, and you get an average salary of $85,000.
CE: Oh.
I'm terrible with numbers, so the above might not add up exactly, but the principle is the same here.
NT ;)
Wikipedia claims that the first 32-bit chip in the x86 line was the 386DX.
A minor point -- do competitors mention the #1 so that they are equated with them (i.e. seen as the same as them) or so that they are seen as a valid competitor, that is, in the same class as the #1?
I seem to recall some people calling manioc plaintain. I'm not sure though, but I think it might be a common, albeit mistaken, name.
I was in a field school for a couple summers in Ecuador. The second summer, we stayed with and indigenous family in the jungle. They made manioc chicha, but pounded the roots with thick sticks, and started fermentation with a sweet potato. When ready, it has various textures, from liquid at the top, to thick at the bottom with manoic bits. The taste is stlighty sour, bitter, and pasty. Absolutely disgusting, in both taste and texture. At times I felt like I was drinking baby spit-up (it is whitish). It was all I could do to choke down the last bits at the bottom. I didn't want to seem like a weenie in the jungle.
However, there is a slight alcohol content, and while I didn't notice it, it is enough to start you up if you lack the gene that lets you metabolize alcohol like Native Americans do.
Don't worry, you can watch them descend every year on the 15th of September and March.
Actually, it's hooking up with people from far-away villages.
Okay, if we can't push it, how about pulling it into Earth's orbit with gravitationally attractive device? Something just heavy enough to modify the comet's orbit right into orbit of Earth.
" Melinda Bird: Oh my God I'm laughing! "
Melinda Bird: OMG LOL!
I think you are right. I'll guess that the point that the book is making is that the trafficking of child pornography was a dead crime before the internet, but I'll bet that had almost no effect on the prevalence of pedophelia in the society. With the advent of the internet, it makes it a lot easier to traffic in it.
For one, I bet that before the internet, the FBI simply wasn't aware of child pornography trafficking, maybe because of lack of resources, or infiltrants, etc. It's a lot easier to network up pedophiles on the internet, and trafficking is probably less riskier over the internet than postal mail or commercial delivery services. Maybe that's the point they're making, but I doubt that availability of child pornography makes more pedophiles.
Secondly, I think internet porn is so pervasive, it's rediculous to talk to addicts, etc. and say this is what porn is doing. It's hard enough to get some suburban dad to admit to digital pornography use, esp. to a stranger. If you interview weirdos, of course you will get a biased sample.
Animals don't learn skills like people do. The neurocircuitry for behavior evolves along with the large-scale morphological changes. It's like the zebras when they drop out of the womb -- the very first thing they do is stand up and start walking around. They never had to learn how to walk, they have it hardwired into them, and they're literally walking from birth. What confuses people is that we learn certain skills, and when we witness animals growing their hardwired skills as part of their development process, it looks to us like they are learning.
... will be the internet reporting system.