I don't know about silver iodide, but colloidal silver, which is what people take to fight bacteria ( I'm making no implied claims about it's efficacy ), is not harmful. You can take too much of it, and since it never leaves your cells, you do get colored blue, but there are no health consequences from it ( benefit claims notwithstanding. )
The libertarian candidate for Senator from Montana on the last go around took too much before Y2K, and he's as blue as his suit jacket! IMHO, didn't help the libertarian party's 'image' problem. They ran the blue guy for senator? What, did he beat out the guy with three arms?
If silver were bad for your skin, they wouldn't make jewelry out of it.
Dreams are generally a kind of "mix-tape" of various memories -- they're constructed from memories. Is this your personal theory or did you read this somewhere? AFAIK, there is no generally accepted theory as to what dreams are, how they are generated, etc. In fact, I think the only objective measurement of 'dreaming' is rapid eye movement during sleep. And even that doesn't necessarily indicate 'dreaming' -- we only know that because when we wake people who are showing REM say that they were dreaming when you woke them.
There was a professor of Religious Studies, Jonathan Smith, who claimed that that dreams weren't real, he didn't dream, and nobody really dreamed. He says the reason we talk about dreams was a way to communicate otherwise socially unacceptable ideas, like telling a fairy tale. How would you prove him wrong? Showing him that people's eyes move when they sleep? Your eyes move when you sleep; so what?
A quick interpretation might be that people listening are simply 'making up' any difference they hear between the 'circuits'.
However, I wonder if everyone is having a synaesthetic experience of the circuits -- that when you see the red light, you experience the sound as 'warmer', and when you see the blue light, you experience the the sound as colder and more distant. What do you think?
It would still shift the balance of power. There are tons of little countries who can't muster the resources and organization to put together a threat ( either military or economic ) to the US. But if the secrets were revealed, there might be an 'Andean Union' of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, perhaps Ecuador, who form their own joint defense program. We've been fucking over South America for better than 50 years now. Combine that with the resurgence of Indigenous identity, it means no more cheap food from South America for us anymore.
Your post reminds me of a party I went to once with Chinese grad students in America. We played a Chinese version of 'murderer'. In the US, there is one murderer who kills by winking at a person. The non-murderers try to guess who the murderer is. If they guess correctly, the game ends; if they guess incorrectly, they die. (There is a ref who chooses the murderer and arbitrates accusations). Ultimately the goal is justice. The ref simply says "You guessed the murderer", or "You have falsely accused the innocent. You're dead."
However, in the Chinese version, the accused simply defends themselves verbally "I can't be the murderer! I was looking at you when Stacy was killed!". It's a game of treachery, and you use your wits to stay alive. I don't recall all of the details, but to me, is was markedly different from the American version. A lot depended on how well you could defend yourself.
Then again he's a smart guy. Maybe he or his lawyer can work out some Johnny Cochrane type mindtrick to get him off. He's a smart guy when it comes to computers, machines, and inanimate objects. I'll bet he's on the Autism/Asperger's spectrum.
I'll bet that he's so smart with computers that he thinks he's good at everything ( perhaps even murdering people ). He might think that he can get what he wants out of the jury by using a simple command or technicality, just like a computer hard drive. But most neurotypicals judge people on some kind of gut feeling or likability, not any technical matters like truth, justice, or evidence.
Don't get me wrong, there are 'people geeks' who employ simple tricks to get what they want out of people. But Hans does not come off as a sophisticated charmer. Any clever stunts he tries to pull with this jury will go down in flames.
Is the following a fact or faith? The Sun will rise tomorrow (whether over clouds or otherwise). What say ye? Neither, as the sun is stationary and therefore unable to rise. Perhaps the correct question to ask would be "As the Earth continues in it's daily rotation, will there be a sun in the sky tomorrow" If you're going to claim that it's inaccurate to say that "the sun will rise tomorrow", then you must realize it's just as silly to say that the sun will "be in the sky tomorrow". What, is the sun going to be in Earth's atmosphere tomorrow?
If the sun will *appear* to be in the sky tomorrow, it can also *appear* to rise.
Try using the Mayan calendar. It's a circle, so you can keep using it on and on into the future. A big rollover is coming in 2012! Every 25,920 years, the sun completes is journey around the sky ( known as the Precession of the Equinoxes in the west ) and returns to the dark center of the Milky Way to be reborn.
Now solve the problem for other works than just music. Or do you expect me to make the video games (or film the movie) you just enjoyed live? As another poster pointed out, films that are made outside of Hollywood and Bollywood are created through government subsidies. Heck, you can even argue that Hollywood is supported by a defacto government subsidies! Hollywood studios have been permitted to cook the books to the point where no movie has technically made a profit -- therefore the studios pay no taxes. I predict that video games into the future will increasingly be created with open-source software and user-created content. Most popular computer strategy games already have level builders. Once a few decent, really customizable and useable engines get out there, it's "game over" for the industry. Imagine a second-life/WOW mash-up.
The ability to charge for a music recording was a 100 year bubble that was created by technology. Before that, musicians made a living by playing gigs. But face the facts -- most of the time, there weren't professional musicians. In the middle ages, composers and musicians were sponsored by the royalty. Music, and the arts in general, has always been a side gig. Full-time professionals have been sponsored by governments. Even most bands with a contract don't actually make a *living* from the album sales -- that all goes to the record companies. The band makes money from playing live gigs.
You're saying that copyright allows creation to happen? Bullshit. Artist make are because they are driven to. They create regardless of their economic circumstances. All of the artists I know have day jobs, and create in their free-time, or live in near poverty, and create full-time. All that copyright has done has allows industries, such as the studios and the recording companies to pop up. Think about it -- people have been writing songs for thousands of years. Most songs that are played are covers of someone else's song, or a song that has been passed down through the ages. Copyright has only been around, what? 400 years? It's elimination won't have any impact whatsoever on song creation.
You really can't feed yourself by playing music or painting. You have to go out and work in the field or the office. The arts are what you do in your spare time, when you are done with work.
What you're overlooking is that a lot of these genetic defects only show up in the presence of other genes.
If you have one sickle cell allele, your red blood cells are slight misshapen, and the malaria plasmodia can't inhabit them. But other than that, you are totally normal -- no anemia.
However, if you have two sickle-cell alleles, then your red blood cells are deformed to the point where you can't get enough oxygen around in your system. You are still malaria-resistant, but you are also anemic.
So if you live an a malaria-endemic area, it's best to have one sickle-cell allele, over none or both. No malaria, no anemia. If you have both, you have anemia, if you have none, you get malaria.
If evolution was still allowed to take it's proper course, people who were born with congenital heart defects and brain defects would all die at a very early age. That's true, but the carriers of recessive alleles would continue to pass on their genes, and some of those traits might have benefits for selection. Some of those children would inherit recessive defects, but others would only get one allele, perhaps to some benefit.
So, under non-human-influenced evolution, it's not like all of these traits are ruthlessly rooted out.
This phenomenon is well-known in the comedy world. If they can afford it, a comedian will oftentimes have a warmer in the crowd, who just laughs at the appropriate moments. I heard a Charlie Murphy interview where he talks about doing this for Eddie when he was starting out.
Well, if you are talking about voting records, you would have to admit that Ron Paul's is at least as impressive as Kuciniches'. He's no political opportunist.
If you think that Ron Paul is another Republican Neocon or fascist, you are sadly misinformed. Your guy Kucinich even said he would have Ron Paul as a running mate!
And there is a certain candidate [Dennis Kucinich] from Ohio that may try to roll it back. He is the ONLY candidate to have voted against the Patriot Act. Ron Paul voted against the PATRIOT act.
I've talked to several liberal democrats who are crossing over to support and vote for Ron Paul, while I've never heard of a conservative republican who would cross over to vote for Kucinich. Who has a better chance of winning?
Anthropologist Wade Davis was the one to crack the secret of the Hatian voo-doo zombie recipe here in North America. Turns out it was puffer-fish poison. He had to join secret societies to learn the secret. His book, "The Serpent and the Rainbow", details this struggle. The movie is crap, though.
Not really, because at different time periods there will be different strengths of solar wind, and some of those will reach farther out from the sun than others before they stop. If I'm reading you right, you just argued my point. Originally, ancestor said that we need to measurements for the solar wind fluctuation, time and distance. I said that that was redundant; if a phenomena varies in distance, it therefore *must* vary in time, unless it's a counter-intuitive phenomena like quantum physics where a thing can have a superposition.
Refer back to the 'waves on a beach' analogy again. So what you're telling me is that when someone claims that the waves on a beach have a variable distance, those distances might be at the same moment in time?
Or, are you talking about the fact that there are multiple waves in the ocean, each with their own distance measure in the same moment of time? If that's the case, then what is this single "termination shock" that Voyager is passing? Isn't that equivalent to the furthest wave, or outermost reach of solar wind, which has a single distance value in a moment of time?
Why isn't the article talking about Voyager passing "termination shocks", one for each solar wind-front (or, each wave-swell in the ocean)? Isn't it talking about the final termination shock, at the end of solar wind emanations from the sun?
Or can the furthest wave have two distances at one time?
I remember reading somewhere along the line about a 'geon' theory of vision. This theory posited that the mind had a 'virtual reality' of basic 3-d geometric shapes, which the mind used like legos to build a model of what it saw. So you have cubes, cylinders, and spheres, which you used to model the things you saw.
Then it occurred to me that very few things we saw were geometric objects, or composed of geometric primitives. It's really only until you start living in cities and dealing with manufacturing goods that you start to encounter geometric objects.
If you buy the theory that modern human beings evolved on the savannahs of Africa some 100,000 years ago, the only geometric objects they would have seen were the sun and the moon. Instead, imagine this scene:
A field of short grasses is split by a meandering stream. On the other bank, shrubs conceal the trails of various grazing animals. Beyond that the treeline begins, a wall of various deciduous species. Above that, various cloud formations obscure the blue sky. No, if you're a savy hunter gather, you need to read that landscape, and there aren't any geometric objects anywhere. You need to see animal tracks and trails in the grassland. See how deep and how fast the water is moving from looking at the surface. Find predators lurking in the shrubs. Identify various plant species for food, materials, and medicines. Read the clouds above to foretell the weather.
I don't know how you would accomplish any of those tasks using classical geometry or the Pythagorean theorem -- there aren't any triangle. Perhaps using fluid dynamics modeling to analyze the stream and the clouds, and maybe fractal geometry to analyze the plants. I don't know, but I think we're a long way from the answer.
The solar winds do not continue on forever -- they hit the termination shock and effectively stop. Okay, so then can we simply say that there is only one measurement for the aggregate of solar wind, namely distance from the sun, and not worry about the time factor then?
"Nope. The solar winds overlap each other." This would imply that yes, it _does_ have multiple distance values in a single moment of time. Okay, so then what is this "termination shock" that Voyager is going to encounter? Isn't it encountering a termination shock every time it outpaces an overlapping solar wind front? What's this big deal about this termination shock?
Do the solar winds continue on forever, to the point where the first light from the sun now reaches out into the universe? Or is there a final outer boundary of solar winds, and wouldn't it therefore have a single 3-D distance value in time? The article doesn't seem to imply that Voyager is encountering various termination shocks from overlapping solar winds; it seems to say it's going outside of *all* solar winds.
Are you SURE that it fluctuates in time from the sun, or do you actually mean that it fluctuates (only) in distance from the sun? The termination shock fluctuates in distance because it's an interaction between the heliosphere of the sun and the interstellar medium. Parts will experience more drag due to magnetic fields, and thus be closer to the sun than other parts of the shock. It fluctuates in time because the sun's output fluctuates in time -- when the solar winds are stronger, the corresponding parts of the termination shock will be further away. So it fluctuates in both time and distance, and depends upon solar activity. Just as the writeup said. OK, but isn't it redundant to say that the termination shock fluctuates in both distance *and* time?
It's like saying that a car's speed varies in both velocity and time -- in other words, at one moment it might be going 40 MPH and at another 60 MPH. But we know that at no single moment in time will it be going both 40 and 60 MPH. As human beings, we don't expect phenomena like this to have two values at the same time, so saying that it varies in both velocity and time ( or distance and time ) is redundant. Simply saying that "it varies" implies, in common language, that it varies throughout time: that it only have a single value per unit of time. Every day phenomena don't vary in a single instance of time.
Now I know that the universe is a strange place where phenomena exist that defy our intuitive physics, but I think this one is rather obvious. The phenomenon is simple, and the terminator varies only in distance. The fact that is also varies in time is implicit in saying that it varies in distance -- we don't consider the possibility that it has multiple distance values in a single moment of time.
I guess the only person who might need this explained to them is perhaps a scientist who is used to dealing with quantum phenomena on a daily basis, and may not be making the same assumptions as other people;)
The crypto is fine. It's just been applied in an obviously flawed manner. What about a technology that is theoretically sufficient to accomplished the job it was designed for, but the implementation of such is so counter-intuitive that any human user stands a good chance of thinking it's working when it's not?
In other words, crypto works -- but the problem is getting human beings to do proper crypto.
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I don't know about silver iodide, but colloidal silver, which is what people take to fight bacteria ( I'm making no implied claims about it's efficacy ), is not harmful. You can take too much of it, and since it never leaves your cells, you do get colored blue, but there are no health consequences from it ( benefit claims notwithstanding. )
The libertarian candidate for Senator from Montana on the last go around took too much before Y2K, and he's as blue as his suit jacket! IMHO, didn't help the libertarian party's 'image' problem. They ran the blue guy for senator? What, did he beat out the guy with three arms?
If silver were bad for your skin, they wouldn't make jewelry out of it.
There was a professor of Religious Studies, Jonathan Smith, who claimed that that dreams weren't real, he didn't dream, and nobody really dreamed. He says the reason we talk about dreams was a way to communicate otherwise socially unacceptable ideas, like telling a fairy tale. How would you prove him wrong? Showing him that people's eyes move when they sleep? Your eyes move when you sleep; so what?
A quick interpretation might be that people listening are simply 'making up' any difference they hear between the 'circuits'.
However, I wonder if everyone is having a synaesthetic experience of the circuits -- that when you see the red light, you experience the sound as 'warmer', and when you see the blue light, you experience the the sound as colder and more distant. What do you think?
It would still shift the balance of power. There are tons of little countries who can't muster the resources and organization to put together a threat ( either military or economic ) to the US. But if the secrets were revealed, there might be an 'Andean Union' of Peru, Bolivia, Venezuela, perhaps Ecuador, who form their own joint defense program. We've been fucking over South America for better than 50 years now. Combine that with the resurgence of Indigenous identity, it means no more cheap food from South America for us anymore.
Your post reminds me of a party I went to once with Chinese grad students in America. We played a Chinese version of 'murderer'. In the US, there is one murderer who kills by winking at a person. The non-murderers try to guess who the murderer is. If they guess correctly, the game ends; if they guess incorrectly, they die. (There is a ref who chooses the murderer and arbitrates accusations). Ultimately the goal is justice. The ref simply says "You guessed the murderer", or "You have falsely accused the innocent. You're dead."
However, in the Chinese version, the accused simply defends themselves verbally "I can't be the murderer! I was looking at you when Stacy was killed!". It's a game of treachery, and you use your wits to stay alive. I don't recall all of the details, but to me, is was markedly different from the American version. A lot depended on how well you could defend yourself.
OK, maybe he's good at murdering and hiding bodies. Let's see how good he is at getting away with it ;)
I'll bet that he's so smart with computers that he thinks he's good at everything ( perhaps even murdering people ). He might think that he can get what he wants out of the jury by using a simple command or technicality, just like a computer hard drive. But most neurotypicals judge people on some kind of gut feeling or likability, not any technical matters like truth, justice, or evidence.
Don't get me wrong, there are 'people geeks' who employ simple tricks to get what they want out of people. But Hans does not come off as a sophisticated charmer. Any clever stunts he tries to pull with this jury will go down in flames.
If the sun will *appear* to be in the sky tomorrow, it can also *appear* to rise.
Here's one in Finnish:
Farmer: Kokoo kokoon koko kokko!
Farmhand: Koko kokkoko?
Farmer: Koko kokko.
Gather up a whole bonfire!
A whole bonfire?
A whole bonfire.
Try using the Mayan calendar. It's a circle, so you can keep using it on and on into the future. A big rollover is coming in 2012! Every 25,920 years, the sun completes is journey around the sky ( known as the Precession of the Equinoxes in the west ) and returns to the dark center of the Milky Way to be reborn.
The ability to charge for a music recording was a 100 year bubble that was created by technology. Before that, musicians made a living by playing gigs. But face the facts -- most of the time, there weren't professional musicians. In the middle ages, composers and musicians were sponsored by the royalty. Music, and the arts in general, has always been a side gig. Full-time professionals have been sponsored by governments. Even most bands with a contract don't actually make a *living* from the album sales -- that all goes to the record companies. The band makes money from playing live gigs.
You're saying that copyright allows creation to happen? Bullshit. Artist make are because they are driven to. They create regardless of their economic circumstances. All of the artists I know have day jobs, and create in their free-time, or live in near poverty, and create full-time. All that copyright has done has allows industries, such as the studios and the recording companies to pop up. Think about it -- people have been writing songs for thousands of years. Most songs that are played are covers of someone else's song, or a song that has been passed down through the ages. Copyright has only been around, what? 400 years? It's elimination won't have any impact whatsoever on song creation.
You really can't feed yourself by playing music or painting. You have to go out and work in the field or the office. The arts are what you do in your spare time, when you are done with work.
If you have one sickle cell allele, your red blood cells are slight misshapen, and the malaria plasmodia can't inhabit them. But other than that, you are totally normal -- no anemia.
However, if you have two sickle-cell alleles, then your red blood cells are deformed to the point where you can't get enough oxygen around in your system. You are still malaria-resistant, but you are also anemic.
So if you live an a malaria-endemic area, it's best to have one sickle-cell allele, over none or both. No malaria, no anemia. If you have both, you have anemia, if you have none, you get malaria. If evolution was still allowed to take it's proper course, people who were born with congenital heart defects and brain defects would all die at a very early age. That's true, but the carriers of recessive alleles would continue to pass on their genes, and some of those traits might have benefits for selection. Some of those children would inherit recessive defects, but others would only get one allele, perhaps to some benefit.
So, under non-human-influenced evolution, it's not like all of these traits are ruthlessly rooted out.
This phenomenon is well-known in the comedy world. If they can afford it, a comedian will oftentimes have a warmer in the crowd, who just laughs at the appropriate moments. I heard a Charlie Murphy interview where he talks about doing this for Eddie when he was starting out.
Well, if you are talking about voting records, you would have to admit that Ron Paul's is at least as impressive as Kuciniches'. He's no political opportunist.
If you think that Ron Paul is another Republican Neocon or fascist, you are sadly misinformed. Your guy Kucinich even said he would have Ron Paul as a running mate!
I've talked to several liberal democrats who are crossing over to support and vote for Ron Paul, while I've never heard of a conservative republican who would cross over to vote for Kucinich. Who has a better chance of winning?
Anthropologist Wade Davis was the one to crack the secret of the Hatian voo-doo zombie recipe here in North America. Turns out it was puffer-fish poison. He had to join secret societies to learn the secret. His book, "The Serpent and the Rainbow", details this struggle. The movie is crap, though.
Hey, were Douglas Adams and David Icke pals, by chance?
Or, are you talking about the fact that there are multiple waves in the ocean, each with their own distance measure in the same moment of time? If that's the case, then what is this single "termination shock" that Voyager is passing? Isn't that equivalent to the furthest wave, or outermost reach of solar wind, which has a single distance value in a moment of time?
Why isn't the article talking about Voyager passing "termination shocks", one for each solar wind-front (or, each wave-swell in the ocean)? Isn't it talking about the final termination shock, at the end of solar wind emanations from the sun?
Or can the furthest wave have two distances at one time?
Then it occurred to me that very few things we saw were geometric objects, or composed of geometric primitives. It's really only until you start living in cities and dealing with manufacturing goods that you start to encounter geometric objects.
If you buy the theory that modern human beings evolved on the savannahs of Africa some 100,000 years ago, the only geometric objects they would have seen were the sun and the moon. Instead, imagine this scene: A field of short grasses is split by a meandering stream. On the other bank, shrubs conceal the trails of various grazing animals. Beyond that the treeline begins, a wall of various deciduous species. Above that, various cloud formations obscure the blue sky. No, if you're a savy hunter gather, you need to read that landscape, and there aren't any geometric objects anywhere. You need to see animal tracks and trails in the grassland. See how deep and how fast the water is moving from looking at the surface. Find predators lurking in the shrubs. Identify various plant species for food, materials, and medicines. Read the clouds above to foretell the weather.
I don't know how you would accomplish any of those tasks using classical geometry or the Pythagorean theorem -- there aren't any triangle. Perhaps using fluid dynamics modeling to analyze the stream and the clouds, and maybe fractal geometry to analyze the plants. I don't know, but I think we're a long way from the answer.
Do the solar winds continue on forever, to the point where the first light from the sun now reaches out into the universe? Or is there a final outer boundary of solar winds, and wouldn't it therefore have a single 3-D distance value in time? The article doesn't seem to imply that Voyager is encountering various termination shocks from overlapping solar winds; it seems to say it's going outside of *all* solar winds.
It's like saying that a car's speed varies in both velocity and time -- in other words, at one moment it might be going 40 MPH and at another 60 MPH. But we know that at no single moment in time will it be going both 40 and 60 MPH. As human beings, we don't expect phenomena like this to have two values at the same time, so saying that it varies in both velocity and time ( or distance and time ) is redundant. Simply saying that "it varies" implies, in common language, that it varies throughout time: that it only have a single value per unit of time. Every day phenomena don't vary in a single instance of time.
Now I know that the universe is a strange place where phenomena exist that defy our intuitive physics, but I think this one is rather obvious. The phenomenon is simple, and the terminator varies only in distance. The fact that is also varies in time is implicit in saying that it varies in distance -- we don't consider the possibility that it has multiple distance values in a single moment of time.
I guess the only person who might need this explained to them is perhaps a scientist who is used to dealing with quantum phenomena on a daily basis, and may not be making the same assumptions as other people
Yeah, this is a problem I've long considered...
In other words, crypto works -- but the problem is getting human beings to do proper crypto.