Actually, its the other way around; the reason that the Kuomintang never wanted to declare 'independence' from China was because they view themselves as *being* the legitimate government of China.
In effect, the Taiwanese line would come out something like:
From the article:'One program would place intellectual property experts on the ground in regions where infringement is considered a concern. There they would work with overseas U.S. businesses and native government officials to advocate improved intellectual-property rights protection
*native* government officials?
Lord Blimey, we can't have those nig-nogs and fuzzy-wuzzies running about without proper supervision! They might *violate* our intellectual property!
Send the colonial administrators in to pick out a few of the more obedient and docile wogs and turn them into loyal colonial servants.
(and if you can't spot the sarcasm in that, you'd better bloody well mod me down, hadn't you?)
Something about blogging as therapy? Theres a fine distinction here, political dissidency often (or is it just sometimes?) being a symptom of neurotic personalities in need of some therapy.
"Trivial example, if you want to borrow money from a bank, then the bank would have good reason to query your PODS for information about your financial history."
Actually, you could almost do this with iPods; your bank manager might be able to extrapolate your financial 'personality' based on music collection on your iPod
If GMC start changing the cars behavior through this system, removing features or, lets say adding a a feature, say a limiter on the engine through this 'service', that would be an analogy to the Tivo.
"MythTV is like a lifelong friend. It may not be as soft and curvy, and it might not flirt with you. But it won't wake up one morning and start deleting your belongings either."
Like in that song by the Skatellites:
"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life, never make a pretty woman your wife. So from my personal point of view, get an ugly girl to marry you!"
"Hey man, I saw your wife the other day!" "uh huh?" "Man, is she *ugly*!" "Yeah shes ugly but she sure can cook!"
"So most games will turn their enemies into robots."
Interesting, like the 'Samurai Jack' cartoon series where the only thing that ever gets cut up are robots. Pretty sad really. Akira Kurosawa would not be amused.
Heck, you'd think christians would be *grateful* to the Romans, otherwise they wouldn't get to use the crucifix as a 'holy symbol'.
If the Jews had had their way, what? Christians would be wearing little rocks covered in blood around their necks? Cos they'd have stoned him to death...
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health, and making ice without electricity, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
They arranged for the disposal of that inconvenient rebel known as 'The Christ'?
Well *obviously* the 'god' of the bible, torah/talmud and koran is actually the 'deceiver' that 'he' keeps warning people about... I always thought that lie was easily detectable from the content of the old testament, for example.
Second book of Kings, chapter two? Of course, in the King James version they somehow manage to use the word 'tare' instead of 'killed' when 'god' sends the she-bears to punish 42 children for offending a prophet ('go up thou, bald-head!' yeah thats an offense worthy of death. 'Loving, fatherly god' *not*).
So far as I can tell, the people of the 'abrahamistic' faiths have basically been sucked in by some vast and evil intellect. The word 'sucker' comes to mind.
" Throughout various places in the Andes, indigenous people make a sort of 'drink' called chicha."
ahhh I've always wanted to try chicha. Theres also the pulque from Mexico that sounds interesting, again often a bit lumpy from what I hear, and very nutritious.
One that I really want to try is the fermented mares milk from Mongolia. I have a feeling that its somehow connected to the whey alcohol thats in many commercially produced spirits.
"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."
Plantain isn't manioc (which is a root vegetable), its a kind of banana. Well, banana family. Never brewed with it but its not bad sliced and fried, like potato chips.
"Traditionally it fermentation was started by women chewing the plant material and spitting it into a big tub"
The chewing and spitting is very interesting because thats how kava-kava was traditionaly prepared in the Pacific islands (not alcoholic though, just paralytic:).
Who thought we'd be discussing something akin to anthropology here on slashdot. Wonders never cease!
"Unfortunately nothing short of a high powered bullet through the cranium seems likely to remove him from power, no matter how much he and his appointed cronies fuck things up."
Be careful; you don't want him to become a martyr now, do you?
Cool, thats what I was wondering because it sounded as if methane would support that sort of thing, the parent poster mentioned about its polarity property.
Not that I *really* understand this sort of thing; I'm a comp sci major who also sat a few cell biology/genetics papers!
The thing is that its a terrible hubris for the current generation to assume that it knows what will be a selection pressure on future generations.
The amazing thing that the human race is achieving is being able to keep people alive and reproductive whose genes would mean certain death.
Now, on the one hand, the;survivalist' in me find s this terrifying; future generations may be beset with even worse health than we have today and be totally dependent on tech to stay alive.
On the other hand, the evolutionist in me finds this fantastic for the reasons outlined previously; expanding search space.
There was an episode of 'Andromeda' where they meet the genetic reincarnation of a character from the distant past. He was a Nietzchian, a race of genetic uber-men. No genetic flaws in the race. Which meant that the chances of genetic reincarnations occuring was enormously higher than in the normal human population.
Interesting line of thought if you follow that along a little way.
"Political parties have distorted the electoral systems to their own ends, so now most of the countries which were once democratic have become two-party oligarchies"
Thats broadly true, but even in New Zealand where we have a decidedly non-duopolistic MMP system, the elections *still* come out too close to call and it can take months to form a government from the post-election mess.
Really, I only used the '51%' as a symbol to represent the fact that there needs to be a certain proportion of voters to achieve change in 'democracies' (or rather 'mediacracies')
Ok you are technically mostly correct in your post, however you seem to overlook one thing.
In order to affect change via democracy at least 51% of the population must be intelligent enough to vote so as to actually affect that change.
My experience of my fellow human beings does *not* support this as a realistic possibility.
Most people, well over the 51% they require, are sufficiently docile, sheeplike suckers that they actually believe the advertising in the media which very effectively instructs them on how to spend their vote-money.
If the 'collective media' wanted to direct the vote one way or another, they could.
What we see happening, however, is increasing numbers of elections being almost dead heats. The elected governments look increasingly weak. Weak government helps oh lets see now, corporations?
As things stand, voting by intelligent people who actually think about the issues is so ineffectual that there have to be better ways to affect change in the system.
Slashdot Mirror
It's not a province
Actually, its the other way around; the reason that the Kuomintang never wanted to declare 'independence' from China was because they view themselves as *being* the legitimate government of China.
In effect, the Taiwanese line would come out something like:
'All of Chinas provinces are belong to us'.
I'm still not satisfied - I'm looking into Streamload.com as a cheap Internet backup
Right, so as in the example in TFA, you'd be leaving what in the attic?
A URL printed on, of course, acid-free paper?
Nice try...
From the article:'One program would place intellectual property experts on the ground in regions where infringement is considered a concern. There they would work with overseas U.S. businesses and native government officials to advocate improved intellectual-property rights protection
*native* government officials?
Lord Blimey, we can't have those nig-nogs and fuzzy-wuzzies running about without proper supervision! They might *violate* our intellectual property!
Send the colonial administrators in to pick out a few of the more obedient and docile wogs and turn them into loyal colonial servants.
(and if you can't spot the sarcasm in that, you'd better bloody well mod me down, hadn't you?)
Indeed, this article is almost a dupe:
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/09/22/16222
Something about blogging as therapy? Theres a fine distinction here, political dissidency often (or is it just sometimes?) being a symptom of neurotic personalities in need of some therapy.
Yes, and I may have had sex with a woman.
Consensual sex. Without money involved.
Indeed, you could steganographically hide your PODS data in the music collection on the iPod.
Of course, the very titles of the tracks could be used to hide data as well.
And of course people can, and will, draw their own conclusions on a person based on their musical taste (or lack of).
"Trivial example, if you want to borrow money from a bank, then the bank would have good reason to query your PODS for information about your financial history."
Actually, you could almost do this with iPods; your bank manager might be able to extrapolate your financial 'personality' based on music collection on your iPod
"The car analogy is COMPLETELY wrong. COMPLETELY"
Reminds me of that article the other day...
"GMC to Begin Remotely Scanning Cars for Trouble"
If GMC start changing the cars behavior through this system, removing features or, lets say adding a a feature, say a limiter on the engine through this 'service', that would be an analogy to the Tivo.
"MythTV is like a lifelong friend. It may not be as soft and curvy, and it might not flirt with you. But it won't wake up one morning and start deleting your belongings either."
Like in that song by the Skatellites:
"If you wanna be happy for the rest of your life,
never make a pretty woman your wife.
So from my personal point of view,
get an ugly girl to marry you!"
"Hey man, I saw your wife the other day!"
"uh huh?"
"Man, is she *ugly*!"
"Yeah shes ugly but she sure can cook!"
"So most games will turn their enemies into robots."
Interesting, like the 'Samurai Jack' cartoon series where the only thing that ever gets cut up are robots. Pretty sad really. Akira Kurosawa would not be amused.
The Athens Olympics? Oh... wait...
Thats why I said 'arranged for'.
Heck, you'd think christians would be *grateful* to the Romans, otherwise they wouldn't get to use the crucifix as a 'holy symbol'.
If the Jews had had their way, what? Christians would be wearing little rocks covered in blood around their necks? Cos they'd have stoned him to death...
"All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, public health, and making ice without electricity, what have the Romans ever done for us?"
They arranged for the disposal of that inconvenient rebel known as 'The Christ'?
Well *obviously* the 'god' of the bible, torah/talmud and koran is actually the 'deceiver' that 'he' keeps warning people about... I always thought that lie was easily detectable from the content of the old testament, for example.
Second book of Kings, chapter two? Of course, in the King James version they somehow manage to use the word 'tare' instead of 'killed' when 'god' sends the she-bears to punish 42 children for offending a prophet ('go up thou, bald-head!' yeah thats an offense worthy of death. 'Loving, fatherly god' *not*).
So far as I can tell, the people of the 'abrahamistic' faiths have basically been sucked in by some vast and evil intellect. The word 'sucker' comes to mind.
Yeah, yeah troll, flame-bait *whatever*.
You want to find out whats out there? ping and see what happens.
It applies to investment and r & d.
Theres probably little risk in this rokr gadget.
Just a ping. See what happens, see what reflects back.
Its a risk they can afford to take and the intel you get from watching carefuly what happens now is priceless.
" Throughout various places in the Andes, indigenous people make a sort of 'drink' called chicha."
:).
:)
ahhh I've always wanted to try chicha. Theres also the pulque from Mexico that sounds interesting, again often a bit lumpy from what I hear, and very nutritious.
One that I really want to try is the fermented mares milk from Mongolia. I have a feeling that its somehow connected to the whey alcohol thats in many commercially produced spirits.
"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."
Plantain isn't manioc (which is a root vegetable), its a kind of banana. Well, banana family. Never brewed with it but its not bad sliced and fried, like potato chips.
"Traditionally it fermentation was started by women chewing the plant material and spitting it into a big tub"
The chewing and spitting is very interesting because thats how kava-kava was traditionaly prepared in the Pacific islands (not alcoholic though, just paralytic
Who thought we'd be discussing something akin to anthropology here on slashdot. Wonders never cease!
The lack of effective filtration makes the end product a lot more nutritious which, in pre-modern times was a definite advantage.
And traditional Cornish scrumpy most certainly is a little cloudy with bits floating around in it.
Remember, this is not your regular home brew we are talking about here.
Same goes for sake; the old style sake was very definitely cloudy and its flavor substantialy improved by heating. Modern sake is often served cold.
Those old beer and wine recipes are quite different from their modern counterparts.
:)
The main differences would probably be the lack of effective filtration and the yeasts.
The filtration is probably the biggest difference.
We are used to beer and wine being relatively clear; in ye olde days the beers and wines were rather murky.
This has the interesting side effect that modern beers and wines are substantially less nutritious than their ancient counterparts.
The Egyptian beer (which built the pyramids) has been described as 'mildly alcoholic, liquid bread'
I've tried making wines and beers like these, they have a much lower alcohol content and are far more tasty.
People also tend to turn their noses up at them cos they look cloudy and have bits floating around. More for me! Yum!
And ahhh genuine Cornish scrumpy cider... even though I know they throw a dead rabbit into the vat, it still tastes good!
"Unfortunately nothing short of a high powered bullet through the cranium seems likely to remove him from power, no matter how much he and his appointed cronies fuck things up."
Be careful; you don't want him to become a martyr now, do you?
Cool, thats what I was wondering because it sounded as if methane would support that sort of thing, the parent poster mentioned about its polarity property.
Not that I *really* understand this sort of thing; I'm a comp sci major who also sat a few cell biology/genetics papers!
amazingly its now -1 troll!
I really should have put the old "yeah, yeah troll, flamebait *whatever*" onto it then it'd have gotten +5 funny or something...
sickle cell anemia, great example!
;survivalist' in me find s this terrifying; future generations may be beset with even worse health than we have today and be totally dependent on tech to stay alive.
The thing is that its a terrible hubris for the current generation to assume that it knows what will be a selection pressure on future generations.
The amazing thing that the human race is achieving is being able to keep people alive and reproductive whose genes would mean certain death.
Now, on the one hand, the
On the other hand, the evolutionist in me finds this fantastic for the reasons outlined previously; expanding search space.
There was an episode of 'Andromeda' where they meet the genetic reincarnation of a character from the distant past. He was a Nietzchian, a race of genetic uber-men. No genetic flaws in the race. Which meant that the chances of genetic reincarnations occuring was enormously higher than in the normal human population.
Interesting line of thought if you follow that along a little way.
"Political parties have distorted the electoral systems to their own ends, so now most of the countries which were once democratic have become two-party oligarchies"
Thats broadly true, but even in New Zealand where we have a decidedly non-duopolistic MMP system, the elections *still* come out too close to call and it can take months to form a government from the post-election mess.
Really, I only used the '51%' as a symbol to represent the fact that there needs to be a certain proportion of voters to achieve change in 'democracies' (or rather 'mediacracies')
Then theres the lipid bi-layer that forms the cell membrane.
Is there any analog of a lipid in methane? One which can form a bi-layer bubble?
Ok you are technically mostly correct in your post, however you seem to overlook one thing.
In order to affect change via democracy at least 51% of the population must be intelligent enough to vote so as to actually affect that change.
My experience of my fellow human beings does *not* support this as a realistic possibility.
Most people, well over the 51% they require, are sufficiently docile, sheeplike suckers that they actually believe the advertising in the media which very effectively instructs them on how to spend their vote-money.
If the 'collective media' wanted to direct the vote one way or another, they could.
What we see happening, however, is increasing numbers of elections being almost dead heats. The elected governments look increasingly weak. Weak government helps oh lets see now, corporations?
As things stand, voting by intelligent people who actually think about the issues is so ineffectual that there have to be better ways to affect change in the system.