What really gets erudites upset is this business of presenting myths as facts.
Internet-style atheism has this unfortunate habit of going on to argue that any religion which presents myths as myths isn't really religion.
For a person who acknowledges their myths as myths (eg Pastafarian) they can be called out as 'not really believing in it' because its acknowledged to be myth. If you don't really believe in something how can you 'know' it, how can you really be religious about something that you don't 'know'. Religions are all based on this 'faith' thing which seems to me to be about 'knowing' something to be true.
So without the acknowledgement that your religious story is truth how can it be (your) religion? But insisting that some myth is true leads down other blind alleys...
Wrote a coherent response about the scientific method. NOT.
The burden of proof and coherent scientific response should surely be on the shoulders of the proponents of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, String Theory and merely pointing out that there doesn't seem to be any such evidence is coherent enough in my view.
LGW, we don't agree on much, but we agree on this. Some of the best people I've known in life have been believers, and by "best", I mean, really walked the best meaning of their faith. I'm talking about Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews. The whole lot. People whose first response to others was, "What can I do to help?"
I once heard a Jewish person talking about their religion and they told a funny story.
A guy goes to his Rabbi and says "I know I'm supposed to be a good person and kind to everyone but theres this one group of people I really hate." Rabbi says "What group of people have got you so worked up?" Guy says "Atheists. They are just totally wrong and just get me so angry, I hate them." Rabbi says "You know, theres a time when its very important to be an atheist." Guy is confused "How could there be a time when its important to be an atheist? That doesn't make any sense!" Rabbi says "When you see some unfortunate person who needs your help, thats when you should be an atheist. Because you should help that person, not because God is standing over you telling you to but because its the right thing to do!"
When a very religious person is kind it shouldn't be because of their religion, that would be a dishonest form of kindness. Just doing it because its dictated to them that they should. Being kind out of personal choice or because its 'right' not because of fear of the consequences of not doing what their God tells them to.
And yeah there are very religious people who are just good hearted and yeah in many cases its the introspection that they get from their religion that reveals this to them, not the prescriptions of their faith.
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious.
That's not a contradiction, you know? Some recipes are, well, quite bad.
You might be able to compare religions as to whether they are recipes or whether they are methods. For example, chilli isn't a recipe, its a method. There are millions of chilli recipes but the method is consistent and fairly distinctive in world cuisine. Similarly with bread.
Recipes prescribe just how much of an ingredient is used and exactly which ingredients are used; methods are just ways of working with food.
Some religions are like recipes, some religions are like methods. I get the impression that Sikhism is like a method; theres no conversion to Sikhism. If you live like a Sikh you are a Sikh. Or Shamanism which has millions of variants around the world but underlying themes that tie them together. From Siberian shamanism to Native American to Shinto.
The Judaeo-Christian religions (includes Islam) are more like a collection of recipes with strict initiation rituals and prescriptions etc.
And Buddhism... maybe more like a diet than a recipe or method.
Thats funny, last night I had a dream where I said to someone "Do as thou Will shall be the whole of the Law" and they kind of frowned and I said "Love is the Law, love under Will." and they were like "Oh ok then thats alright."
It's pretty commonplace for infant kids to run around naked on the beach in Europe for example. My niece is 4, and when I'm iChatting my parents over in the UK, it's pretty common to see her wandering round the house naked (lunchtime here being bath time in the UK). I don't see why photos are any different. Nudity just isn't such a big deal when the kid is so young they're still "innocent", at least for most Europeans. As far as I'm aware it's the same in Asia. It's mainly the US that's so puritanical over the human body.
And (presumably) the photos aren't sexual in nature. If someone was jacking off to them, the fault lies with that person, not with the photo.
I believe, though I don't have the time to google for it right now, that people in the UK have got in trouble for beach photos with kids in various states of undress. Being British I can totally believe that its true...
Rules tend to be different when it's non sexualized photos of an infant. That's likely the case here.
Depending where you are, whether the photos are 'sexualised' depends entirely on the viewer... if someone were to jack off over them they're sexualised and therefore child porn!
Precisely!!! And what sort of parent puts nude pics of their kids online? Usually, one would think it's the parents who are right, but in this case, the parents, or at least the dad, is a perv
You don't need DNS to visit a website. Also, there's nothing preventing you from running your own DNS.
Hmm intriguing idea. I guess you could run your own DNS root server and maintain your own records for everything on all zones on the Internet. Its going to take some bandwidth to keep all that updated!
But if you are thinking of just running your own local DNS server then its going to need forwarders and those forwarders are going to either be within the firewall and thus limited or outside the firewall and inaccessible.
Or you could use an alternative port on a DNS forwarder outside the firewall. Some DNS servers run on 5353 but you could run it on whatever port you wanted. Until they start doing deep packet inspection and block your non-standard port DNS traffic because its obvious DNS traffic.
I don't see any indications of an SSL-wrapped DNS protocol..?
You might stay alive if you continue to lay off the high-fat food. If you read the summary you will see that fat and cholesterol were implicated in heart disease, but that sucrose was ALSO implicated. I wonder if the more recent research is now being funded by the dairy and cattle industries? Low fat is still good for your arteries, just don't compensate with a pound of sugar. Incidentally, lazy chefs who say 'no fat no flavour' aren't helping you stay alive either.
Fat people taste better than lean people. Thats why the aliens have been encouraging this, carrying around books on 'how to serve man'.
I remember a decade and a half ago there were scandals where false Global Warming data had been spread around. It took me a long time to trust future evidence because I saw it as a partisan battle, rather than legitimate science. This sort of thing is always bad for everyone involved. Obviously they had 50 years of good profits, so they may disagree. My point is simply that any level of deceit in science can totally scare people away from a subject entirely, and even oppose the idea in the future, whether valid or not.
'Global warming' is a straw man. Phrasing it as 'climate change' is more correct and better supported by the facts.
In fact, arguably 'global warming' was a term deliberately created to make people disbelieve in climate change.
"We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line."
To a small degree. Our teeth only have 4 canines, which are the teeth for tearing meat. Our digestive tracts are much longer than pretty much any other carnivore, even carnivores larger than us have drastically shorter digestive tracts, which means that we're more geared towards vegetation with some allocation for meat for our dietary requirements.
Even pandas eat meat. They will eat carcasses they find in the wild.
I hear your argument, but coding is what the military calls a force multiplier. Coding gives you the ability to teach machines to do the work for you. On their own. This is something none of the other skills do. That gives someone who can think like that a major, major leg up in life.
Coding as I knew it at school and college is nothing like coding today and I don't feel that anything I did back then is helpful today (binary on punchcards). Who is to say that coding as you know it today will be helpful by the time the kids leave school? Or even be remotely helpful in any way. Tech marches on.
In the terms of your argument, leadership skills are a force multiplier, they give you the ability to get other people to do the work for you. This gives someone who can think like that a major leg up in life. And leadership skills from 50 years ago are pretty much relevant today. Lets have all kids leave school as potential leaders.
Here in America, the superior country, we would NEVER have the government censor the internet of opinions we don't like. Instead, we simply have our good buddies/donors Facebook and Twitter do it for us.
Check out voter registration... If you are in a majority Hispanic or Black area you may find that you have to go to some lengths and travel some distance to get a drivers licence renewed.
I always appreciate when a good study establishes something that you assumed is the case. This also means that people who disagree with the idea of disenfranchisement now have evidence that it is a very real force in the world.
What I assume is the case, having worked with it, is that the GeoIP database is hopelessly inaccurate and can only be used in a very coarse-grained way with lots of fudging. For example, in Brazil the GeoIP databases usually omit details of city or region and all you have is 'somewhere in Brazil'.
This were how learning occurrs. Sigh. The tech sector just will never get it. Computational thinking is actually the *problem* we are currently having, it is absolutely the wrong way to teach. I would put the energy and money into tech literacy, instead. It is astonishing to me how people like this miss the mark again, and again, and again. We are already starting to reap what we've sown with a generation that is incapable of critical and abstract thinking. We are not robots, and life is not an algorithm. Disappointing.
substitute 'computational thinking' with 'poetic thinking' and see how much sense it makes. The whole idea of 'making sure every kid leaves school able to code' makes as much sense as 'making sure every kid leaves school able to write poetry'.
Sure, put kids in contact with coding, along with wood work, metal working, cooking, etc. Let the kids find out for themselves which they enjoy and which interests them and then give them opportunities to take them further.
But don't force kids to all leave school with a bunch of compulsory vocations.
you want to keep edward snowden from boarding his flight. you plug in on the complimentary power recepticle, 30 secs later, the airport terminal is down,
You think smoking a complimentary USB charging port is going to shut down an airport terminal? You're on drugs.
Oh, but if you put it into the charging port on the airplane and smoke the seatback display! That will surely disable the aircraft, right? Sorry, that aircraft will be fine, it will just have another non-working seatback display that will eventually get replaced.
Smoke in the cabin. Smell of electrical fire. What do you think the airline is going to do?
USB and most other ports already have some ESD/current protection. Without knowing the details of the device hard to say if current standards are enough protection. Someone else pointed out that a bad actor could just as easily hit the device with a hammer if they want to break it, so hard to say if anyone will really need to do anything about it.
Surreptitiously hitting something with a hammer is a lot harder than sneaking something onto a USB port.
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Define love. Be detailed and specific.
Then please recognize that sound-bite philosophy or religion are just as ridiculous as any other sound-bite.
Thelema is neither religion nor philosophy.
It has the aim of religion, but that doesn't make it a religion. It has the method of science, but that doesn't make it science.
What really gets erudites upset is this business of presenting myths as facts.
Internet-style atheism has this unfortunate habit of going on to argue that any religion which presents myths as myths isn't really religion.
For a person who acknowledges their myths as myths (eg Pastafarian) they can be called out as 'not really believing in it' because its acknowledged to be myth. If you don't really believe in something how can you 'know' it, how can you really be religious about something that you don't 'know'. Religions are all based on this 'faith' thing which seems to me to be about 'knowing' something to be true.
So without the acknowledgement that your religious story is truth how can it be (your) religion?
But insisting that some myth is true leads down other blind alleys...
It seems somewhat hopeless!
Wrote a coherent response about the scientific method. NOT.
The burden of proof and coherent scientific response should surely be on the shoulders of the proponents of Dark Matter, Dark Energy, String Theory and merely pointing out that there doesn't seem to be any such evidence is coherent enough in my view.
LGW, we don't agree on much, but we agree on this. Some of the best people I've known in life have been believers, and by "best", I mean, really walked the best meaning of their faith. I'm talking about Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Jews. The whole lot. People whose first response to others was, "What can I do to help?"
I once heard a Jewish person talking about their religion and they told a funny story.
A guy goes to his Rabbi and says "I know I'm supposed to be a good person and kind to everyone but theres this one group of people I really hate."
Rabbi says "What group of people have got you so worked up?"
Guy says "Atheists. They are just totally wrong and just get me so angry, I hate them."
Rabbi says "You know, theres a time when its very important to be an atheist."
Guy is confused "How could there be a time when its important to be an atheist? That doesn't make any sense!"
Rabbi says "When you see some unfortunate person who needs your help, thats when you should be an atheist. Because you should help that person, not because God is standing over you telling you to but because its the right thing to do!"
When a very religious person is kind it shouldn't be because of their religion, that would be a dishonest form of kindness. Just doing it because its dictated to them that they should. Being kind out of personal choice or because its 'right' not because of fear of the consequences of not doing what their God tells them to.
And yeah there are very religious people who are just good hearted and yeah in many cases its the introspection that they get from their religion that reveals this to them, not the prescriptions of their faith.
"religions are recipes for life"
The worst people I have ever met in my life are religious.
That's not a contradiction, you know? Some recipes are, well, quite bad.
You might be able to compare religions as to whether they are recipes or whether they are methods. For example, chilli isn't a recipe, its a method. There are millions of chilli recipes but the method is consistent and fairly distinctive in world cuisine. Similarly with bread.
Recipes prescribe just how much of an ingredient is used and exactly which ingredients are used; methods are just ways of working with food.
Some religions are like recipes, some religions are like methods. I get the impression that Sikhism is like a method; theres no conversion to Sikhism. If you live like a Sikh you are a Sikh. Or Shamanism which has millions of variants around the world but underlying themes that tie them together. From Siberian shamanism to Native American to Shinto.
The Judaeo-Christian religions (includes Islam) are more like a collection of recipes with strict initiation rituals and prescriptions etc.
And Buddhism... maybe more like a diet than a recipe or method.
Is the future of mankind.
Thats funny, last night I had a dream where I said to someone "Do as thou Will shall be the whole of the Law" and they kind of frowned and I said "Love is the Law, love under Will." and they were like "Oh ok then thats alright."
Maybe in the US.
It's pretty commonplace for infant kids to run around naked on the beach in Europe for example. My niece is 4, and when I'm iChatting my parents over in the UK, it's pretty common to see her wandering round the house naked (lunchtime here being bath time in the UK). I don't see why photos are any different. Nudity just isn't such a big deal when the kid is so young they're still "innocent", at least for most Europeans. As far as I'm aware it's the same in Asia. It's mainly the US that's so puritanical over the human body.
And (presumably) the photos aren't sexual in nature. If someone was jacking off to them, the fault lies with that person, not with the photo.
I believe, though I don't have the time to google for it right now, that people in the UK have got in trouble for beach photos with kids in various states of undress. Being British I can totally believe that its true...
Rules tend to be different when it's non sexualized photos of an infant. That's likely the case here.
Depending where you are, whether the photos are 'sexualised' depends entirely on the viewer... if someone were to jack off over them they're sexualised and therefore child porn!
Precisely!!! And what sort of parent puts nude pics of their kids online? Usually, one would think it's the parents who are right, but in this case, the parents, or at least the dad, is a perv
If it were the UK they'd be sex offenders.
You don't need DNS to visit a website. Also, there's nothing preventing you from running your own DNS.
Hmm intriguing idea. I guess you could run your own DNS root server and maintain your own records for everything on all zones on the Internet. Its going to take some bandwidth to keep all that updated!
But if you are thinking of just running your own local DNS server then its going to need forwarders and those forwarders are going to either be within the firewall and thus limited or outside the firewall and inaccessible.
Or you could use an alternative port on a DNS forwarder outside the firewall. Some DNS servers run on 5353 but you could run it on whatever port you wanted. Until they start doing deep packet inspection and block your non-standard port DNS traffic because its obvious DNS traffic.
I don't see any indications of an SSL-wrapped DNS protocol..?
British PMs are never elected, their party is.
I think the PM still has to win their seat. Has a PM ever served where their party won FPTP but they didn't win their seat?
You might stay alive if you continue to lay off the high-fat food. If you read the summary you will see that fat and cholesterol were implicated in heart disease, but that sucrose was ALSO implicated. I wonder if the more recent research is now being funded by the dairy and cattle industries? Low fat is still good for your arteries, just don't compensate with a pound of sugar. Incidentally, lazy chefs who say 'no fat no flavour' aren't helping you stay alive either.
Fat people taste better than lean people. Thats why the aliens have been encouraging this, carrying around books on 'how to serve man'.
I remember a decade and a half ago there were scandals where false Global Warming data had been spread around. It took me a long time to trust future evidence because I saw it as a partisan battle, rather than legitimate science. This sort of thing is always bad for everyone involved. Obviously they had 50 years of good profits, so they may disagree. My point is simply that any level of deceit in science can totally scare people away from a subject entirely, and even oppose the idea in the future, whether valid or not.
'Global warming' is a straw man. Phrasing it as 'climate change' is more correct and better supported by the facts.
In fact, arguably 'global warming' was a term deliberately created to make people disbelieve in climate change.
"We were made to eat meat, that is the bottom line."
To a small degree. Our teeth only have 4 canines, which are the teeth for tearing meat. Our digestive tracts are much longer than pretty much any other carnivore, even carnivores larger than us have drastically shorter digestive tracts, which means that we're more geared towards vegetation with some allocation for meat for our dietary requirements.
Even pandas eat meat. They will eat carcasses they find in the wild.
I hear your argument, but coding is what the military calls a force multiplier. Coding gives you the ability to teach machines to do the work for you. On their own. This is something none of the other skills do. That gives someone who can think like that a major, major leg up in life.
Coding as I knew it at school and college is nothing like coding today and I don't feel that anything I did back then is helpful today (binary on punchcards). Who is to say that coding as you know it today will be helpful by the time the kids leave school? Or even be remotely helpful in any way. Tech marches on.
In the terms of your argument, leadership skills are a force multiplier, they give you the ability to get other people to do the work for you. This gives someone who can think like that a major leg up in life. And leadership skills from 50 years ago are pretty much relevant today. Lets have all kids leave school as potential leaders.
Can we turn this against SJWs? Having people like Anita Sarkeesian blocked from accessing the Internet would amazing?
Find a way to get them registered as a sex offender?
You are a fucking white male! Your opinion is invalid.
Your rights end where my feelings begin!
Here in America, the superior country, we would NEVER have the government censor the internet of opinions we don't like. Instead, we simply have our good buddies/donors Facebook and Twitter do it for us.
Check out voter registration... If you are in a majority Hispanic or Black area you may find that you have to go to some lengths and travel some distance to get a drivers licence renewed.
I always appreciate when a good study establishes something that you assumed is the case. This also means that people who disagree with the idea of disenfranchisement now have evidence that it is a very real force in the world.
What I assume is the case, having worked with it, is that the GeoIP database is hopelessly inaccurate and can only be used in a very coarse-grained way with lots of fudging. For example, in Brazil the GeoIP databases usually omit details of city or region and all you have is 'somewhere in Brazil'.
Humans learning how to think.
Democracy, as it exists in the USA, couldn't exist if people could think. Thats why thinking is discouraged.
To control the way people think, you start by controlling the way they talk.
Hence the push for use of 'latinx' to replace 'latina' and 'latino'...
Its not working out too well in actual Spanish speaking nations.
This were how learning occurrs. Sigh. The tech sector just will never get it. Computational thinking is actually the *problem* we are currently having, it is absolutely the wrong way to teach. I would put the energy and money into tech literacy, instead. It is astonishing to me how people like this miss the mark again, and again, and again. We are already starting to reap what we've sown with a generation that is incapable of critical and abstract thinking. We are not robots, and life is not an algorithm. Disappointing.
substitute 'computational thinking' with 'poetic thinking' and see how much sense it makes. The whole idea of 'making sure every kid leaves school able to code' makes as much sense as 'making sure every kid leaves school able to write poetry'.
Sure, put kids in contact with coding, along with wood work, metal working, cooking, etc. Let the kids find out for themselves which they enjoy and which interests them and then give them opportunities to take them further.
But don't force kids to all leave school with a bunch of compulsory vocations.
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It doesn't matter where the smoke appeared to come from. Abundance of caution.
you want to keep edward snowden from boarding his flight. you plug in on the complimentary power recepticle, 30 secs later, the airport terminal is down,
You think smoking a complimentary USB charging port is going to shut down an airport terminal? You're on drugs.
Oh, but if you put it into the charging port on the airplane and smoke the seatback display! That will surely disable the aircraft, right? Sorry, that aircraft will be fine, it will just have another non-working seatback display that will eventually get replaced.
Smoke in the cabin. Smell of electrical fire. What do you think the airline is going to do?
USB and most other ports already have some ESD/current protection. Without knowing the details of the device hard to say if current standards are enough protection. Someone else pointed out that a bad actor could just as easily hit the device with a hammer if they want to break it, so hard to say if anyone will really need to do anything about it.
Surreptitiously hitting something with a hammer is a lot harder than sneaking something onto a USB port.