Last week I was at an airport in Europe. I was thinking about how Americans were cautioned because certain criminals (and of course "terrorists") might target them. But this part of Europe had a demographic make-up similar to the USA - mostly white folk, plus a good percentage of people of African descent and a few Asians.
I was thinking, how would they know who is American? Then a plane was boarding. I saw this family, six people in total. The parents and all four children (some were as young as 5 or 6) were really morbidly obese. Then I understood how criminals might target Americans. Strange how the news didn't mention this.
Also, it's too bad telling the honest truth so often offends somebody, but they'll get over it. If you are the parent of a five year old, that five year old becomes morbidly obese, and there is no thyroid problem or other solid medical reason for that, you deserve to be tried and convicted of child abuse/child neglect. Destroy your own health all you like, as you are an adult and can make that choice just like you can choose to smoke, but to destroy your child's health from the start like that is just evil.
The other way they could target Americans is the RFID tags in the passports. I heard theres a plot to plant bombs which will only go off if enough US passports are nearby... Better keep a safe distance from other Americans, eh
He had his passport taken away. Therefore he had a passport. Since Americans live in the most awesome country ever there are only two reasons they'd need a passport; one would be to invade less awesome countries (though I'm not certain if members of the US military actually do need passports to go do violence on other countries territory) the other would be for tax evasion.
I'll have to see if I can find some screenshots of that. But its a mod, and isn't that the main reason no one upgrades minecraft servers (because updating mods is so painful)?
Personally, I think that Minecraft needs a lot of work. The gameplay itself is pretty good, but it really needs to be reworked in terms of performance and stability. I was hoping that things would change with MS buying it as they could hire more people to work on it, but I don't think they've actually done anything noteworthy with it yet.
Some anti-aliasing would be nice. I'd like to play it but it does terrible things to my eyes.
I would imagine that, by following the source of a 'signal' upstream it should be possible for a police force to use this to home in on every drug user in a city.
In the USA I wouldn't imagine that sampling the sewage would require any kind of warrant?
And once they can say that the sewage line from *this* house contains traces of *these* drugs its probable cause, DEA raid etc.
So, where are all the environmentalists demanding we build integral fast reactors as fast as we can?
There are actually quite a number of environmentalists who have suggested that we should use nuclear power in order to get off of fossil fuels. I suspect a lot of the problem is political. There are still a lot of people with an irrational fear of nuclear power on one side of the issue, and on the other side there are people who support fossil fuels just to say "fuck you" to "the hippies". And that's before you even get into the lobbying and propaganda from fossil fuel producers.
It's an uphill battle to do anything, even if it completely makes sense and has broad support, because there are always ignorant people and entrenched interests.
I am SO looking forward to my nuclear powered self-driving flying car!
This is the shit that Saddam Hussein was stamping down.
The Middle East has never been at peace and never will. I wish we'd stop meddling and let them solve their own problems their own way and if we don't like it, well tough shit.
The problem is there is such a history of animosity (and long memories) in the Middle East that the only way a group can maintain peace in a state is by brutally clamping down on other religious/ethnic groups. So, when the ruling group is removed from power (by force/election/death of monarch or dictator/etc) and another group gains power, they are thinking "hell yeah, it's our turn, time to get even!". Unfortunately this cycle won't stop until they get sick of the bloodshed and try to work together. But "peace" bought through oppression like Saddam or Assad or Gaddhafi is only a temporary stopgap pushing the problems down the road, and the peace of a dictator is worse than open conflict because it just increases the pressure even more, so when things blow up they blow up bigger.
The middle eastern cultures elevate revenge to a core principle. Its one of the most important things to those people, no slight can be left unavenged, any insult or offence must be punished as harshly as possible. Tit-for-tat can't be allowed to stop or their cultures would just implode.
I might speculate that many Christians feel a sense of kinship to Jews
This is actually a rather recent phenomenon. There was a time when you would see "No Dogs or Jews" signs in businesses in every part of the US. And I'll bet you the people who put those signs in the window believed they were good, faithful Christians.
Even the notion of a "Judeo-Christian" culture is relatively recent, and was first used in the 1950s.
And the first official ally of the United States was a Muslim country. Morocco was our first ally and remains our closest, most faithful ally in the Middle East. Unlike Israelis, you don't hear about Moroccans spying on the US and selling US intelligence secrets.
A lot of fundamentalist Christians see themselves as a Jewish sect. This is despite the fact that, according to orthodox Judaism, Jesus is being boiled in excrement for his crimes against Judaism whereas Jesus is revered in Islam.
There are tons of natural languages, ie not Esperanto, which could easily replace English in terms of easy grammar and pronunciation. Theres no need to invent another one.
The problem is that English, a true bastard of a language in every sense of the word, has become the 'Lingua Franca' of the modern age. Its really sad because English is so very very fucked up.
Dont be a dick. English is the most beautiful language, and it keeps getting better. It needs no fixing and iIts not going anywhere. So get used to it [if you haven't already].
Yes, English is a special snowflake of a language.
I'm glad I'm a native speaker because learning it as a second language would surely give anyone a headache.
There are tons of natural languages, ie not Esperanto, which could easily replace English in terms of easy grammar and pronunciation. Theres no need to invent another one.
The problem is that English, a true bastard of a language in every sense of the word, has become the 'Lingua Franca' of the modern age. Its really sad because English is so very very fucked up.
But surely to be an accessory to a murder there must first have been a murder and I doubt that, in the USA, the police could possibly ever commit murder (or at least be charged with murder...).
Seriously, 4k is already overkill in most situations. 8k is just fetishism. And it may well be worse, as all those pixels have to be controlled somehow.
Some of Apples best customers are also audiophiles and BMW drivers. This just fits the pattern perfectly.
And if anyone is injured or killed, then accessory to attempted murder or murder.
If any property is damaged, full liability right up to taking your pension, property and garnishing of wages.
I'm not sure it would count for accessory to murder. That would require that if a cop killed someone then that would be murder and the 'swatter' would then be an accessory to this crime. However, at least in the USA, if a cop kills someone thats not even a crime...
Agree. A race track up Pike's Peak, once paved, is exactly the same as the 1,000 other race track's up Mountain's like Pike's Peak. The track up Mount Kilimanjaro is impressive. So is the one up Mount Everest. Hopefully, they won't pave those tracks or they'll be as dumbed down and easy as the Pike's Peak hill climb. *sigh* I'm gonna go watch some NASCAR and pine for the gool ol' days.
In his autohagiography, 'The Confessions of Aleister Crowley' he writes that when Europeans first started trying to climb in the Himalayas they basically had to actually learn to mountain-climb for the first time; all the mountains in the Alps were well marked, almost paved footpaths up the mountains with no challenge at all. No-one knew how to climb the mountains in the Himalayas, it was entirely new. (Yes, Aleister Crowley was a pioneering mountaineer).
How about a race up an arbitrary mountain, picked at random from a hat a few days before the event, with no limitations on entrants except that they be powered by wheels in contact with the ground.
The halting probability is much more interesting; a number within the set of real numbers which can never be found by any algorithm or computation. Its proof that the set of real numbers is larger than the set of natural numbers. All natural numbers can be found by computation.
I agree. I felt so sorry for Natalie Portman in Episode III. "Oh Ani! YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART!" Seriously. I cringe. That is no one but the director.
Watch Natalie Portman in Black Swan. She is utterly brilliant.
Not that I hate Star Wars. Far from it. The broad story arcs echo many ancient myths and stories. George Lucas has said that he read Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" which surveys many ancient myths for commonality. The idea of a young boy escaping his mundane life to find his "hero's journey" is primal, as is the story of a son of facing the sins of his father. In my mind these things elevate Star Wars into the pantheon of cinema, in spite of the horrific dialog.
If your developers are really excited about the stuff they are doing then chances are the ops people looking after the 'finished product' (note the quotes, please) are going to have 'exciting' jobs (again, quotes).
You are ignoring that homosexuality is between consenting adults (the type that is legal anyway - homosexual rape isn't legal for example). Whereas bestiality and pedophilia are not. Which is a pretty significant difference making your "only difference" claim absurd.
I'm not so sure.
There could be an argument that many homosexuals are suffering from a form of sexual addiction and therefore they cannot appropriately consent to sex (because of diminished responsibility due to their addiction).
Also theres plenty of evidence that interspecies sexual relations can occur with consent and it certainly occurs quite a lot in nature (there are LOTS of hybrids out there, in the wild).
Then they should be issued to the public who can't seem to stop shitting themselves every time there is an incident. Frankly I think planes are victims of their own success, so safe that crashes are too unusual and people can't handle it makes them freak out more.
Fact is when this happens it is major international news. That right there tells you something. This is not even worth the time we have spent talking about it, never mind wasting time playing musical chairs every time someone has to take a piss.
I tend to agree with you. The level of squeamishness in modern Western culture is truly sickening.
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Speaking of the characteristics of America...
Last week I was at an airport in Europe. I was thinking about how Americans were cautioned because certain criminals (and of course "terrorists") might target them. But this part of Europe had a demographic make-up similar to the USA - mostly white folk, plus a good percentage of people of African descent and a few Asians.
I was thinking, how would they know who is American? Then a plane was boarding. I saw this family, six people in total. The parents and all four children (some were as young as 5 or 6) were really morbidly obese. Then I understood how criminals might target Americans. Strange how the news didn't mention this.
Also, it's too bad telling the honest truth so often offends somebody, but they'll get over it. If you are the parent of a five year old, that five year old becomes morbidly obese, and there is no thyroid problem or other solid medical reason for that, you deserve to be tried and convicted of child abuse/child neglect. Destroy your own health all you like, as you are an adult and can make that choice just like you can choose to smoke, but to destroy your child's health from the start like that is just evil.
The other way they could target Americans is the RFID tags in the passports. I heard theres a plot to plant bombs which will only go off if enough US passports are nearby... Better keep a safe distance from other Americans, eh
How does that relate to the above?
He had his passport taken away. Therefore he had a passport. Since Americans live in the most awesome country ever there are only two reasons they'd need a passport; one would be to invade less awesome countries (though I'm not certain if members of the US military actually do need passports to go do violence on other countries territory) the other would be for tax evasion.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/...
I'll have to see if I can find some screenshots of that. But its a mod, and isn't that the main reason no one upgrades minecraft servers (because updating mods is so painful)?
Personally, I think that Minecraft needs a lot of work. The gameplay itself is pretty good, but it really needs to be reworked in terms of performance and stability. I was hoping that things would change with MS buying it as they could hire more people to work on it, but I don't think they've actually done anything noteworthy with it yet.
Some anti-aliasing would be nice. I'd like to play it but it does terrible things to my eyes.
Nazi Germany and their zeal for recording pretty much any and every single one of their crimes.
They thought they were Right, and so they were just recording history.
Israel certainly learned from the mistakes of the Nazis.
They don't record their crimes?
How can it be possible to commit genocide against a people who don't even exist? There isn't even a crime to record.
Nazi Germany and their zeal for recording pretty much any and every single one of their crimes.
They thought they were Right, and so they were just recording history.
Israel certainly learned from the mistakes of the Nazis.
The difference is that this can be easily automated and done in bulk.
I would imagine that, by following the source of a 'signal' upstream it should be possible for a police force to use this to home in on every drug user in a city.
In the USA I wouldn't imagine that sampling the sewage would require any kind of warrant?
And once they can say that the sewage line from *this* house contains traces of *these* drugs its probable cause, DEA raid etc.
So, where are all the environmentalists demanding we build integral fast reactors as fast as we can?
There are actually quite a number of environmentalists who have suggested that we should use nuclear power in order to get off of fossil fuels. I suspect a lot of the problem is political. There are still a lot of people with an irrational fear of nuclear power on one side of the issue, and on the other side there are people who support fossil fuels just to say "fuck you" to "the hippies". And that's before you even get into the lobbying and propaganda from fossil fuel producers.
It's an uphill battle to do anything, even if it completely makes sense and has broad support, because there are always ignorant people and entrenched interests.
I am SO looking forward to my nuclear powered self-driving flying car!
This is the shit that Saddam Hussein was stamping down.
The Middle East has never been at peace and never will. I wish we'd stop meddling and let them solve their own problems their own way and if we don't like it, well tough shit.
The problem is there is such a history of animosity (and long memories) in the Middle East that the only way a group can maintain peace in a state is by brutally clamping down on other religious/ethnic groups. So, when the ruling group is removed from power (by force/election/death of monarch or dictator/etc) and another group gains power, they are thinking "hell yeah, it's our turn, time to get even!". Unfortunately this cycle won't stop until they get sick of the bloodshed and try to work together. But "peace" bought through oppression like Saddam or Assad or Gaddhafi is only a temporary stopgap pushing the problems down the road, and the peace of a dictator is worse than open conflict because it just increases the pressure even more, so when things blow up they blow up bigger.
The middle eastern cultures elevate revenge to a core principle. Its one of the most important things to those people, no slight can be left unavenged, any insult or offence must be punished as harshly as possible. Tit-for-tat can't be allowed to stop or their cultures would just implode.
This is actually a rather recent phenomenon. There was a time when you would see "No Dogs or Jews" signs in businesses in every part of the US. And I'll bet you the people who put those signs in the window believed they were good, faithful Christians.
Even the notion of a "Judeo-Christian" culture is relatively recent, and was first used in the 1950s.
And the first official ally of the United States was a Muslim country. Morocco was our first ally and remains our closest, most faithful ally in the Middle East. Unlike Israelis, you don't hear about Moroccans spying on the US and selling US intelligence secrets.
A lot of fundamentalist Christians see themselves as a Jewish sect. This is despite the fact that, according to orthodox Judaism, Jesus is being boiled in excrement for his crimes against Judaism whereas Jesus is revered in Islam.
There are tons of natural languages, ie not Esperanto, which could easily replace English in terms of easy grammar and pronunciation. Theres no need to invent another one.
The problem is that English, a true bastard of a language in every sense of the word, has become the 'Lingua Franca' of the modern age. Its really sad because English is so very very fucked up.
Dont be a dick. English is the most beautiful language, and it keeps getting better. It needs no fixing and iIts not going anywhere. So get used to it [if you haven't already].
Yes, English is a special snowflake of a language.
I'm glad I'm a native speaker because learning it as a second language would surely give anyone a headache.
There are tons of natural languages, ie not Esperanto, which could easily replace English in terms of easy grammar and pronunciation. Theres no need to invent another one.
The problem is that English, a true bastard of a language in every sense of the word, has become the 'Lingua Franca' of the modern age. Its really sad because English is so very very fucked up.
Sure and I agree with you.
But surely to be an accessory to a murder there must first have been a murder and I doubt that, in the USA, the police could possibly ever commit murder (or at least be charged with murder...).
Seriously, 4k is already overkill in most situations. 8k is just fetishism. And it may well be worse, as all those pixels have to be controlled somehow.
Some of Apples best customers are also audiophiles and BMW drivers. This just fits the pattern perfectly.
And if anyone is injured or killed, then accessory to attempted murder or murder.
If any property is damaged, full liability right up to taking your pension, property and garnishing of wages.
I'm not sure it would count for accessory to murder. That would require that if a cop killed someone then that would be murder and the 'swatter' would then be an accessory to this crime. However, at least in the USA, if a cop kills someone thats not even a crime...
The language is called Latin. Everybody ruined it.
The language is called Indoeuropean. Its been ruined longer than theres been a Latin...
Agree. A race track up Pike's Peak, once paved, is exactly the same as the 1,000 other race track's up Mountain's like Pike's Peak. The track up Mount Kilimanjaro is impressive. So is the one up Mount Everest. Hopefully, they won't pave those tracks or they'll be as dumbed down and easy as the Pike's Peak hill climb. *sigh* I'm gonna go watch some NASCAR and pine for the gool ol' days.
In his autohagiography, 'The Confessions of Aleister Crowley' he writes that when Europeans first started trying to climb in the Himalayas they basically had to actually learn to mountain-climb for the first time; all the mountains in the Alps were well marked, almost paved footpaths up the mountains with no challenge at all. No-one knew how to climb the mountains in the Himalayas, it was entirely new. (Yes, Aleister Crowley was a pioneering mountaineer).
How about a race up an arbitrary mountain, picked at random from a hat a few days before the event, with no limitations on entrants except that they be powered by wheels in contact with the ground.
The halting probability is much more interesting; a number within the set of real numbers which can never be found by any algorithm or computation. Its proof that the set of real numbers is larger than the set of natural numbers. All natural numbers can be found by computation.
aleph null does not equal aleph one.
To my mind, the difference is clear. It's Lucas.
I agree. I felt so sorry for Natalie Portman in Episode III. "Oh Ani! YOU'RE BREAKING MY HEART!" Seriously. I cringe. That is no one but the director.
Watch Natalie Portman in Black Swan. She is utterly brilliant.
Not that I hate Star Wars. Far from it. The broad story arcs echo many ancient myths and stories. George Lucas has said that he read Joseph Campbell's "Hero with a Thousand Faces" which surveys many ancient myths for commonality. The idea of a young boy escaping his mundane life to find his "hero's journey" is primal, as is the story of a son of facing the sins of his father. In my mind these things elevate Star Wars into the pantheon of cinema, in spite of the horrific dialog.
http://redlettermedia.com/plin...
If your developers are really excited about the stuff they are doing then chances are the ops people looking after the 'finished product' (note the quotes, please) are going to have 'exciting' jobs (again, quotes).
Well then, let's see your birth certificate!
Grammar alludes you!
In Soviet Russia, grammar nazis you!
Abuse is a matter of perspective. Anyone can claim any action (or inaction) is a form of abuse.
I wish I could paste a jpg into this.
Anyhow it says "Your rights end where my feelings begin"
Many people affect 'offence' just to get some political capital.
You are ignoring that homosexuality is between consenting adults (the type that is legal anyway - homosexual rape isn't legal for example). Whereas bestiality and pedophilia are not. Which is a pretty significant difference making your "only difference" claim absurd.
I'm not so sure.
There could be an argument that many homosexuals are suffering from a form of sexual addiction and therefore they cannot appropriately consent to sex (because of diminished responsibility due to their addiction).
Also theres plenty of evidence that interspecies sexual relations can occur with consent and it certainly occurs quite a lot in nature (there are LOTS of hybrids out there, in the wild).
Then they should be issued to the public who can't seem to stop shitting themselves every time there is an incident. Frankly I think planes are victims of their own success, so safe that crashes are too unusual and people can't handle it makes them freak out more.
Fact is when this happens it is major international news. That right there tells you something. This is not even worth the time we have spent talking about it, never mind wasting time playing musical chairs every time someone has to take a piss.
I tend to agree with you. The level of squeamishness in modern Western culture is truly sickening.